Features Archive | September 2020

Filter (89 articles)

Year:

Month:

September 30th
- How to make perfect sloe gin
- Cheddar Gorge and The Mendips AONB: The landscape that inspired ancient cave painters, William Blake and a thousand magnificent photographs
- A list of England's 50 best cities for families that misses the mark — but still makes for fascinating reading
- Country Life 30 September 2020
September 29th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The ultimate face mask, salvation for bored dogs and saving the world, one coffee capsule at a time
- A rare chance to buy one of the finest houses in Chipping Campden, complete with 'lost' attic rooms ripe for rediscovery
- Jason Goodwin: My son built a boat, and now we'll live like millionaires
September 28th
- Q&A: Everything you need to know about buying property in the Cotswolds
- Where I work: Ed Chamberlin, sports broadcaster
- A beguiling stone-built Gloucestershire house set in almost 150 acres of spectacular Cotswold countryside
- My Favourite Painting: Deborah Swallow
September 27th
- Five wonderful country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
- Charles Quest-Ritson: English gardens are the envy of the world, but the countryside is even greater
- West Highland Terriers: The dogs that are clever, funny and inquisitive, with an irresistibly smiley demeanour and a skip in their step
- The Summerhouse at Grimsthorpe Castle, built by Sir John Vanbrugh, restored as a true labour of love
September 26th
- Curious Questions: How did a car-mad racing driver come to invent the speed camera?
- 11 wonderful things to enjoy in the countryside without paying a penny
- Monty Don: The point of gardening? It's to find solace, to be happy, to make beauty, have fun and muck about. How you do it doesn't matter.
September 25th
- A Drink for All Seasons: The world's prettiest gin bottle, plus four more gins ideal for Autumn
- An idyllic Cotswolds farm looking for new owners for the first time in a century
- In Focus: Wood engraving, the peculiarly British artform that's 'the perfect medium for the times we are living through'
September 24th
- St Peter's, Lowick: A 'hidden masterpiece' of a church that boasts one of the finest alabaster tombs in England
- An immaculate and charming Cotswolds home with a picture-perfect poolhouse that brings a little touch of Tuscany
- How to make Shaun Rankin's award-winning treacle tart
September 23rd
- The Suffolk Coast AONB: A landscape shaped by Man and Nature, in peace and in power
- An eight-bedroom, 17,000sq ft Italianate mansion for sale at just £400,000 — and yes, there is a catch...
- Country Life 23 September 2020
September 22nd
- Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Defying the end of summer, a clock that doesn't tick and a dinner party in a box (N.B. dinner not included)
- Charm, space and 1,000 years of history as one of the oldest homes in Britain comes up for sale
- Three blissful homes for sale with truly extraordinary gardens
September 21st
- Nine new interiors ideas for Autumn, from lovely lamps to a fresh take on William Morris
- Curious Questions: Was there a real Granny Smith who first cultivated the apple that bears her name?
- My Favourite Painting: Norman Hammond
September 20th
- A home with the 'finest Georgian interior in Suffolk', with walled garden, pool and its own air strip
- Alan Titchmarsh: 'Gardeners always think that next year will be so much better than last year; farmers always fear it will be worse'
- Curious Questions: Why do we all love tortoises?
- How Edwardian architecture changed through the words and pictures of Country Life
September 19th
- Ponden Hall: The house that inspired Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights comes up for sale
- A weekend in Sherborne, Dorset: What to do, where to eat, where to stay
- 'The Spitfire made everyone who sat in the aircraft’s tiny cockpit feel great, feel godly': A eulogy to the Spitfire, 80 years on from its Finest Hour
September 18th
- An idyllic Suffolk rectory with walled garden, croquet lawn and full of 18th century charm
- In Focus: The Anglo-German pacifist-turned-war artist who famously chronicled Dunkirk — despite not being there
September 17th
- Back on the river at last: 'I start to rediscover muscles in my back I had forgotten existed'
- 10 grand homes for sale in France, including a spectacular 17th century chateau
- Under the dome: The Willow Tree restaurant's innovative approach to post-coronavirus dining
September 16th
- The strange case of the blonde hedgehogs of Alderney
- An Oxfordshire mansion that's been a much-loved family home over three generations and five decades
- Country Life 16 September 2020
September 15th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Back to university special, featuring eight creative ways to blow through your student loans
- Carla Carlisle's A to Z of uncertain times: 'Never talk about money to those who have much more or much less than you'
September 14th
- Focus/20: Design without frontiers
September 13th
- 20 of the best places in England to live if you've a one-or-two day-a-week commute
- How to grow squash: What to plant, where to plant it and the advice that is 'gardening gold, pure and simple'
- Scottie Dogs: Everything you need to know about the wise, brave and sporting Scottish Terrier
- The Fraser Mortuary Chapel, a grand monument that's 'one of the most splendid in Britain'
September 12th
- Curious Questions: How did 'God Save The Queen' become Britain's National Anthem?
- Bere Mill: The riverside gardens in Hampshire created in as natural and as sensitive a way as possible
September 11th
- A Drink for All Seasons: One man's mission to create a better non-alcoholic wine, by a self-confessed 'liquid Willy Wonka'
- In Focus: The French collection of the extraordinary Wilhelm Hansen, Monet and Manet to 'a wall-full of Pissarros'
September 10th
- Craigievar Castle, a Scottish castle full of tales of warriors and ghosts
- A legendary British novelist's Suffolk retreat comes up for sale, including the thatched studio where he wrote
- How to make perfect porridge
September 9th
- Four summits, 12 miles, 5,000ft of climbing — and one unforgettable day in Snowdonia
- Five houses that'll make you want to leave London and head into the countryside
- Keep your eyes peeled for badgers, foxes, martens and more this autumn
- Country Life 9 September 2020
September 8th
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Tea for one, gin for anyone, and the solution for a ponging pooch
- How St James's went from London's 'receptacle for offal and cinders' to its prettiest little city centre village
- Rosie and Jim: 'Why was I always so busy? How did I cope when I wasn’t busy at all?'
September 7th
- Why the party room is making a very 21st century comeback
- A small country house with grandeur on a large scale, and truly spectacular gardens
- My Favourite Painting: Sarah Fletcher
September 6th
- 21 beautiful properties on the market around Britain, as seen in Country Life
- Keith Weed: The new president of the RHS gives a tour of his own garden
- Hospitalfield: The Victorian creation of a visionary patron of the arts
September 5th
- How can the £17 million 'Jane Austen mansion' be demolished? The answer is a lot more complicated than you'd think
- Curious Questions: Why do Scots carry sgian-dubhs with their kilts when donning traditional dress?
- 14 things everyone should know before moving to a village in the country
September 4th
- A fabulous Hertfordshire country house with a swimming pool that's like stepping back into Ancient Rome
- In Focus: The tiny Rembrandt which soared from £650 to almost £15 million in the space of our expert's career
September 3rd
- The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Cute cups, posh pants, and a secret snooker table
- A beautiful houseboat for sale on the Thames, where royalty and pop stars have rubbed shoulders
- How to make Montezuma's chocolate and hazelnut cake
September 2nd
- The Solway Firth AONB: 'The most delicious piece of sea-coast to be found within the limits of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales'
- '2020 will be seen as the year that the five-day-a-week commute died'
- Country Life 2 September 2020
September 1st
- The rise and fall of the smoking room, from essential feature to long-gone relic
- A picture-perfect Georgian home in one of the finest villages in the Home Counties
- Jason Goodwin: 'I suspect the Church of England views parish churches as a burden and a nuisance'