This week's brilliant issue of Country Life, May 11, takes in a literary tour of Surrey, canine companions of vicars and brilliant ideas with asparagus - plus don't miss our fashion shoot for all ages
** SURREY
Clive Aslet visits Haslemere Museum in Surrey and finds a remarkable attempt to revive peasant culture, and takes a literary tour of Surrey
** FEATURES
Flora Watkins meets the canine companions who are helping men and women of the cloth with their ministries
** GARDENS
New developments in iris breeding overseas are spurring on a fine collction at Claire Austin Hardy Plants in Powys, says Jacky Hobbs
** FASHION
Bright colours and bold prints never go out of fashion, no matter what your age, suggests Hetty Chidwick
** FOOD
Simon Hopkinson cooks with asparagus
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Child stars, Prince and nursery rhymes: It's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, December 5, 2025It's all in today's quiz.
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‘Calf’s brains have a bland, gentle richness that soothes and cossets': Tom Parker Bowles on the joys of eating offalEating offal it is more sinned against than sinning, but it offers the ultimate in magnificent, fully immersive eating.
