All content Archive | January 2025

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January 31st
- What happens to an A-list ski resort when it stops getting snow? In Megève, they've done amazing things in figuring it out
- The Catch-22 that's clogging up the housing market? The over-50s sitting in half-empty houses while young families struggle to find homes that are big enough
- The £40 car boot painting that might just be a long-lost Van Gogh worth more than £10 million
- The green Gable House: A family home in Hampshire that even we can't believe is only 15 years old
- Dawn Chorus: The Serpentine Pavilion names their 2025 designer, political activism comes to Margate and Rolls-Royce make nesting boxes for mice
January 30th
- A decadent savoury tart that makes the most of seasonal curly kale
- Best country houses for sale this week
- The Bordeaux Bullet, Mr Universe, The Friendly Ghost and The White Wizard: The Six Nations stars to keep an eye on in 2025
- Dawn Chorus: The mysterious miracle of the Cotswolds garden where 5 million snowdrops sprang up spontaneously, plus a Royal baby and our quiz of the day
January 29th
- Ten stunning character properties for sale at under £400,000
- The farmers who embrace the right to roam: 'Farming can be isolating... it’s really nice when we get people through the yard'
- Dawn Chorus: Lonely bat finds love, Britain's best sheep crowned, and the local theatres at risk of closure
January 28th
- The Brontës original family home has come up for sale with a £380,000 price tag
- Country Life 29 January 2025
- This week's issue of Country Life — and how to subscribe or get your copy
- Dawn chorus: London’s ‘White House’ sells for £139 million, WNU pops up in Scotland and our quiz of the day
January 27th
- Salmon fishing and other stories, with Marina Gibson
- How to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen
- The dance more complex than the most elaborate mating ritual: Or, how to buy a new car
- More than a quarter of parents 'bend rules or even lie' to get their children into the right school
- Dawn Chorus: An 11-bedroom castle in Sussex up for sale at just £1 million, plus the world's poshest festival and a mind-blowing fact for the day
January 26th
- Six superb homes, from the picturesque to the palatial, as seen in Country Life
- The winter vegetable that's 'the prince of accompaniments to a joint of meat'
- Moor Park: How one of Britain's great architectural treasures was saved by golf
January 25th
- A £21 million castle that's come up for sale for the first time in 700 years
- From fighting for stockings to flying on the Moon: How nylon changed the world
- Heckfield Place hotel review: A country house hotel with a wow factor spa
- Totally tropical Tresco: The English country garden that brings the tropics to the British Isles
January 24th
- 'Were the soil a jungle, the worm would be its elephant': Why everything you thought about soil is probably wrong
- A wisteria-clad former rectory in Stevenage that used to host Sir Winston Churchill
- Be more squirrel: What you can learn from Britain's favourite woodland animal, plus Valentines for cheapskates and our Quiz of the Day
January 23rd
- 'There seems to be little sympathy, understanding or respect for the kind of work that goes on in the world’s leading horticultural charity': Alan Titchmarsh calls for RHS Wisley compensation
- Right on time: Our Luxury Editor’s favourites from LVMH Watch Week
- An exquisite former vicarage for sale in a charming medieval village that's just outside London — and which has somehow escaped listed building status
- 'Leeks are the unsung hero of winter recipes’: Melanie Johnson's smoky leek and butter-bean sourdough pain perdu
- Dawn Chorus: Shepherd’s hut staycations, living walls and our quiz of the day
January 22nd
- Caisley
- Watling Reclamation
- A classic Arts-and-Crafts house with 4,000sq ft, superb gardens and endless character, just 20 minutes from central London
- Hampshire better to visit than the Galapagos Islands? It's not so crazy as you might think
- Freddie Mercury's London bathroom, perfectly recreated in a family home in Surrey
- Come and work for Country Life
- Dawn Chorus: Rent a house with a shark in the roof, red squirrels run riot in Yorkshire and superstitious planning enforcement
January 21st
- A gorgeous home in one of England's most sought-after villages, which offers an easy way in to country house life
- Country Life 22 January 2025
- Opinion: The countryside is too loud
- Dawn Chorus: How the Lottery is protecting our heritage, David Hockney's biggest exhibition yet, and Lewis Hamilton's first day at Ferrari
January 20th
- Unputdownable: 12 page turners to see you through the rest of the winter
- A 12,000sq ft Georgian fantasy mansion has come up for sale in the rolling hills of Wiltshire
- Joe Gibbs: 'There are many reasons why a chap might be found crawling across the floor of his London club of an evening. In my case, I was in search of a digital hearing aid'
- Dawn Chorus: What our gardens can tell us about our culture, climate and history
January 19th
- Five beautiful country homes for sale from £1.8m to £7.95m, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: The neat planting trick which means I almost never have to do any weeding
- Moor Park: The suburban golf club with an outrageous Baroque masterpiece as a clubhouse
January 18th
- The light at the end of the tunnel is a car club
- A modern home in Kent with an open-plan kitchen and swimming pool, and a built-in fishtank
- Curious Questions: Why do woolly hats have bobbles?
- Chalet Machapuchare: Does France's best ski chalet live up to its reputation?
- 'Dozens died, and during the 1683 Thames Frost Fair a party of skaters was caught by the wind and blown out to sea': The risky business of skating on thin ice
January 17th
- A country house hotel all of your own in the West Country, with paddocks, pool and a gorgeous kitchen garden
- Style and substance: Why the handkerchief remains a small symbol of civilised behaviour
- Athena: Perhaps the time has come to be more honest about the importance of beauty
- More than a quarter of property sales collapsed in 2024. Here's why.
- Dawn Chorus: Why the Moon matters and Festival of Speed's plan to commemorate 75 years of F1
January 16th
- 'The one thing we'd change? Honestly, nothing.' Why The Mark hotel in New York ticks all the right boxes
- 'Sometimes, it’s about the journey, rather than the destination': The fascinating history of the double-decker bus
- Jewels of the Mediterranean: Luxury multi-generational villa holidays
- Injecting colour, pattern and character into a once-plain sitting room
- A sublime restored Georgian family home in one of north London's most exciting areas
- Dawn Chorus: The train line in Yorkshire named as one of the world's top things to do in 2025
January 15th
- I would like to lie on the Rhamses Bed by Louis Malard and be fed grapes
- Ceiling beams, stone floors and gorgeous gardens at an ivy-clad manor house in one of the most beautiful villages in the Cotswolds
- There's no place like home: How animals find their way back to their owners is a mystery we are still trying to solve
- The test-tube cow, a bit of beaver bother, and the strings of Barbara Hepworth
January 14th
- Minette Batters: 'I naively believed we could help teach our fellow African farmers how to farm. How wrong I’ve been; we have so much to learn from them'
- Country Life 15 January 2025
- A dozen walks to do before you die
- A slice of La Dolce Vita lands at Claridge’s London
- Dawn Chorus: The second-happiest place to live in Britain is a complete bargain, where a dream farmhouse with stables goes for £600k
January 13th
- Epic views, land and a ballroom to die for at a Surrey Hills home created by one of the greatest architects of the Arts-and-Crafts movement
- Tom Parker Bowles: The Lancashire hotpot, a stew 'that's as straight talking as a Bolton costermonger after his third pint of Thwaites Gold'
- The National Trust's big birthday present, and how much does a tuna the size of a motorcycle cost?
January 12th
- 6 glorious country houses for sale in the south of England, as seen in Country Life
- The ultimate joy of winter gardening? Heading for sunnier spots knowing that your garden won't suffer from your absence
- Saints alive: How St Albans Cathedral has entered the 21st century in vibrant style, thanks to sculptors, artisans and dazzling colour projections
January 11th
- Lexus LBX 2025: Where compact luxury meets affordability and economy
- Bonnie banks, cliffs and seas: The top Scottish properties that sold in 2024
- Curious questions: how an underground pond from the last Ice Age almost stopped the Blackwall Tunnel from being built
- ‘Imagine a hotel being built beside Stonehenge': Euphoria Retreat in Greece, where to feel better, you have to journey backwards
- G&T to Gravetye and 'the David Attenborough of garden visiting': The Garden tours to book in 2025
January 10th
- A Suffolk sitting room that's a perfect example of how to bring joy and warmth
- Patrick Galbraith: Lisbon, Voices of the Old Sea and some dodgy oysters
- 'Like living in an episode of Top Gear': The beautiful rural spots where people use McLarens and Ferraris to pop down to the shops
- Dawn Chorus: The world-famous fashion icon who found global fame in her 90s, beating the January blues and our quiz of the day
January 9th
- The 12 architecture books you should read in 2025, by our architectural editor John Goodall
- Five country houses with glorious open fires to warm up your winter, from £375k to £3.6 million
- Dawn Chorus: A Traitors-style castle at the price of a Shepherd's Bush terrace, the very hungry otter, and Octopus's garden at Chelsea and our Quiz of the Day
January 8th
- The very hungry otter who stunned passers-by in the middle of Stratford
- Would you betray your friends to live in this Traitors-esque castle in Devon? Yes. Yes I would
- Guinness rustling in the Midlands, how to look after a listed building and why oat milk might make you depressed
January 7th
- Country Life 8 January 2024
- 'I’ve come here this evening to experience darkness. I’ve been craving it, the richness and peace of it, the way you crave silence when you’ve had too much noise'
- A four-bedroom home overlooking Salcombe where you can dream of summers to come
- Dawn Chorus: The former acrobat arena you can now call home, the return of the obelisk and our quiz of the day
January 6th
- Spectacular Scottish castles and estates for sale, starting from under £700k
- Aberdeen Angus, the beef that's the best of all worlds
- Carla Carlisle: 'Writing a weekly column is like being married to a nymphomaniac'
- Dawn Chorus: How to clean a priceless chandelier, a Bohemian rhapsody for sale and our Quiz of the Day
January 5th
- 5 country homes for sale, from £1.575 million to £12 million, as seen in Country Life
- Taste explosions: How to grow micro leaves that pack a serious punch
- How to train a new puppy: Five bits of advice that'll save you days, weeks and months of trouble
- The tale of St Alban: An abbey, a Cathedral, and a martyr so holy that 'his executioner’s eyes popped out of his head'
January 4th
- Animals, obelisks and bare plaster: Country Life predicts what will be hot in interior design this year
- 'People love land': The top estate sales of 2024, from the Duke of Northumberland to first-time farmers
- Curious questions: How a horse on a treadmill almost defeated a steam locomotive
- New Year, new me: Pip Durell goes on a quest to reboot her health at SHA Wellness Clinic
- Villa Frere: The centuries-old garden created by an English diplomat, reclaimed by Nature, and now once again restored by Man
January 3rd
- A sausage, cabbage and lentil tray bake to brighten the dark days of January
- New opening: Inside The PIG’s first Cotswolds hotel — and it has its own pub
- A bohemian paradise is up for sale with pool, stables and endless country charm
- Soft colours and bold geometry inspire this Notting Hill sitting room
January 2nd
- Farmer's Life: Supermarket eggs can be several weeks old. The ones I sell are usually six hours old — but I still get customers who worry because they don't have best-before dates stamped on them
- John Lewis-Stempel: The English village, that beguiling habitat closest to the heart
- A house that comes with 3,500 acres of Loch Lomond National Park
January 1st
- Don't fancy Dry January? Try our list of London's best bars instead
- Country Life 1 January 2025
- Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler