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May 2024
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- May 31st
- A glorious wisteria-clad home on the edge of Exmoor for under £1 million
- A townhouse drawing room as warm and sunny as the personality of its owner
- The best places to commute from Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and even Yorkshire: 'Up here, you can have it all'
- How to eat nettles without being stung, by expert forager John Wright
- May 30th
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- May 28th
- Wisteria hysteria: Nine beautiful objects that celebrate the most beautiful bloom of the season
- Country Life 29 May 2024
- An estate for sale that's older than the Norman Conquest, complete with stone circles, burial mounds and a beautiful country house
- 'The sound of ripping cloth confirmed there was a crisis. And then I remembered I had come as no-knickers-Norma'
- May 27th
- An exclusive chance for Country Life readers to see The George Farrow Collection before it goes under the hammer
- A five-bedroom home on Dartmoor where brown trout flourish, swallows glide and song thrushes lead the dawn chorus
- The 12 most iconic paintings in The National Gallery, by gallery curator Dr Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
- The best places to stop on (and just off) the A303
- Sir Peter Scott: the Olympic sailor, national glider-flying champion and Second World War veteran who became the father of wildfowl conservation
- May 26th
- May 25th
- In Fulham, where this four-bedroom cottage with an acre of gardens redefines the meaning of country living in the big city
- Curious Questions: What happened to saucy seaside postcards?
- The creation of Tom Stuart-Smith's showstopping garden at RHS Chelsea 2024
- 'This is, after all, the last remaining wonder of the ancient world' — One writer's pilgrimage to the Egyptian pyramids
- May 24th
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- May 19th
- 22 superb homes for sale from £260k to £15 million, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh on Chelsea 2024: 'We need controversy to make us think... Just don’t expect me to regard slugs and snails as my friend'
- How to train a 250lb pooch who is a mountain dog in every sense
- Stansted Park in the 20th century: The private made public
- May 18th
- May 17th
- This is how we brew it: The cafés of the Cotswolds
- How a 20-year-old Leonora Carrington told off one of Surrealism's leading lights, and embarked on a career which has just seen her masterpiece go for $22 million
- An award-winning architectural delight in Polzeath that's a perfect place to watch the sun set
- May 16th
- May 15th
- The Aston Martin Vantage review: A fusion of love, joy and metal
- WOW!house 2024: Six of the brightest ideas you'll see at the interiors event
- The £1m pair of Victorian sea forts for sale in the waters off Britain, complete with hotel rooms, nightclub and helipad
- The terrible truth about the cuckoo, and the 'monstrous outrages' it perpetrates on its foster parents and siblings
- Reader event: Celebrate Chelsea in bloom with Katharine Pooley
- May 14th
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- May 11th
- A honey-coloured home in Wiltshire that sits at peace with its landscape
- From the 'gatekeeper' to the 'Scotch argus', where did butterflies and moths get their strange names?
- 'A haunt of ancient peace' — The gardens at Iford Manor and their remarkable history
- 'Sometimes I like to think I have my finger on the pulse when it comes to design and fashion. I am incorrect' — Celebrating one of Europe's biggest street parties in the cushion of contemporary luxury
- May 10th
- Latimer Farm in Oddington: 'One of the most charming places that you could spend a few days'
- A 'rare and exceptional' medieval estate with an Elizabethan-style house, a string of cottages, and a location an hour from London
- Michael Prodger: How Britain’s landscapes have inspired painters across the centuries
- May 9th
- LifeBook: The easy way to turn your life into the story of a lifetime
- 'The most important spring landscape flower in Britain' that 'engulfs everything in its path' — The unstoppable exuberance of the frothing cow parsley
- Seven gorgeous Cotswolds homes for sale at under £500,000
- Chocolate hobnobs, mascarpone and mint — the perfect cheesecake for summer
- May 8th
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- May 5th
- Six stunning estates for sale, from the big to the small, as seen in Country Life
- The poisonous plant that can 'run riot' in your garden, was a favourite of Elizabeth II and is more beautiful than a rose
- How to stop your dog from chasing and barking at cats, by expert trainer Ben Randall
- 'We cannot have beauty without paying for it': The glorious revival of Rochdale's Town Hall
- May 4th
- An £18 million Surrey mansion, with vaulted hall, turrets, and a kitchen-diner the size of a three-bedroom house
- Curious Questions: Why did the Garden Cities of Tomorrow never catch on?
- Glebe House, Devon: 'The antithesis of big brand hotels'
- The gardens of High Moss, a Cumbrian paradise just moments from Derwentwater
- May 3rd
- How the Stevenson lighthouses saved the sailors of Scotland
- An Isle of Wight 'super-cottage' built by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert is up for sale
- Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: 'Who knew that winding coastal lanes could be so lucrative?'
- The wicker weavers who can make a picnic hamper with such skill that you can choose whether it's silent or squeaky
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