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Test your knowledge of the days of the week in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 4, 2026
8+ hour, 34+ min ago (141+ words) Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and…...
Snoozing dormice, British scorpions, vegan hedgehogs and other unusual animal facts in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 2, 2026
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (155+ words) Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and…...
Heatwaves, hail, hurricanes and high pressure. It's all about the weather in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, May 22, 2026
1+ week, 6+ day ago (176+ words) Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and…...
It's heating up in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, May 26, 2026
1+ week, 2+ day ago (149+ words) Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and…...
How to have the perfect picnic in a pinch, according to Country Life
1+ week, 6+ day ago (375+ words) Short of time or inclination to prep a proper picnic? Follow our cheat's guide to alfresco success on sunny days. Heart set on serving picnic canap's? Get a box of Rahms Croustade Cases, which are packaged with travelling in mind,…...
Guess that city skyline in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, May 7, 2026
4+ week, 8+ hour ago (157+ words) Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and…...
It's May Madness, featuring Brian May, James May, and May-be a few more: Country Life Quiz of the Day, May 1, 2026
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (152+ words) Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and…...
'Ugly, pointless and potentially lethal': Why dead hedges are a gardening fad too far
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (377+ words) Charles Quest-Ritson takes aim at the phenomenon of the 'dead hedge'. Gardening fashions come and go " and sometimes it is difficult to know exactly how and why. One that bugs me at the moment is the dead hedge. Those that…...
Peck peck: It's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 15, 2026
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (152+ words) Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and…...
Victoria and Albert at Burghley House: The royal visit that set the mould, and helped stave off revolution
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (238+ words) In November 1844, Queen Victoria visited Burghley House in Lincolnshire as part of a programme of travel aimed to introduce her subjects to Prince Albert. John Martin Robinson describes the event. Fig 2: The Christening of Lady Victoria Cecil, one in a…...