Country Life7h
Living in the real-life Cotchester, why would anyone buy a public toilet near Truro and how it took 21 years to designate a footpath
Plus the quiz of the day, saving Britain's most southerly post office, and the quiz of the day — it's the Dawn Chorus ...
Country Life22hOpinion
The law of unintended consequences is teaming up with Britain’s latest tax rises — and it’ll hit our historic houses hard
Country Life's cultural commentator Athena takes a closer look at last week's budget and foresees trouble ahead.
Country Life4h
‘The regular Satanic sort of thing’, ‘an appurtenance of terror’, or ‘capillary decorations’: The moustache still divides opinion
We can all agree that growing a moustache for charity is a good idea. But is it worth keeping afterwards? Harry Pearson looks to the past to find the answers.
Country Life1d
The seven types of gentleman
There have arguably been few men placed under greater stress than Sir Winston Churchill, yet he consistently broadcast ...
Country Life2d
Giant spiders, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on leather, velvet and growing old disgracefully and a home fit for Gunpowder Plotting
Along a similar vein is the annual scare story of giant spiders invading our homes over winter. Today, the Independent tells ...
Country Life5d
Inside The Painswick hotel’s brand new holiday cottage
One of the Cotswold's most charming country house hotels has snapped up a neighbouring cottage and given it a new lease of ...
Country Life5d
Curious Questions: How did a scrotum joke confuse paleontologists for generations?
One of the earliest depictions of a fossil prompted a joke — or perhaps a misunderstanding — which coloured the view of ...
Country Life4d
London’s Lost Interiors: Inside the houses of the capital’s plutocrats in the days when money was literally no object
Lost Interiors', explores the lost riches of London’s grand houses. Its author, Steven Brindle, looks at the residences of ...
Country Life4d
The incredible legacy of the ‘the only man ever to get away with smoking in the RHS Library’
Young Walter Ingwersen, a German-born alpine-plant specialist, spent part of the First World War interned as an enemy alien, ...
Country Life5d
‘Prepare to be amazed’ by a cathedral of autumn in the heart of Herefordshire
The garden at Hergest Croft, Herefordshire — home of Edward Banks — is an extraordinary collection of trees and shrubs, many ...
Country Life4d
You’ve got peemail: Why dogs sniff each other’s urine
Ever wondered why your dog is so fond of sniffing another’s pee? 'The urine is the carrier service, the equivalent of Outlook ...
Country Life3d
Ghost hunters: the search for Britain’s rarest flowers
Climbing, swimming and crawling, rare-plant hunters know no bounds when it comes to tracking down the botanical equivalent of the Holy Grail, says Peter Marren ...