Country Life

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.

Miss Alexandra May Wyatt • Alexandra is a senior vice-president at Silicon Valley Bank, where she advises and invests in early-stage technology companies and acts as a mentor for start-up companies. She is the daughter of John and Caroline Wyatt of Bucklebury, Berkshire, and Roland Park, Baltimore, US.

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Hold your fire

So much for National Tree Week

Weasel debate

Good week for

Bad week for

In the red

A bird in the hand is worth two behind bars

For the greener good?

Mouse • Singing from the same hymn sheet

Town Mouse • Stepping into Christmas

COUNTRY LIFE • December 10, 1921

Oh, the agony! • Agony Mrs solves your dilemmas

Town & Country Notebook

Wines of the week

In the spotlight • Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)

Letter of the week

Contact us (photographs welcome)

Letters to the Editor

COUNTRY LIFE DECEMBER 15/22

All in moderation

Classical music is at a turning point

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

Poppy Field by Monet • Charlotte Mullins comments on Poppy Field

Where a giant walked • You can see from Wales to Gloucestershire from The Wrekin

The Life of the Robin

Lack’s wisdom on robins

A life with birds

Do your ears hang low? • Incorrigible and exasperating, vocal yet always entertaining and seemingly almost human, the basset hound is a force of nature, says devotee Flora Watkins

The hound of the bassetvilles

A modest manor Rippington Manor, Cambridgeshire The home of Peter and Gay Johnson • A delightful 16th-century manor house is revealed to have an unexpectedly complex history and an unusual story to tell. John Goodall explains

A blaze of colour • A great window of heraldic stained glass by A.W.N. Pugin has been restored at Alton Towers in Staffordshire. John Goodall reports on this dazzling project.

We all fall down like toy soldiers • Infantry marching with fixed bayonets, cantering cavalry and swaggering bands with rippling kilts: model soldiers are not only playthings, they’re miniature works of art, says Charles Harris

Blow that for a game of soldiers

The Editor’s favourites • Mark Hedges rounds up the little luxuries that got him through 2021

The designer's room • Interior designer Sarah Brown has created a perfect town-meets-country kitchen in her Chiswick home

Why old is gold • The deeper designers dig into our decorative past, the more gleaming nuggets they unearth

An open-and-shut case • A symbol of both pagan fertility and Christian piety, the sensual and sublime scallop is achingly tender and blissfully sweet, says Tom Parker Bowles

Ready when you are • With renovations and materials in such high demand, high-spec historic houses, such as these three in Hampshire and West Sussex, should be snapped up

Dearly beloved • Old rectories, parsonages and vicarages we’re glad the Church didn’t hold on to

Local heroes • The dedicated

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