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Country Life

Jul 28 2021
Magazine

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Mrs Paul Gridley

Thank you for the music

Claim six issues of Country Life for £6*

Country Life

We’d miss this meadow

Express yourself

Happy hedges

A very fine innings

Good week for

Bad week for

Horses of another colour

Slow and steady wins the race

On the subject of tortoises...

Country Mouse • Forrard on

Town Mouse • A happy omen

COUNTRY LIFE • July 30, 1921

Oh the agony! • New agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas

Town & Country Notebook

Puffin (Fratercula arctica)

Wines of the week

I am a passenger

Letters to the Editor

Life on the veg

A tragedy for historic Liverpool–and Britain

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Edie Campbell • Blessed are those who mourn (Breonna Breonna)

A Canterbury Tale

What they said

A controversial pair

On the record • Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford is published by Faber & Faber

I may be some time • The author on early sadness and late-blooming fiction-writing success

On the wings of love • Once oblivious to butterflies, Robin Page became so entranced by their delicate beauty that he embarked on a year-long safari to tick every British species–as well as some foreign visitors–off his list

Robin's butterfly calendar

A fritillary by any other name: the realities of a butterfly safari

‘And for that minute a blackbird sang’ • The words of Edward Thomas deftly captured the special places and views close to his heart. Nick Denton walks in the country poet’s footsteps

What a relief • Generations have sworn by dock leaves to take the sting out of a brush with nettles, even if modern medicine disagrees, says Ian Morton

In the dock

As happy as a farmer in muck • Poo-picking on a sultry July morning is a pleasure and a pain for John Lewis-Stempel, as he marvels at the host of insects that delight in dung

It’s all going south • Our fishing correspondent ventures to England for a series of forays on venerable chalkstreams, where he bags a few brown trout and a lot of nostalgia

The problem with house building... • Housing development is conditioned by concerns that have nothing to do with creating attractive or sustainable places to live. Clive Aslet explains this scandalous situation and suggests what we might be able to do about it

A question of style • When building a new house, the biggest choice is between classic and contemporary. Eleanor Doughty talks to the owners of newly built houses and finds that the answer lies in combining the best of both

From the architects' mouths

Far from the madding crowd • Inspired by simple Scottish and Swedish structures in remote locations, Annie and Lachlan Stewart have created an ‘instant’ hideaway, finds Amelia Thorpe

In the making

Luxury under £20

Luxury News

High 5 • Make a splash for summer

A few of my favourite things • The journalist and broadcaster presented the BBC game show The Weakest Link in the UK and America for 12...


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 124 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Jul 28 2021

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: July 28, 2021

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Travel & Outdoor

Languages

English

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Mrs Paul Gridley

Thank you for the music

Claim six issues of Country Life for £6*

Country Life

We’d miss this meadow

Express yourself

Happy hedges

A very fine innings

Good week for

Bad week for

Horses of another colour

Slow and steady wins the race

On the subject of tortoises...

Country Mouse • Forrard on

Town Mouse • A happy omen

COUNTRY LIFE • July 30, 1921

Oh the agony! • New agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas

Town & Country Notebook

Puffin (Fratercula arctica)

Wines of the week

I am a passenger

Letters to the Editor

Life on the veg

A tragedy for historic Liverpool–and Britain

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Edie Campbell • Blessed are those who mourn (Breonna Breonna)

A Canterbury Tale

What they said

A controversial pair

On the record • Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford is published by Faber & Faber

I may be some time • The author on early sadness and late-blooming fiction-writing success

On the wings of love • Once oblivious to butterflies, Robin Page became so entranced by their delicate beauty that he embarked on a year-long safari to tick every British species–as well as some foreign visitors–off his list

Robin's butterfly calendar

A fritillary by any other name: the realities of a butterfly safari

‘And for that minute a blackbird sang’ • The words of Edward Thomas deftly captured the special places and views close to his heart. Nick Denton walks in the country poet’s footsteps

What a relief • Generations have sworn by dock leaves to take the sting out of a brush with nettles, even if modern medicine disagrees, says Ian Morton

In the dock

As happy as a farmer in muck • Poo-picking on a sultry July morning is a pleasure and a pain for John Lewis-Stempel, as he marvels at the host of insects that delight in dung

It’s all going south • Our fishing correspondent ventures to England for a series of forays on venerable chalkstreams, where he bags a few brown trout and a lot of nostalgia

The problem with house building... • Housing development is conditioned by concerns that have nothing to do with creating attractive or sustainable places to live. Clive Aslet explains this scandalous situation and suggests what we might be able to do about it

A question of style • When building a new house, the biggest choice is between classic and contemporary. Eleanor Doughty talks to the owners of newly built houses and finds that the answer lies in combining the best of both

From the architects' mouths

Far from the madding crowd • Inspired by simple Scottish and Swedish structures in remote locations, Annie and Lachlan Stewart have created an ‘instant’ hideaway, finds Amelia Thorpe

In the making

Luxury under £20

Luxury News

High 5 • Make a splash for summer

A few of my favourite things • The journalist and broadcaster presented the BBC game show The Weakest Link in the UK and America for 12...


Expand title description text