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Country Life's Quiz of the Day, 7 February 2025: 10 head-scratchers to take you into the weekend
By Toby Keel
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Seven of the UKs best Art Deco cinemas that help remind us of what we have (wrongly) long stopped expecting from public buildings
By Amie Elizabeth White
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‘The original plan was just to buy a Land Rover and go on a trip’: Why Tati Reed and a battered Land Rover might be the only honest thing on the internet
By James Fisher
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A fairytale castle peeking above the treetops of Cumbria is for sale at just £2 million
By Annunciata Elwes
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Isabel Bannerman: The year’s first and most abundantly cheery, uplifting and undemanding of winter flowers
By Isabel Bannerman
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Dawn Chorus: Gangster badgers, at home with Sienna Miller, and a fresh slap in the face for first-time buyers
By Toby Keel
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Country Life's Quiz of the Day, 6 February 2025: Britain's strangest flying creature, guess the house price, and eight more questions to test you
By Toby Keel
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PEOPLE & PLACES
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James May: Mushroom gin, real-life Lego houses and what it was like working for Country Life
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How to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen
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Totally tropical Tresco: The English country garden that brings the tropics to the British Isles
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The day that Stonehenge was sold via the pages of Country Life
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Property
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A fairytale castle peeking above the treetops of Cumbria is for sale at just £2 million
By Annunciata Elwes
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Moving to the country with Knight Frank
By Country Life
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A Paragraph 80 house hidden in the rich woodlands of Wadebridge
By Penny Churchill
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Interiors that inspire in a four-bedroom cottage in Hertfordshire
By James Fisher
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Dawn Chorus: The world's highest property has a fittingly sky-high price
By Toby Keel
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A Georgian vicarage that blends idyllic seclusion, village life and a simple commute to the City
By Penny Churchill
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The Catch-22 that's clogging up the housing market? The over-50s sitting in half-empty houses while young families struggle to find homes that are big enough
By Annabel Dixon
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Our expert voices
Interiors
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Freddie Mercury's London bathroom, perfectly recreated in a family home in Surrey
By Arabella Youens
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Injecting colour, pattern and character into a once-plain sitting room
By Arabella Youens
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A Suffolk sitting room that's a perfect example of how to bring joy and warmth
By Arabella Youens
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Animals, obelisks and bare plaster: Country Life predicts what will be hot in interior design this year
By Giles Kime
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Soft colours and bold geometry inspire this Notting Hill sitting room
By Amelia Thorpe
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Knock down or rebuild? Kitchen island or cook's table? The 10 questions to ask when you're doing up a house
By Giles Kime
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The key to a great bathroom? Make it feel more like your sitting room — even to the point of having an armchair next to the bath
By Country Life
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'Other cultures celebrate the elderly. So why do we consign them to beige farms that smell of cabbage and wee?': Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on Changing Rooms, retirement living and growing old disgracefully
By Toby Keel
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LIFE & STYLE
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Chalet Machapuchare: Does France's best ski chalet live up to its reputation?
By James Fisher
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Dawn Chorus: The train line in Yorkshire named as one of the world's top things to do in 2025
By Toby Keel
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I would like to lie on the Rhamses Bed by Louis Malard and be fed grapes
By James Fisher
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There's no place like home: How animals find their way back to their owners is a mystery we are still trying to solve
By Country Life
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COUNTRYSIDE
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Dawn Chorus: Gangster badgers, at home with Sienna Miller, and a fresh slap in the face for first-time buyers
By Toby Keel
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Dawn Chorus: The mysterious miracle of the Cotswolds garden where 5 million snowdrops sprang up spontaneously, plus a Royal baby and our quiz of the day
By Toby Keel
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The farmers who embrace the right to roam: 'Farming can be isolating... it’s really nice when we get people through the yard'
By Jane Wheatley
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Gardens
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'I followed a lorry for miles just so I could ask the driver if I could buy his pot': How Beth Tarling put together her dream terracotta pot collection
By Tiffany Daneff
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Isabel Bannerman: The year’s first and most abundantly cheery, uplifting and undemanding of winter flowers
By Isabel Bannerman
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The winter vegetable that's 'the prince of accompaniments to a joint of meat'
By Steven Desmond
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Totally tropical Tresco: The English country garden that brings the tropics to the British Isles
By Tiffany Daneff
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'There seems to be little sympathy, understanding or respect for the kind of work that goes on in the world’s leading horticultural charity': Alan Titchmarsh calls for RHS Wisley compensation
By Annunciata Elwes
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Alan Titchmarsh: The neat planting trick which means I almost never have to do any weeding
By Alan Titchmarsh
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ART & CULTURE
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Five of the National Trust's most outstanding paintings, as chosen by the curators who care for the charity’s world-class collection
By Rosie Paterson
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The £40 car boot painting that might just be a long-lost Van Gogh worth more than £10 million
By Rosie Paterson
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Country Life's top 10 arts stories of 2024
By Toby Keel
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How 'the best picture in the world' was saved from destruction by a British army officer refused to follow his orders
By Jonny Harris
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Travel
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What happens to an A-list ski resort when it stops getting snow? In Megève, they've done amazing things in figuring it out
By Richard MacKichan
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Heckfield Place hotel review: A country house hotel with a wow factor spa
By Hetty Lintell
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Hampshire better to visit than the Galapagos Islands? It's not so crazy as you might think
By Kate Green
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'The one thing we'd change? Honestly, nothing.' Why The Mark hotel in New York ticks all the right boxes
By Rosie Paterson
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A slice of La Dolce Vita lands at Claridge’s London
By Rosie Paterson
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‘Imagine a hotel being built beside Stonehenge': Euphoria Retreat in Greece, where to feel better, you have to journey backwards
By Mark Hedges
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Food & Drink
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How to use fresh and bold horseradish to liven up salmon
By Melanie Johnson
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Curious questions: Why do we use Seville oranges to make marmalade?
By Jane Wheatley
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A decadent savoury tart that makes the most of seasonal curly kale
By Melanie Johnson
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'Leeks are the unsung hero of winter recipes’: Melanie Johnson's smoky leek and butter-bean sourdough pain perdu
By Melanie Johnson
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Tom Parker Bowles: The Lancashire hotpot, a stew 'that's as straight talking as a Bolton costermonger after his third pint of Thwaites Gold'
By Tom Parker-Bowles
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Aberdeen Angus, the beef that's the best of all worlds
By Neil Buttery
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A sausage, cabbage and lentil tray bake to brighten the dark days of January
By Melanie Johnson
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