Country Life March 23 2016

Our Easter issue is bursting with articles, ideas and beautiful photography, as well as our fiendish Editor's Easter quiz

Country Life cover March 23 2016

Take our Easter issue home and have a great long weekend with Country Life.

Inside:

The Editor’s Country Easter Quiz Can you answer all of our fiendish brain-teasers?

Home Sweet Home: All creatures take as much pride in constructing their houses as we do, observes Simon Lester

Party planning: Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the changing fashions of the perfect bash and Anna Tyzack meets the party planners

George Plumptre takes a tour of the gardens associated with Canterbury Cathedral in Kent

In property: how to dress your house with plants

Simon Swynfen Jervis explores the Roman cabinet at Stourhead, a dazzling trophy of the Grand Tour

Gulls eggs; Vicky Liddell discovers the delights of this delectable egg, gathered in secret and limited by licence

Holly Kirkwood
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