Country Life 21 April 2021
Country Life 21 April 2021 looks at dogs, treehouses and poppies, plus much more.


LIFE IN A TREEHOUSE: Star Wars and Semaphore.
POPPIES: How to sow them for summer colour.
EATING SNAILS: Why home-grown snails taste better than their French counterparts.
DOGS: Why our pooches understand us.
LOLA YOUNG'S FAVOURITE PAINTING: The Baroness makes her choice.
THE FIGHT FOR FARNHAM: How the plight of the Surrey town has lessons for us.
DOGS POST-LOCKDOWN: How to ease them back into normal life.
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POLOS: A minty celebration.
THE COLOUR OF MONEY: How great estates carefully colour-code their properties.
WRITERS' HOUSES: Novelists' homes for sale.
ELDERFLOWER: Ed Brown on one of spring's joys.
Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by HRH The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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'To exist in this world relies on the hands of others': Roger Powell and modern British bookbinding
An exhibition on the legendary bookbinder Roger Powell reveals not only his great skill, but serves to reconnect us with the joy, power and importance of real craftsmanship.
By Hussein Kesvani
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Spam: The tinned meaty treat that brought a taste of the ‘hot-dog life of Hollywood’ to war-weary Britain
Courtesy of our ‘special relationship’ with the US, Spam was a culinary phenomenon, says Mary Greene. So much so that in 1944, London’s Simpson’s, renowned for its roast beef, was offering creamed Spam casserole instead.
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