Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited 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 Harriet Cowan • Harriet is a farmer and an adult district nurse for the NHS, who worked as Jeremy Clarkson’s right hand in the fourth season of Clarkson’s Farm. She is the daughter of Eddy Cowan and Jacqui McArthur of Belper, Derbyshire.

All I need is the air that I breathe

Country Life

Hope from the ashes

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Get up and get on

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Ricardo Afonso

Come on in, the water’s lovely • The seaside lido offered safe swimming for holidaymakers irrespective of the vagaries of the tide. Kathryn Ferry looks at the architecture of these remarkable creations

The legacy • Sir James Clark Ross and the discovery of Antarctica

In God’s acre we trust • Home to a veritable ‘Noah’s Ark of species’, thanks to never being ploughed, sprayed or fertilised, our churchyards are a sacred haven for flora and fauna, says Laura Parker

Keeping a low profile • For some trees, being blown over isn’t the end of the story. Jack Watkins salutes those hardy, storm-damaged and often ancient phoenix or recumbent trees that don’t take their fate lying down

Watch out for your socks… • Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world

Best foot forward • The season to shed one’s socks is here, says Hetty Lintell, with her pick of some of the comfiest sandals on the block

The designer’s room • Having inherited this fine London townhouse, the new owner asked Sims Hilditch to help refresh the interiors, resulting in a youthful, yet elegant kitchen

Rhubarb, rhubarb • Be tickled pink with summer’s fruitiest colour, says Amelia Thorpe

Captain of industry

Family affairs • Three stellar estates in Wales and Staffordshire show how careful restoration is always worth the effort

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

Need to know

West London roars back • The style set is returning to the very neighbourhoods it once made a habit of spurning, finds Will Hosie

Lost, but not forgotten • George Dillistone’s original Arts-and-Crafts design has been lovingly restored and updated with contemporary planting, discovers George Plumptre

Walk like an onion

Kitchen garden cook Tomatoes

Jnane Rumi, Marrakech, Morocco

Blazinga trail • The Pyrenees reserves its best treasures for walkers prepared to venture off the well-beaten trail, says Teresa Levonian Cole, on a solo holiday in Ribes de Freser

On your bike

Into the looking glass • Antiques dealer Laura Dadwell wore her best poker face when she found a pair of mirrors at a provincial market in France, but her heart was pounding, for each was an exquisite example of 18th-century Venetian glassmaking

Life’s a pretty picnic • French artists have appropriated alfresco dining ever since Édouard Manet scandalised Paris with his Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, yet many charming scenes were painted in Britain, too, and are worth rediscovering, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Stranger things • From topless staddle...