All content Archive | October 2017

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October 31st
- How to make Michael Caines's curried carrot soup
- ‘The most beautiful house in Ireland’ is up for sale
October 30th
- The Turner Twins on trekking to the Green Pole, avoiding disaster and 'fields of plastic stretching for miles'
- A stunning sporting and farming property on the Highland fringe
- How to carve a Halloween pumpkin
- How to put on the ultimate Halloween Feast, from eating eyeballs to drinking blood
- My favourite painting: Ross Murray
October 29th
- Nine stunning houses, including an Edwardian dream home, as seen in Country Life
- 10 famous country superstitions – and is there any truth in them?
- Dog tales: How Coco escaped a dustbin and a ‘kill station’
October 28th
- Is this the perfect retreat for the country sports enthusiast?
- Roast spatchcocked chicken with cavolo nero and pearl-barley risotto
- Why we love the gentle and patrician Clumber spaniel
- 5 ways to create the ideal guest room
October 27th
- A 22-bedroom country mansion for sale complete with golf course, at the price of a Chiswick semi-detached
- The bizarre superstitions that could see you lose out on a dream house – or help you get a bargain
- A fascinating house for sale where you can sleep in your very own jail cell
- The magic of London’s theatres, encapsulated perfectly by Peter Dazeley and Mark Rylance
October 26th
- Eight magnificent country gardens, as created by Paul Bangay
- A proper working farm for sale with 'one of the best shoots on Exmoor’
- The Farlows shooting coat: 'Function comes before fashion'
October 25th
- Beetroot-crust pizza with pesto, beetroot and mozzarella
- Britain's longest-running property saga finally coming to an end: Battersea Power Station to be finished in 2020
- Greatest recipes ever: Sam and Sam Clark's chestnut and chorizo soup
- How the English won the day at the Battle of Agincourt
- Country Life October 25 2017
October 24th
- How weird and quirky period features can be incorporated into modern living
- How to make Frances Quinn’s banoffee tumbler trifle
October 23rd
- Woodside Bay: An Isle of Wight treehouse hideaway with red squirrels, log burner and a hot tub
- Suckling pig: The ultimate epicurean mouthful
- Dream second homes for less than £500,000
- My favourite painting: Guy Goodfellow
October 22nd
- Alan Titchmarsh: How to get your kids (or grandchildren) into gardening
- Top 10 design dilemmas – solved
- The master arrowsmith: ‘Without arrowsmiths, there wouldn’t have been Agincourt’
October 21st
- Five utterly charming properties which will make you want to live in an Arts-and-Crafts era house
- Kinloch Rannoch: A loch-side village with all the Highland essentials – plus its very own Harry Potter station
- The days when farming becomes a race against time - and the bliss of that moment when you win
October 20th
- The childhood home of novelist E. M. Forster goes up for sale
- Golf GTI review: Smart, sporty and ever so slightly yobby. It it the perfect car?
October 19th
- Recipe: Thomasina Miers’s sweet potato shepherd’s pie
- Shropshire’s Baroque masterpiece, with ‘one of the finest interiors in England’, for sale for the first time in half a century
- Five things you probably never knew about gin, in honour of 'International Gin and Tonic Day'
October 18th
- The Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners are inspiring, funny, uplifting – and shocking
- An unbelievably romantic home tucked away in a fairytale wood
- Country Life October 18 2017
October 17th
- How the French impressionists came to fall in love with London
- Tropical fruit and palm trees in deepest Surrey? Why they’re going bananas at Wisley
- Hurricane Ophelia causes destruction, travel chaos and a 'blood orange' sun
October 16th
- London’s 'most light-filled home', which 'rises like a perfectly balanced crystal from the water’s edge'
- The Great Storm of October 1987: Stories and pictures from a night that changed Britain
- My favourite painting: Richard Dorment
October 15th
- 30 magnificent properties, from picture-perfect cottages to converted windmills
- Strand and deliver: Simpson's is back
- The Queen’s House, Greenwich: A royal villa of global significance housing a world-class art collection
- The piano makers: 'Imagine the most complicated it could be then multiply it by 10'
October 14th
- The Townhouse, Stratford review: A beautiful old house transformed into a boutique bolt-hole
- 31 of the most spectacular properties for sale in the world right now
- Rory Bremner on Corbyn, Trump, and watching Wimbledon in front of a log fire
- Sherlock Holmes hits a milestone – test yourself with the ultimate Sherlock quiz
October 13th
- Dreamy Cotswold farmhouse complete with excellent equestrian facilities and a party barn
- A Cotswolds house with the ultimate big boys' toy: Its own aircraft landing strip
October 12th
- 10 sofas, armchairs and stools that will still look good in decades – not just months
- The 10 best restaurants in Yorkshire
- The 'New Victoria': How London SW1 has gone from 'Devil's Acre' to the new prime hotspot
- Do as the Victorians did – visit Thuringia
October 11th
- Perfect pork recipes you won’t be able to resist pigging out in over the winter months
- Country Life October 11 2017
October 10th
- The autumnal fruit that makes a questionable home-made liqueur
- The splendid farm that has been in the Guinness family for almost 60 years
- The Memory Box: An exquisite keepsake made from 100 pieces of timber per square inch
October 9th
- The glorious Hampshire home built in the style of a French château
- The enchanting manor house built from the same stone as Salisbury Cathedral
- My favourite painting: Clementine Cecil
October 8th
- 8 stunning properties, as seen in the pages of Country Life
- On top of the world: The painstaking, intricate art of globe-making
- Why do we all want to live in the countryside?
- Boon & Lane: The only British company still producing handmade hat blocks
October 7th
- Houses with libraries so lovely you’ll feel positively bookish
- Vienna: The mini-break that oozes old-time glamour
- Top 10 driving songs: Country Life's road trip playlist
- Stanford Hall, Leicestershire: A vibrant estate playing an active role in the world around it
October 6th
- The 10 things we love most about Autumn
- The impressive estate that the 1991 Grand National winner called home
- Early bird Christmas tips – the things you need to think about now
October 5th
- At home with Uncle Monty: Design cues from the Withnail and I icon
- Former MoD rehabilitation centre is up for sale
- Crete's Blue Palace hotel: A getaway with a 'Polaroid-perfect view around every corner'
October 4th
- How to make chocolate bundt cake with salted caramel icing
- A stunning estate with a castle, farmhouse and thousands of acres of sporting rights just off the M4
- Country Life October 4 2017
October 3rd
- Charles Spencer on history, Jane Fonda and being 'up to my **** in alligators'
- The house where they took a risk on a young architect named Edwin Lutyens
- Musk Roses: Beautiful flowers, and the 'sweetest smell in the air' by far
October 2nd
- Britain's 100 best Railway Stations: Simon Jenkins on the gateways to our railways
- The 'best house in the world' comes to the market
- My favourite painting: Lucinda Compton
October 1st
- Pumpkin and Butternut Squash soup recipe
- 11 unbelievably beautiful houses, as seen in the pages of Country Life
- The saving of Mount Grace Priory: A ruin revived in Arts-and-Crafts style
- Wild mushrooms: Picking the good, avoiding the bad... and steering clear of the hallucinogenic
- The wheelwrights who’ve been in the business for 700 years – and who work for The Queen