What to do this weekend: November 14
Country Life's guide to some of the best events taking place this weekend, November 14


Exhibitions
November 12-15 ‘A Portrait of Highgrove', Jeremy Houghton, Broadway Gloucestershire. Twenty-five specially commissioned watercolours of Highgrove. Proceeds from sales go to The Prince's Countryside Fund (07981 655515; www.jeremyhoughton.co.uk)
November 13-December 7 ‘Warts and All: The Portrait Miniatures of Samuel Cooper', Philip Mould, 9, Dover Street, London W1. Works by the artist once referred to as ‘Vandyck in little', including a portrait of Oliver Cromwell (020-7499 6818; www.philipmould.com)
Until November 21 ‘Tim Bowen Antiques Winter Exhibition', Aberglasney Gardens, Llangathen, Carmarthenshire. Selling exhibition from the specialists in oak and country furniture (01558 668998; www.aberglasney.org)
Talk ‘Fenland: that sinking feeling', Ely Museum, Ely, Cambridgeshire. With coastal ecologist Dr Pat Doody, in assocation with the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. 7.45pm-9.30pm, suggested donation £2.50 (01353 661339; www.wildlifetrusts.org)
Fair November 19 Heythrop and Countryside Alliance Christmas Fair, Batsford Park, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. 11am-8pm, entry £5 for adults and free for children under 15 (www.countryside-alliance.org)
Book now November 20 Plant Propagation Workshop, Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight. Hands-on demonstrations of techniques. 10am-1pm, tickets £20 for English Heritage members and £25 for non-members (0870 333 1183; www.english-heritage.org.uk) November 26 ‘Twentieth-Century Castles', The Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7. Amicia de Mowbray on modern fortifications and visionary restorations. 6.30pm, tickets £9 (020-7942 2002; www.vam.ac.uk)
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Emma Hughes lives in London and has spent the past 15 years writing for publications including the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Evening Standard, Waitrose Food, British Vogue and Condé Nast Traveller. Currently Country Life's Acting Assistant Features Editor and its London Life restaurant columnist, if she isn't tapping away at a keyboard she's probably taking something out of the oven (or eating it).
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