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The 2024 Country Life Editor’s Christmas quiz
It's Christmas day. You've probably run out of things to talk about. Why not do this quiz to pass the time? Answers will be posted at 1:30pm tomorrow. So that was 2024 1) Which ITV television drama ...
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14 of the greatest movie posters in cinema
The right poster can evoke a film without words, stir nostalgia and entice viewers into cinemas. We’ve taken a selection from ...
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Country Life’s 20 favourite stories of 2024, from elephants and explorers to the country house that came with a free Harrier Jump Jet
Over the Christmas period we'll be featuring some of the best stories of the year from the Country Life website.
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‘A robin redbreast in a cage puts all Heaven in a rage’: Why this charming little bird is the nation’s favourite
We’re more emotionally connected to the robin than any other bird, says Mark Cocker, as he considers why we feel so much ...
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Thomas Hardy and the country house: ‘Irregularity is the genius of Gothic architecture’
With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence of the ...
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Dawn Chorus: ‘The most beautiful car in the world’ made both better, and worse, all at once; best mince pies; and our quiz of the day
A roofless conversion of an E-Type, Disney fever dream and more in this morning's Dawn Chorus round-up.
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The special magic of a frozen garden in winter
Waking up to discover the garden transformed by a short, sharp hoar frost is a magical experience. Tiffany Daneff looks at ...
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Country Life’s top 10 gardens articles of 2024
From the gardens of A-listers and crazed plant hunters to tips on compost, we covered it all in 2024. Charles Quest-Ritson admitted in April that he never fell for orchids the way he has for roses — ...
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‘Look out! Look out! Jack Frost is about!’
Variously described as ‘wearing a cloak of silver’ and looking like ‘a hoary old man’, Jack Frost has attracted many artistic depictions over the centuries — some more positive than others.
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Charles Quest-Ritson: Walnuts are one of the gardener’s greatest pleasures — but you’ll have to be ready for the squirrels
Once you are hooked by walnuts and want to grow more varieties, you find an extraordinary amount of choice. Charles Quest-Ritson explains more.
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Tom Parker Bowles: Forget turkey and pigs-in-blankets — the Christmas ham is the king of the yuletide feast
Ribboned with fat and gleaming with a clove-studded glaze,Tom Parker Bowles sings the praises of the succulent Christmas ham. Christmas just ain’t Christmas without the festive ham. Sure, there will ...
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The racehorse trainer: ‘Christmas Day is the only day of the year that I actually ride a horse’
Kate Green meets Philip Hobbs and Johnson White, in our series on the people who make Christmas in the country the joy it is, to discover how racehorses are looked after even when everyone else is ...