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Find out how much of a Sexy Beast you are with Country Life's Quiz of the Day, July 17, 2025
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'Some would argue an unbaked cheesecake isn’t a cheesecake at all. They're wrong': Gill Meller's blackcurrant and lemon cheesecake recipe
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'He unleashed a series of war cries, then intercepted the vole mid-air': There's nothing remotely common about the common kestrel
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101 gold rats, a 'self portrait as a horse' and a tribute to motherhood take home top prizes at this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
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An idyllic home where the forest meets the sea, for sale for the first time in over half a century
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'I found myself in a magical world of a sun-dappled forest, speckled with wild flowers of kaleidoscopic colours and brilliant mosses': Solo walking in the Pyrenees
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'Just look at those stairs. Just as an art form, they are bewitching, like the shell of a nautilus': The lure of buying a stairway to heaven
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‘‘In the silence, it is the most perfect blue I have ever seen. If my goggles weren’t already overflowing with water I might even weep’: Learning to freedive on the sparkling French Riviera with a five-time World Champion
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West London's spent the last two decades as the laughing stock of the style set — here's how it got its groove back
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‘To this day, it is as attractive as when Hercules first laid eyes on it’: How to escape the crowds on the Amalfi Coast, according to those in the know
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Brat behaviour: The chef behind Shoreditch institution Brat and Soho favourite Mountain is running away to Wales
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An idyllic home where the forest meets the sea, for sale for the first time in over half a century
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'Just look at those stairs. Just as an art form, they are bewitching, like the shell of a nautilus': The lure of buying a stairway to heaven
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Best country houses for sale this week
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A one-of-a-kind waterfront estate with two private beaches is for sale on the same storied American island that Jackie Kennedy, the Obamas and Princess Diana have all visited
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The architect who created the MI6 building only designed a tiny handful of houses — and one of them is now up for sale in one of London's most bucolic spots
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'True waterfront homes are finite... miss one and it could be years before you see another like it again': Why the best waterfront property always hits the spot
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19 charming homes for sale, from picture-perfect cottages to beachside retreats, as seen in Country Life
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21 of the greatest craftspeople working in Britain today, as chosen by the nation's best designers and architects
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The transformative renovation of a Grade II-listed property with an 'unusual footprint'
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I've seen the light: How a dark and gloomy kitchen in the Scottish Borders was reconfigured for 21st century living
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'Comfortable, cosseting and far from the madding crowd': The recently refurbished Cornish cottage that proves Victorian decor is making a comeback
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18 inspiring ideas to help you make the most of meals in the garden this summer
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'These aren't just rooms. They are spaces configured with enormous cunning, artfully combining beauty with functionality': Giles Kime on the wonders of WOW!house 2025
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How the deep-lustre of copper brings period glamour to this kitchen
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The beauty’s in the detail: How English stone specialist Artorius Faber helped to bring Country Life's Chelsea stand to life
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Sophia Money-Coutts: Is there even any point in setting an out of office, these days?
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The teeny tiny car that you absolutely don’t need, but will absolutely want this summer — and it has an inbuilt shower
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‘It only remains for our descendants to curse our impotence and laissez-faire’: Only four photographs of a storied London townhouse survive inside the Country Life archive — and it was brutally demolished not once, but twice
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You can’t always rely on the Great British summer — but you can rely on its watches
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The 'greatest battle for 300 years': England's great estates face up to a green future
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'He unleashed a series of war cries, then intercepted the vole mid-air': There's nothing remotely common about the common kestrel
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The truth about P.G. Wodehouse: Robert Daws on playing England's greatest comic writer
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Five British gardens have a starring role on the New York Times's list of 25 must-see gardens — here are the ones they forgot
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The garden created by a forgotten genius of the 1920s, rescued from 'a sorry state of neglect to a level of quality it has not known for over 50 years'
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Alan Titchmarsh: My garden is as pretty as I've ever known it, thanks to an idea I've rediscovered after 50 years
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The Hollywood garden designers who turned their hand to a magical corner of Somerset
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Sarah Raven: The flowers I have that are flourishing superbly, despite the battering heat
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The 'Rose Labyrinth' of Coughton Court, where 200 varieties come together in this world-renowned garden in Warwickshire
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101 gold rats, a 'self portrait as a horse' and a tribute to motherhood take home top prizes at this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
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‘One of the most effective pieces of propaganda ever made’: the Bayeux Tapestry heads to Britain for the first time in almost a millennium
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‘They remain, really, the property of all of those who love them, know them, and tell them. They are our stories, the inheritance of the people of Scotland’: The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
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Canine muses: Lucian Freud's etchings of Pluto the whippet are among his most popular and expensive work
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'I found myself in a magical world of a sun-dappled forest, speckled with wild flowers of kaleidoscopic colours and brilliant mosses': Solo walking in the Pyrenees
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Beyond Royal Portrush: Castles, country houses and ancient towers in the other dimension of golf in Ireland
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‘To this day, it is as attractive as when Hercules first laid eyes on it’: How to escape the crowds on the Amalfi Coast, according to those in the know
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The 'strikingly beautiful, authentic and innovative' Highland castle that's been saved for the ages, and available to rent by the weekend
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Jnane Rumi, Marrakech, hotel review: 'The most talked about opening this year — and for good reason'
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‘‘In the silence, it is the most perfect blue I have ever seen. If my goggles weren’t already overflowing with water I might even weep’: Learning to freedive on the sparkling French Riviera with a five-time World Champion
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'Some would argue an unbaked cheesecake isn’t a cheesecake at all. They're wrong': Gill Meller's blackcurrant and lemon cheesecake recipe
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Tom Parker Bowles: This 90-year-old Italian restaurateur makes the world's best sorbet and granita
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Brat behaviour: The chef behind Shoreditch institution Brat and Soho favourite Mountain is running away to Wales
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The last miracle of St Boswell? How a Scottish potato field became the world's least-likely producer of sparkling wine
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How to make The Connaught Bar's legendary martini — and a few others
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Gill Meller's tomato, egg, bread and herb big-hearted summer salad
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Sophia Money-Coutts: Why clinking glasses and saying ‘Cheers!’ is a tiny bit embarrassing
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