Country Life May 9 2018

Country Life May 9 2018 has advice on heirlooms, carrots and our Country Life International supplement. Find out more:LETTER TO MEGHAN: Carla Carlisle welcomes Royal bride Meghan Markle to the Anglo-American SisterhoodTHE LAY OF THE LANDOWNERS: Rupert Uloth visits four major Cotswold estates to find out how their owners are adapting them for 21st-century lifeBADMINTON HORSE TRIALS: Kate Green looks forward to the horse trials, one of Britain’s greatest sporting traditionsFAR FROM THE MADDENING CROWD: Amelia Thorpe steps into the small, but perfectly formed, world of the shepherd’s hutSubscribe to Country Life – SPRING SALE NOW ONPROPERTY: The finest homes for sale in East Anglia.COTSWOLDS REVISITED: The house in which Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited is on the market, reveals Penny Churchill, Annunciata Elwes finds Cotswold properties for less than £1 million and Arabella Youens examines the north-south divideLIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: Blackpool rock makerFAVOURITE PAINTING: The poet Pam Ayres chooses a dramatic Australian landscapeFINE ART: Duck End House near the Rollrights, home to the art dealer Philip Mould and his wife, is a work of art in itself, says Jeremy MussonIf you loved this issue, why not subscribe to Country Life and get your copy delivered to your door every week?You can also subscribe to the digital edition on your tablet and download your copy every Wednesday.

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Country Life May 9 2018 has advice on heirlooms, carrots and our Country Life International supplement.

Find out more:

HEIRLOOMS: Why it matters that you own some things so fine that you'll want to pass them on to your children – and they'll actually want them in return

PAINSHILL PARK: A Surrey landscape brought back to life.

RAINBOWS: How they've inspired legend, art, superstition and literature for millennia.

CARROTS: How to make them zing with as much flavour as they already have colour.

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PROPERTY: The best homes in Britain for sale.

WATCHES: How to choose a watch good enough to pass on to the next generation.

LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: The lace-maker

FAVOURITE PAINTING: The singer Humphrey Berney chooses a dramatic Norfolk landscape

LAPWINGS: The distinctive peewit sound is becoming rarer and rarer, and our correspondent is concerned.

If you loved this issue, why not subscribe to Country Life and get your copy delivered to your door every week?

You can also subscribe to the digital edition on your tablet and download your copy every Wednesday.

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