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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Graham Norton's elegant East London home hits the market, and it's just as wonderful as you would expect
The four-bedroom home in Wapping should be studied for how well it uses two separate spaces to create a home of immense character and utility.
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Sign of the times: In the age of the selfie, what’s happening to the humble autograph?
When Ringo Starr announced that he was no longer going to sign anything, he kickstarted a celebrity movement that coincided with the advent of the camera phone and selfie. Rob Crossan asks whether, in today’s world, the selfie holds more clout than an autograph?