Country Life April 29 2015
Country Life April 29 2015 celebrates the return of the windmill and reveals the latest in luxury.


This week in Country Life we enjoy a visit to Kettle’s Yard, an outstanding Cambridge house-museum, before it closes for two years, we discover that windmills are having a resurgence, we celebrate the culinary renaissance of the Scotch egg, we study the property market in glorious East Anglia and we learn to cook with watercress.
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Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.
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