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Comment & Opinion
Agromenes: From the big things to the little things, there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful
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The Finer Things
The £7,500 peacock that brings grace, elegance and beauty... but without the noise and the defecation
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Property
The average homeowner in the UK is sitting on a huge nest egg
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News
The Eden Project's rarest plant is destined to take its own life
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Property
Need a bit of space? Five estates for sale, from five acres to 1,300, as seen in Country Life
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Nature
Trees of God: The story of the mighty cedar
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Travel
Getting lost in the woods: The Cotswold hotel that puts you up and in the trees
Property
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'One of the finest homes on the Kent coast' has come up for sale with a £4 million price tag
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A classic Queen Anne country house that's so close to the City that you can even see the skyscrapers
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Best country houses for sale this week
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Three bedrooms under thatch that featured in Midsomer Murders
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If I could, I wood: Beat the Christmas rush by buying your own tree farm
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In with the old, in with the new: a seven bedroom Arts-and-Crafts house in Hampshire that's six years old
Interiors
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Interiors
Tea and sympathy: What the world of interiors owes to Geoffrey Bennison
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News
The dog that costs £120,000, the definition of English style, great balls of fire and the Quiz of the Day
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Interiors
'It’s a slow-cooked, nourishing soup with 1,000 lovely ingredients swirling within it. Each has its own special contribution. The only thing none of us have ever been able to stand is when the ingredients are all new': Ben Pentreath on English style
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The Country Life Podcast
'We talk about life's big questions with people who probably thought they were just coming in to discuss the redecoration of their house': Nicole Salvesen and Mary Graham on the Country Life Podcast
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Dogs & Animals
How to deal with a dog that's stronger than you are — especially when it runs off when it gets excited
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Architecture
Ptolemy Dean: The magic that happens when you stop to draw a place, instead of just taking a photograph
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Motoring
The McLaren Arura Spider: A hybrid triumph that carries on a rich British tradition
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Architecture
How the original Euston Station destroyed in one of the greatest acts of cultural vandalism Britain has ever seen
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Food and Drink
'A British comfort-food classic, it soothes and satisfies in equal measure': Tom Parker Bowles and the perfect cottage pie
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Travel
The Store review: Oxford’s newest luxury hotel on the site of the old department store, Boswells
Nature
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'There are whole fields that are 100% taxpayer funded NOT to grow crops for people to eat'
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Opinion: The doom-laden terminology of conservation campaigners is dragging us down — it's time we embraced some optimism
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John Lewis-Stempel: The deer parks that came to define us
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Mud, glorious mud: Why we should get down and dirty in our wet earth
Travel
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Is it a farm? A luxury hotel? The Outbuildings are a bit of both, and a beautiful weekend away that feels worlds away from reality
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Knead a rest? Rent a house on the street made famous by Ridley Scott's Hovis advert
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'I have tasted ecstasy and felt peace': The Retreat at the Blue Lagoon, where the Northern Lights dance
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More Champagne, madam? The beautiful train journeys that bring back the Golden Age of travel
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Michelin are now giving out 'stars' for hotels as well as restaurants — and the first batch of winners in Britain is an amazing roster of beautiful places to stay
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Gansevoort review: The hotel that helped launch New York’s Meatpacking District to fashionable heights
Cars
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The great electric car conundrum: In 35 years, driving a petrol car will be like driving a steam engine. But is now the time to make the switch to an EV?
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The story of how 007 creator Ian Fleming came to write Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
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We used to fly cars across the English Channel in 20 minutes — why did we stop?
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'Where new money transforms into old, via a century’s worth of luxury automobiles': A report from Monterey Car Week
Food & Drink
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The Dawn Chorus: We tried a Guinness shandy so you don't have to
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The garden fruit that's a blend of strawberry, blueberry and kiwi — and it grows beautifully in Britain
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Wine has been made in Britain for over 1,000 years — so why have we only just turned it into an industry?
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Dessert divine: A pear and saffron clafoutis
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'Handheld heaven: Tom Parker Bowles on the 'baroque symphony' of spicy, sublime Mexican corn
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A fig, honey and walnut cake that's the perfect autumn bake
The Royal Family
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You rang, your majesty? What it was like to be a servant in the Royal Household
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When the King and Queen edited Country Life, by the editor who guided them every step of the way
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A century of Royal Photography is going on show at Buckingham Palace, from Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz
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Fit for a (very small) queen — a dolls' house with running water, electricity and working lifts