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'Hang on — was I just charged 64 quid for some salad, six chicken strips and a quiche the size of a doorknob?'
Lucy Baring heads in to London and feels the cost of inflation.
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Curious Questions: What is it like to sing at a royal coronation in Westminster Abbey?
The choristers at the Coronation are now in their eighties, but recall vividly the day they sang for The Queen, as Andrew Green discovers.
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Jonathan Self on switching banks after 50 years: 'I was in such a fury that it was fully an hour before I came to my senses'
Oh dear — poor Jonathan has had a bit of a time of it. We'll leave him to explain more.
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Riling up the FBI, riding motorbikes through pubs and hosing-down amorous couples with a fire extinguisher: Farewell to a true legend of the West Highlands
Joe Gibbs waves goodbye to Chris Main, an unforgettable character who, you feel, could have a book written about him. And it's a book that would make an amazing TV series.
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The double-decker bus specially-built to pass beneath a medieval bridge
We take a look at some of the most extraordinary letters sent to the editors of Country Life over the past 125 years.
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Jonathan Self: What I found out when I finally read a book I'd been meaning to read for 40 years
The author finally plucked up the courage to read Montaigne — here's what he made of it.
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Jason Goodwin: 'The older and wiser you get, the better you understand that a few good tools are better than a gallimaufry of clutter'
For this, and other words even more exotic than 'gallimaufry', read on.
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Opinion: Why small family farms should be the future of agriculture in Britain
Many aspects of farming are expanding — and not always in a good way. Jason Goodwin argues that it needs re-balancing, with a return to multiple small family farms, neighbourly cooperation and a bolstering of the local community.
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The plucky villagers battling to save their local village pubs
The fight to save rural pubs is ongoing, but, as Jane Wheatley reports, communities across the country are coming together to secure theirs for the next generation.
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Jason Goodwin: 'Never has London looked so gilded and so monstrous'
Our columnist laments how, in his opinion, the 'slew of foreign cash and universal greed' has changed the capital — and not for the better.
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Curious Questions: Are Mothering Sunday and Mother's Day the same thing?
Mothering Sunday and Mother's Day have distinct meanings, as Martin Fone explains in the latest of his Curious Questions.
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The big thing that Jeremy Clarkson got wrong in Clarkson's Farm
Our agricultural columnist Agromenes is impressed with how Jeremy Clarkson has shed light on modern farming — but there is one glaring omission that he can't forgive.
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Agromenes: The terrible warnings which must make us take food self-sufficiency seriously again
Country Life's agriculture columnist Agromenes on why we need to learn the lessons of the tragic events of the last couple of years.
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Carla Carlisle: The enduring search for Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance
When Carla Carlisle discovered that her path had crossed that of Sir Ernest Shackleton — albeit many years apart — it triggered a lifelong fascination with the explorer, his crew, his ship and his official photographer.
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Curious Questions: How is plant-based milk made?
Martin Fone takes a deep dive into the world of plant-based milks and discovers that the dairy alternatives have been around for a lot longer than we may have thought.
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Jason Goodwin: How to hold the biggest marmalade competition the world has ever seen in the teeth of a gale-force storm
Ahead of the storms which battered Britain a week or so ago, Jason Goodwin filed his dispatches from Dalemain, a beautiful Lake District stately home, where a rather unusual competition was taking place.
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Curious Questions: Why do cats have whiskers?
Martin Fone investigates the all-important role of feline whiskers—including how they contribute to enhancing the species' beauty.
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Jonathan Self: The greatest novel of the 20th century? Maybe, but 'Ulysses' still sent me to sleep within three pages
Jonathan Self looks back on some of the great books published exactly a century ago.
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Curious Questions: Do tear-free onions actually stop you crying when you chop them?
Our intrepid correspondent Martin Fone has put the onions (and his eyes) to the test.
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Jason Goodwin: 'We have enough stuff to last us for a generation. We are at Peak Gubbins. What we do not use and re-use gets plastered across beaches in the South China Seas'
As we head into February, Jason Goodwin looks back at the now-seemingly-distant Christmas festivities — and some deeply disturbing back-of-a-napkin calculations.
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Curious Question: Was St Valentine beaten to it by 1,000 years by the Welsh patron saint of love?
The arrival of St Dwynwen's day on January 25th prompts Martin Fone to recall the tale of a saint whose connection with romance and love predates St Valentine's by centuries.
