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December 2024
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- December 31st
- December 30th
- December 29th
- A magnificent waterside penthouse in a converted mill on one of Britain's most beautiful stretches of water
- Alan Titchmarsh: 'A stately pile in my part of Hampshire has been on the market for years — but one buyer didn't even make it to the door before getting back in his helicopter'
- Driving Land Rovers blindfolded, cricket in the corridors and sword-fights in suits of armour: The unusual games of the country house
- Country Life's top 10 architecture stories of 2024, from the palace that's 'the stuff of dreams' to a Palladian masterpiece you can rent by the weekend
- December 28th
- December 27th
- December 26th
- December 25th
- December 24th
- 14 of the greatest movie posters in cinema
- An absurdly perfect thatched country cottage, surrounded by a 6,000-acre estate in the heart of Devon, is for sale at just £650,000
- Country Life 25 December 2024
- Country Life's 20 favourite stories of 2024, from elephants and explorers to the country house that came with a free Harrier Jump Jet
- December 23rd
- December 22nd
- 13 country homes for sale, starting from under £375,000, as seen in Country Life
- Charles Quest-Ritson: Walnuts are one of the gardener's greatest pleasures — but you'll have to be ready for the squirrels
- How the humble potato became the most important part of Christmas lunch, and how you can make them crunchier than ever
- 'A robin redbreast in a cage puts all Heaven in a rage': Why this charming little bird is the nation's favourite
- Thomas Hardy and the country house: 'Irregularity is the genius of Gothic architecture'
- December 21st
- A fisherman's cottage in Port Isaac in which you can write the next Great American Novel
- ‘Look out! Look out! Jack Frost is about!’
- The Cavendish Hotel review: An artsy haven on the Chatsworth Estate
- The wine merchant: 'We’re all shattered by the time we close at 3pm on Christmas Eve'
- The special magic of a frozen garden in winter
- December 20th
- The racehorse trainer: 'Christmas Day is the only day of the year that I actually ride a horse'
- Going up? The property market's top experts on what will happen to house prices in 2025
- Tom Parker Bowles: Forget turkey and pigs-in-blankets — the Christmas ham is the king of the yuletide feast
- Code8: Beauty on Burlington Arcade
- Dawn Chorus: The Secret of GK Chesterton, the owl-saving hero who's breaking the internet, and our Quiz of the Day
- December 19th
- The award-winning cook who makes 5,000 Christmas puddings a year, every single one of them by hand
- 'Conflict, back-stabbing, vendettas, false promises and the taking of malicious glee in others’ misfortune': Why Risk is exactly what Christmas is all about
- The interiors of this converted church in Oundle might be all the proof you need that there is a God
- Dawn Chorus: 'The most beautiful car in the world' made both better, and worse, all at once; best mince pies; and our quiz of the day
- December 18th
- Country Life's luxury editor's Christmas gift ideas for children
- Seven perfect Christmas gifts for people who just love beautiful, functional things
- The cathedral choirmaster: 'The thing I love about the Christmas repertoire is the mix of modern and ancient'
- Are posh mince pies worth it? Four of the best on test, from Daylesford, The Newt and more
- The most-viewed house of 2024 is a completely ordinary three-bed semi... with a literally fantastical interior
- The best wedding pictures you'll ever see, what's the point of a law you don't enforce and talking about gin with James May
- December 17th
- December 16th
- Dacia Jogger: Perfection is many things, but most of all it's simplicity
- The Christmas wreath-maker: 'They sell quicker than we can make them'
- A former nunnery that's now a spectacular home, with statues, stained glass and magnificent gardens
- Jason Goodwin: 'When I was 18, I tried playing it cool. I believed next to nothing. I rolled my eyes at solemnity and ceremony. The business of shedding my cool has been years in the making'
- Asian hornets losing ground, Britain's most bashed bridge bashed once again and how to buy a dinosaur
- December 15th
- December 14th
- 'We're accidentally getting a puppy for Christmas — and we need help!' Ben Randall on helping a dog cope with Christmas
- The national average house price is now £300,000 — but that's still enough to find a slice of country life, from Surrey to the Isle of Mull
- Curious Questions: What is a tin tabernacle?
- La Fantaisie hotel review: A boutique hotel in the atmospheric Faubourg Montmartre area of Paris
- 11 things to look out for on a Nature walk in winter
- December 13th
- 'We’ve never experienced anything like this. Nothing has even come close': An incredible home in Wales where you can surf in the morning and go climbing in the afternoon
- How 'the best picture in the world' was saved from destruction by a British army officer refused to follow his orders
- Thirteen really is lucky for some — and specifically for those paying £36,000 less if they're happy to live at No. 13
- Dawn Chorus: The cheetah who's a Far Side cartoon come to life, plus black poplars, country houses and our Quiz of the Day
- December 12th
- 'I don't understand why we have gone backwards': Historic country houses take stock after the budget
- Timberpride
- Minette Batters: 'I don’t believe this Government set out to wipe out the family farm. Yet it will be the consequence'
- Santa's making the kids cry, a vast organ finds its voice and letting the saltwater into Gloucestershire
- December 11th
- A spot of Bovaer: The dairy cow additive that's set tongues wagging isn't bad for anyone — and it's just what we need if we want both milk and clean air
- A Grade I-listed home in Northumberland that is both round and square, with more bedrooms than I can count
- The gift of growing
- Dawn Chorus: Symbiosis in action
- December 10th
- Eastern promise: Mandarin Oriental opens a second London hotel on Hanover Square
- What you'll find inside Country Life's 2024 Christmas Double issue, the biggest in 128 years of the magazine's history
- The 2024 Country Life Christmas Double Issue
- A Brussels sprout recipe that sounds completely bizarre, but will make you glad you didn't wait until Christmas to start eating them
- 'You need to be able to pull up the drawbridge': How to make multi-generational living work
- Dawn Chorus: Santa's sleigh up for sale, the Royal photographs and sketches going on show, plus our Quiz of the Day
- December 9th
- December 8th
- 12 magical homes for sale, including a £600k cottage which will make you want to drop everything and move to the country
- The trees with fruits so sweet and delectable that badgers have been known to batter their way through iron gates to get to them
- What to do when your dog is aggressive towards other dogs while out on a walk
- Stationers’ Hall, one of London's best-kept secrets: 'The observant pedestrian might briefly glimpse it through an archway. Most pass by oblivious'
- December 7th
- Kate Bush's former home is for sale — and it’s a minor miracle of Georgian beauty and modern engineering
- Curious Questions: Did the Victorians pave the way for the first ULEZ cameras in the world?
- The Country Life guide to North Cornwall: Where to go, what to see, where to stay and what to eat
- Rip it up and start again: RHS Wisley's daring reinvention of one of its most famous plantings
- December 6th
- The happiest places to live in Britain, including the gorgeous town that's 'like living in a Constable painting'
- 'Fractals are everywhere, even within the human body: our nervous system, blood vessels and the structure of our brain and lungs'
- A 27-bedroom dream castle dubbed 'one of the loveliest houses in England', with secret doorways, loggia and gorgeous views
- Dawn Chorus: Britain has its own rainforests — and they're disappearing even faster than the ones in Brazil
- Carla Carlisle: We've diversified, modernised and compromise — but now we're farming at a loss again for the first time since the 'Great Betrayal'
- December 5th
- The Christmas Carol songbook that changed the sound of Christmas
- Want to live like the Grinch? You'll need £125,000 and a new roof
- A few of my favourite things: Dame Mary Berry
- 'I could see puffs of condensed breath as he sang. Suddenly, the world felt fine': The wren, a little mite with a mighty heart
- The best house for sale in the world right now, and we're furious that it's not in the UK
- December 4th
- John Lewis-Stempel: Heathland, a place of freedom and unconventionality
- Less packaging please, we're British: Why it's only fair for producers to pay for their own recycling
- The grand master 'paintings' that are actually the most exquisite floral photographs you'll ever see
- Dawn Chorus: The gorgeous English city that's seen the nation's biggest house price rises in 2024, plus Word of the Year, Quiz of the Day and flapjacks for dogs
- December 3rd
- The grandest townhouse in Britain? A majestic home with Art Nouveau billiard room, ballroom and a spectacular glass dome is up for sale at £2.5 million
- Can I just shock you? I quite like the new Jaguar
- Country Life 4 December 2024
- Jonathan Self: November used to be a month of bleak fields and naked trees; this year we had summer flowers in bloom and ate lunch on the terrace
- A five-bedroom West Country house with a heart of glass — and it's just down the road from one of the Cornwall's finest beaches
- Killer whales with salmon hats, the secret lives of eels, the Nutcracker and some still lifes
- December 2nd
- Champagne with fish and chips, and what to drink at Christmas with Oscar Dodd of Fortnum & Mason
- The ultimate Canadian train journey
- Georgian precision and symmetry with eight bedrooms in one of Somerset's best villages
- PoB Hotels
- Dawn Chorus: Churchill's swimming pool, the end of puppy smuggling, Quiz of the Day, and a two tropical islands for the price of one
- December 1st
- 11 magical homes, from under £400,000 to £11.5 million, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: Terracotta has been used for flowerpots for 2,500 years — and it's still by far the best thing to pot your plants in
- What to do when your dog gets attacked by another dog out on a walk
- Into the Woods: The cabins set amid the treetops above the city of Cork
- James I's love affair with Apethorpe, the great country house that 'surpasses all belief'
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