Features Archive | September 2024

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September 30th
- Poems about pies, the foul-mouthed parrot upstaging Margaret Atwood and starting World War III via Desert Island Discs: Ian McMillan on the Country Life Podcast
- 'As a child I wanted to snuggle up with the dogs and be part of it': Alexia Robinson chooses her favourite painting
September 29th
- Six truly idyllic properties for sale, from idyllic seclusion to a commutable country estate, as seen in Country Life
- The spread of Johnny Appleseed: The many many varieties of apple
- Alan Titchmarsh's Compost conundrums
- How to teach your dog to go to the loo when you need them to — and not just when they decide the time is right
- Samuel Lysons: The man who revealed the Roman Cotswolds
September 28th
- A magnificent Gothic-style home with curving staircase, a pool and a location on the site of an ancient hillfort
- Curious Questions: Who invented the rear-view mirror?
- Gansevoort review: The hotel that helped launch New York’s Meatpacking District to fashionable heights
- The Cotswolds garden that's cleverly designed to defy the worst of the elements
September 27th
- 'Intelligent, calm, cautious and thoughtful': Why donkeys keep charming us
- A two-bedroom property overlooking a Cornish cove in which to decompress
September 26th
- The beauty of bespoke: A journey with Julia Lloyd George
- Jason Goodwin: 'Ahead of the Japanese invasion of Borneo, I was told, she had memorised all the top-secret embassy codes to prevent them falling into enemy hands'
- 'We had to extract her by her legs in an undignified fashion so she could meet him and join us all at the table': The trials and tribulations of the country-house lift
- Property Talk: What happens when you buy or sell a country estate?
- Dessert divine: A pear and saffron clafoutis
September 25th
- Alan Titchmarsh: I've been looking for the answer to peat-free compost — and now I think I've found it
- Living on the hedge: The art of hedgelaying
- ‘A magical home’ nestled in Devon’s rolling hills on sale for the first time since the late 1990s
September 24th
- There's dinosaurs in them thar hills: How Britain discovered the Megalosaurus
- Country Life 25 September 2024
- 'Like something out of a Constable painting’: A wisteria-clad waterside cottage on the market for the first time in 40 years
September 23rd
- Literature, landscape and re-wiggling rivers, with Vicky and Charles Rangeley-Wilson
- Have your say on Country Life and get a chance to win a Fortnum & Mason hamper
- A 450-year-old thatched cottage that's had an award-winning restoration, complete with orchard, paddock and kennels
- My Favourite Painting: Geraldine Collinge
September 22nd
- Six of the best properties for sale in the Cotswolds, as seen in Country Life
- 'A garden should be the cosiest of places, but with some element of awe, menace, and glimpses of the wider landscape'
- Civic splendour: St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry
September 21st
- The country house where the architects threw out the rulebook, and created 'one of the best 12 homes in Britain'
- Curious Questions: Which person has spent the most time on TV?
- ‘My God! What’s he done?… look at it!’: How George Harrison left The Beatles, turned his hand to gardening, and created a masterpiece
- Is there anywhere understated left in the Cotswolds?
September 20th
- Athena: Sacrificing the Arts for 'self-imposed' fiscal rules?
- A sportsman's paradise near Henley with pool, cricket nets and one of the finest croquet lawns in the country
- 'There was a 70ft hole beneath where the children were playing': The ups and downs of having a well on your property
- 'Without fever there is no creation': the tumultuous talent of Giacomo Puccini
September 19th
- 'Rural England need not be retirement England': How hybrid working can save the countryside
- Spheres with tails: our enduring love affair with the thrush
- Hancocks: Sparkle of genius
- 'Handheld heaven: Tom Parker Bowles on the 'baroque symphony' of spicy, sublime Mexican corn
September 18th
- Pelargoniums: The flowers that'll make your garden smile
- A medieval Manor house that was once a royal hunting lodge has come to the market
September 17th
- Beware experience, lest we forget what actually makes these places important in the first place
- Minette Batters: Happiness is in the little things
- Two islands, one helipad, 130 acres and a 16-bedroom castle on Scotland's west coast for less than £3 million
- Country Life 18 September 2024
- Labour's new National Planning Policy Framework is a 'wolf in sheep's clothing'
September 16th
- Lucy Shepherd: Britain's most intrepid young explorer on how she went from rural Suffolk to trekking the Amazon
- The best new indoor planters, pots and plant stands
- My Favourite Painting: Rachel Podger
September 15th
- Six spectacular homes across the Home Counties from £2m to £10m, as seen in Country Life
- 'Try them with pecorino and a cold glass of dryish white wine and feel smug': How to grow your own almonds
- Ben Randall: Q&A with the award-winning dog trainer
- The destruction and recreation of Scone Palace
September 14th
- An iconic movie star's £10 million home in Buckinghamshire has come to the market
- When, where and what to plant for the perfect spring bulbs
- Choc ices and cheese: What it's like to fly in British Airways's new Club Suite cabin
September 13th
- Anya Hindmarch: 'Luxury can become achingly boring and a bit worthy. I like things that make you smile’
- A farm with 350 acres on Scotland's west coast where you can watch salmon jump up a waterfall
- 'Neither fish nor flesh': The beguiling world of the otter
- 'Every month since June 2023 has now ranked as the planet’s hottest... we are challenging everything on which we rely — our weather, our health, our water and our food security'
September 12th
- A blank canvas under thatch with a silly name that's waiting for a new lease of life
- A fig, honey and walnut cake that's the perfect autumn bake
September 11th
- The £27,600 wooden bathtub and other modern day marvels to create an unforgettable bathroom
- The Legacy: Arthur Hobhouse and the creation of our national parks
- Get two free tickets for the London Homebuilding & Renovating Show
- A glorious thatched five-bedroom family home in one of Oxfordshire's most sought-after villages
September 10th
- Country Life 11 September 2024
- 'One of the most stunning houses in Nidderdale' is on the open market, with interiors which could have leapt straight out of a glossy magazine
- What's for sale on 'the most mouth-watering shopping list in Britain'?
September 9th
- Britain has 763 different types of moss — and they're varied, distinctive and strikingly beautiful
- Charlie Bigham: The man behind the meals on food, farming, and why cooking his lasagne takes three hours
- Goodwood Revival 2024: What you missed at the world's most elegant motor race weekend
- A four bedroom house on the River Fowey that rose from the ruins of the English Civil War
September 8th
- Rebirth of an icon: How Lotus is picking up the EV baton and running with it
- Six superb country homes for sale, from Devon to Suffolk, as seen in Country Life
- It's been raining almost non-stop for 11 months — but one plant has defied the weather
- The tale of Scone Palace, and the mystery of the Stone of Scone
September 7th
- 'I enjoy seeing people having a good time. That, for me, is the key': Meet some of London's best restaurateurs
- Views to die for in 'God's Own County' as Thorney Hall comes on to the market at £5 million
- Curious Questions: What are the finest last words ever uttered?
- A house so beautiful you'll wonder how they built it — but you'll be glad that they did
- Elegy to a country churchyard: The gardens at Stockcross House
- Palazzo Previtera, Sicily: When is a hotel not a hotel? When it’s also a museum, of course
September 6th
- Sensory overload: If the modern car is all about safety, then why don't I feel safe?
- A delightful Georgian house that's perfect for anyone who loves life by the waterside
September 5th
- A five-bedroom Georgian country home on the edge of the Lake District for less than a three-bedroom London flat
- An oasis of peace in the maelstrom of Covent Garden
- The Aston Martin DBX707: A Bond car for all seasons, five days and Three Peaks
- The Legacy: Sir Henry Tate and art for all
- Wining and dining with a view: is this the best kitchen on the property market?
- This Victorian boozy blackberry cordial is as good today as it was 150 years ago. Here's how to make it.
September 4th
- Wembley isn't just a stadium — it was a vision and a pioneering adventure in the history of architecture
- A traditional South Downs farmhouse with stables, a pool... and a skateboard stunt park in the barn
- The timeless appeal of Vaughan and the secrets of good lighting to be unpacked by four of Britain's top designers
- Burghley Horse Trials preview: From Paris, with love
September 3rd
- Country Life 4 September 2024
- Eastern promises: The best places to live east of London, from Diss and Dedham to Newmarket and Newport
- The rest is photographs
September 2nd
- An exquisite home tucked away in Surrey Hills woodland that blends Arts-and-Crafts with a touch of Versailles
- Cooking baked beans in an Aston Martin, rubbing shoulders with Beyoncé and sneaking onto yachts at Monaco, with Adam Hay-Nicholls
- The Pre-Raphaelite painter who swapped 'willowy, nubile women' for stained glass — and created some of the best examples in Britain
September 1st
- 24 irresistible country homes for sale, starting from just £350,000, as seen in Country Life
- Alan Titchmarsh: How many chairs in your garden is too many?
- One lump or two? The homes where horses come inside the house
- A consolation and pleasure: The architectural brilliance of Prince Albert