Spectator

Carla Carlisle was born and raised in Mississippi but now runs a farm in Suffolk, Wyken Hall. In the 1980s she married Sir Kenneth Carlisle and they have a son, Sam. She has written a weekly column, Spectator, for Country Life magazine since March 2004.


Carla Carlisle on Little Dorrit

Thursday, 04 December 2008

Carla finds her house divided by the BBC's adaptation of Little Dorrit

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Spectator on Christmas

Thursday, 27 November 2008

Christmas is going to be different this year, ushered in by end of an age of excess and a new hankering for simplicity says Carla

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Carla Carlisle on Suffolk cattle

Thursday, 20 November 2008

This week, a small herd of Red Polls have arrived at Wyken and Carla is happy because the field looks like a painting by Constable

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Carla Carlisle on Obama

Thursday, 13 November 2008

President-Elect Obama may not have the resplendent eloquence of Lincoln but after a parched eight years, he sounds like a prince of language, says Carla

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