Country Life 30 June 2021
Country Life 30 June 2021 looks at St Paul's Cathedral, finds out how to keep goats, meets a rock god and a painter who loves dogs behaving badly.


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Here's a selection of what you'll find in this week's issue:
ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL: Christopher Wren's masterpiece.
GOATS: Add an English goat to your household and life will be more amusing and less predictable, discovers Julie Harding.
JOHN HOLDER: Naughty dogs have offered endless inspiration for artist John Holder.
BLUEBIRD: Malcolm Campbell's motor yacht has a 90th birthday makeover.
ADAM CLAYTON'S FAVOURITE PAINTING: We ask U2's bassist to pick.
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STORMONT: Part two of John Goodall's piece on the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
BORAGE: From Crusaders to Pimm's, still as good as ever.
SUNGLASSES: You need some. We point some out.
A BRAND-NEW CLASSIC: The Bentley Blower, re-created.
And much more.
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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