Country Life 28 November 2018 features our famous advent calendar front cover, with all manner of Christmas goodness inside.
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS: Our annual gift guide promises to help you find something for anyone and everyone.
CANAPES: William Sitwell reveals the winners of Country Life's Canape of the Year competition.
HAMS: Flora Watkins on why a ham is a highlight of the festive season.
HUGH DENNIS: The actor and comedian talks to Country Life.
PARTYING LIKE IT'S 1929: John Goodall goes through the archives to find out about office Christmas parties of the 1920s.
FAVOURITE PAINTING: A work by Winston Churchill gets chosen this week.
FESTIVE CUSTOMS: Octavia Pollock looks at where our seasonal traditions come from.
LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: The stained glass maker.
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THE BIGHOUSE ESTATE: David Profumo pays a visit to this Scottish estate.
INTERIORS: Drinks cabinets, and a look inside Susie Watson's hosue.
ARCHITECTURE: A look at Saltwood Castle in Kent.
BRISKET: Simon Hopkinson's recipe for a slow-simmered salt brisket.
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Can't you hear me S.O.S? Our treasured native dog breeds are at risk of extinctionDo you know your Kerry blue terrier from your Lancashire heeler? A simple lack of publicity is often to blame for some of the UK's native dog breeds flying dangerously low under-the-radar.
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'There are architects and architects, but only one ARCHITECT': Sir Edwin Lutyens and the wartime Chancellor who helped launch his stellar careerClive Aslet explores the relationship between Sir Edwin Lutyens and perhaps his most important private client, the politician and financier Reginald McKenna.
