Take our Easter issue home and have a great long weekend with Country Life.

Inside:

The Editor’s Country Easter Quiz Can you answer all of our fiendish brain-teasers?

Home Sweet Home: All creatures take as much pride in constructing their houses as we do, observes Simon Lester

Party planning: Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the changing fashions of the perfect bash and Anna Tyzack meets the party planners

George Plumptre takes a tour of the gardens associated with Canterbury Cathedral in Kent

In property: how to dress your house with plants

Simon Swynfen Jervis explores the Roman cabinet at Stourhead, a dazzling trophy of the Grand Tour

Gulls eggs; Vicky Liddell discovers the delights of this delectable egg, gathered in secret and limited by licence