All content Archive | April 2020

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April 30th
- Farming Life: The cock on the brink of death, saved by spending a night in the Aga
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Super-luxury board games for the bored and well-heeled
- A home in East Anglia bursting with character, with grand gardens, open plan living space and its own moat
- How to make perfect scotch eggs, for the ideal back garden picnic
April 29th
- 'You can't furlough a cow': Farmers urge with public to buy direct to keep them in business during lockdown
- The Forest of Bowland: One of the last wild swathes of England, still resisting taming in the 21st century
- Country Life 29 April 2020
April 28th
- How to enjoy bluebells from home — and how to plant them to enjoy your own in future years
- The restoration of John Soane's museum 'which raised the standards for the re-creation of a historic interior'
- A dreamlike castle for sale set on a hillside overlooking a sweep of river in one of the most beautiful areas of Britain
- Rosie and Jim: 'I have baked myself out of my jeans'
April 27th
- The 'root and branch' renovation of a dining room which proves that bold touches of colour can work pretty much anywhere
- A beautiful country house in Devon which you can virtually walk round from the comfort of your home
- My Favourite Painting: Tracy Jones
April 26th
- 19 incredible Scottish castles and estates for sale, from £130,000 to £9.5 million
- The truth about bees: 'I'm a hopeless fan... but plants are cleverer than insects. They have to be.'
- English pointers: The dogs that are full of energy and fun, with a history that includes one of the great canine heroes of the Second World War
- A new ode to Spring, from gambolling lambs to pale wood anemones and the rabbity-nosed velvet of ash buds
April 25th
- A stupendous 18th-century home with gardens that look like they've been borrowed from Versailles, designed by an architect credited as the 'father of wrestling'
- Curious Questions: Why do clocks go clockwise?
- Curious Questions: If not now, when?
- Six unforgettable Highland holidays to get in your diary to help you follow your passions in 2021
April 24th
- Why the future of the kitchen-diner is more diner than kitchen
- Can a £6m house ever be a bargain? A home is for sale on Jersey which might make you wonder
- In Focus: The magnificent de Morgans, one of art's great husband-and-wife duos
April 23rd
- The Cambridgeshire Fens: 'A symbol of human skill and determination from more than 350 years ago'
- The Utterly Inessential Working From Home shopping list: Desks, speakers and magical gizmos from £35 to £8,500
- Three palatial Isle of Man homes for sale — and one millionaire's playground waiting to happen
- A 'serious fish pie recipe' with some fabulous extra surprises for extra texture and taste
April 22nd
- Sandhill Farm House, Petersfield: An educational masterpiece from the founder of the English Gardening School
- A celebration of pheasants, 'some of the most beautiful birds in the world'
- 60 simple sustainability tips to make your home, garden and life better
- Buy one stone-built cottage, get one free, with spectacular views from both
- Country Life 22 April 2020
April 21st
- The Prince of Wales: 'After the suffering and the selflessness we are witnessing, we cannot allow ourselves to go back to how we were. This is a moment in history.'
- The life, times and buildings of Sir Edwin Lutyens
- A hopelessly romantic cottage for two in one of the finest villages in the Cotswolds
- Rosie and Jim: The instruments your neighbours are learning, ranked from pleasant ditty to audible hatecrime
April 20th
- Heather burning hiatus ignites great debate: Is burning heather moors counter-productive, or does it stop them becoming a 'timebomb'?
- The breathtaking conversion of a mansion on the edge of the Lake District, complete with marble columns, carved staircases and oil paintings
- My Favourite Painting: Patrick Baty
April 19th
- Alan Titchmarsh: The bright, cheery flower which fired my childhood dreams of becoming a gardener
- Expert dog training tips to help you stop canine cabin fever in lockdown, from a home-made agility course to tasty treats with a difference
- Llandaff Cathedral: The creation, destruction and re-buidling of a monumental, expected and unforgettable building
April 18th
- One of Newmarket's most incredible equestrian properties has come to the market
- Curious Questions: How will we greet each other in a post Covid-19 world?
- 11 breathtaking images of The Gower, the spot so magnificent it inspired the creation of Britain's Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- How to 'garden' in a home that doesn't have a garden, from window box tips and indoor plants to helping out the bees
April 17th
- A drink for all seasons: nine crowd-pleasing, well-priced wines from around the world
- Six ideas to update your house for spring with paints and wallpapers
- 2020 was off to a flying start with country house sales — but what can buyers and sellers expect now?
- In focus: How galleries and art dealers have shifted to showing and selling online
April 16th
- How woods and hedges will transform your land, the countryside and the lives of future generations
- Rosie and Jim: 'Mungo could either be a 12ft python trying to devour the cat, or a six-year-old child with his hand in the cookie jar, and everything in between'
- A 'a symphony in red brick' just outside Guildford offering charm, creature comforts and two swimming pools
- How to make pasta with radicchio, pear, walnut and feta
April 15th
- 'Throughout history, it’s spring that has given humanity the fortitude to survive'
- Surrey rhapsody: The Arts-and-Crafts mansion that was home to Queen drummer Roger Taylor
- Country Life 15 April 2020
April 14th
- Plas Brondanw: The 17th century home where the man who created Portmeirion cut his teeth
- A cleverly converted family home with direct access to the Merrow Downs
- Jason Goodwin: 'There's a hum about the whole house that reminds me of a great ship charting its course through the high seas'
April 13th
- How the Surrey Hills has inspired generations of writers, artists and visionaries
- Five simply magnificent homes for sale in the Home Counties, including a Sussex cottage, palatial Surrey home and a superb house on the banks of the Thames
- My favourite painting: The Rt Revd Graham Usher
April 12th
- The house where a young JFK forged his career has come up for sale in Washington
- Grow your own kale: The seeds to order, when to plant them, and when you can look forward to dishing them up
- If only dogs could talk: Reading the minds of Britain's 11 most popular breeds, from Labradors to Westies
- Oxford Street: How a Roman road evolved via public hangings into the most famous street of shops on the planet
April 11th
- A period manor house in Surrey that's hosted Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth... and Roger Moore
- Curious Questions: How do you survive social isolation? A former Royal Navy submarine commander on the five things you need to do
- Bucket List dreams for life after lockdown, from the dazzling plains of Antarctica to a treehouse in Botswana
- Medwyn Williams, king of giant vegetables: 'A living monument... the greatest of our show growers, a king of long carrots and immaculate cauliflowers'
April 10th
- The greatest children's books that hit the spot for young and old, as chosen by Alan Titchmarsh, Jilly Cooper, Ian Rankin and more
- 'A bathroom should be somewhere you spend time and relax, rather than a purely utilitarian space'
- Beautiful character houses under £400,000, from picture-perfect cottages to a huge stone-built villa complete with Jacuzzi
- In Focus: The genius of Léon Spilliaert — 'If a ghost could paint, this is what it might look like'
April 9th
- Dan Pearson: The years-long task of colonising our woodland with natural blooms, and persuading the woods to cross the water to our home
- The master shoemakers who shod Churchill: 'Demand is through the roof, but it takes six to eight months to make a pair'
- The country home of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his family comes up for sale, along with 111 rolling acres of Sussex
- An unbeatable shoulder-of-lamb shepherd's pie recipe ideal for Easter, as dreamed up by the chefs at Fortnum & Mason
April 8th
- The Utterly Inessential Easter shopping list: Whisky and chocolates, solid-cheese 'eggs' and the madness of Champagne meeting lipstick
- A simple guide to Britain's snails
- Country Life 8 April 2020
April 7th
- Arundel Castle Gardens: 'Sometimes, a garden catches you unawares... the thought keeps recurring: I’ve never seen anything like this before.'
- Raglan Castle: How the last great medieval castle in Britain became a Renaissance palace — and a Civil War ruin
- An idyllic, 600-year-old, Grade II-listed house in the beautiful West Sussex countryside
- Rosie and Jim: 'I’m fairly sure the elderly lady with excellent hair doesn't usually winch her shopping up through a second floor window'
April 6th
- Focusing on quality in troubling times
- Britain's best interior designers on the paint colours you just can't go wrong with
- Three homes across the world as seen in Country Life, from equestrian's dream to Greek paradise
- Why gardeners should keep buying plants online — and seven of the most trustworthy nurseries
- My favourite painting: Martin Waller
April 5th
- The Queen's coronavirus message in full: 'If we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it'
- Six great homes in London plus a classic country house within commuting range, as seen in Country Life
- The 'secret flowers' that live for half a millennium, and bloom like nothing else on earth
- The dogs of Country Life: The labradors, terriers and teddy bears that we call family
- Discovering Owletts, the family home of Imperial architect Sir Herbert Baker
April 4th
- A Georgian jewel: One of the few complete townhouses remaining on Bath's Royal Crescent has come up for sale
- The hotels that found fame on the silver screen — with a little help from James Bond, Marilyn Monroe and more
April 3rd
- Six simple ways to add character, style, drama and warmth to your bathroom
- Bring a little luxury to lockdown: Hampers, Michelin-starred takeaways, and wine tasting via videoconference
- An irresistibly pretty coastguard cottage only accessible by boat — yet just a few splashes of an oar from the pub
- In Focus: The six ‘poems in paint’ by Titian that are in the same room for the first time in 500 years
April 2nd
- Snow, rubber gloves, lubricant gel... and moments of wonder and joy: The reality of lambing in winter
- The Utterly Inessential Spring Shopping List: A few of life’s little luxuries to brave the strange time between winter and summer
- An idyllic Georgian house in the Cotswolds with grace, grandeur and endless views
- How to make Nathan Outlaw's asparagus with fried sourdough breadcrumbs
April 1st
- Rosie and Jim: 'The robin has probably been here for years; I’ve only just noticed him. He’s probably as curious as I am'
- An ode to the worm: ‘The intestines of the earth‘, 6,000 species, 600 million years old and undeniably valuable
- An old Victorian coach house in Suffolk with a Grade-II listed vegetable garden
- Country Life 1 April 2020