Madeleine Silver

1 week ago | cntraveller.com | Madeleine Silver |Charley Ward

All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. The UK’s farm scene has had a facelift. Or rather, people are viewing it with fresh eyes. Pig styes, drizzly weather and heavy machinery are about as far removed from traditional conceptions of luxury as you can get, but since the 2020 staycation boom, there’s been a gradual awakening.

Dec 9, 2024 | countrylife.co.uk | Madeleine Silver

For a young, growing family, moving in with, or adjacent to, the grandparents could be just the thing, says Madeleine Silver.

Dec 8, 2024 | thefield.co.uk | Madeleine Silver

From lifting the Cowdray Gold Cup last year to making his debut as England captain, life is good for the latest Beresford polo protégé, discovers Madeleine Silver It’s mid-morning on a blustery early summer’s day, and all six foot five inches of Tommy Beresford is thundering towards me, dark glasses on, to say he has one more chukka to play before he can break. We’re on the silky green pitches at Manor Farm on the Cowdray estate, where his UAE team is based.

Dec 6, 2024 | horseandhound.co.uk | Madeleine Silver

However long you’ve been involved with horses, there are some inevitable firsts that you can only experience as a horse owner or rider…1. The first time your horse smacks you in the face as you’re hanging his haynet. 2. The first time you wear your beautiful and very expensive Italian breeches and find the smear of green slobber down the back them. 3.

Sep 22, 2024 | houseandgarden.co.uk | Madeleine Silver

There’s something addictively extreme about the Highlands; the pelting rain that turns to Mediterranean sunshine in the time it takes you to unfurl your waterproof, the sea so turquoise it makes you scoff at the Maldives, and the roads winding through the most northern tips that make you want to yell into the wilderness: “is this real?” Only CGI could make these mountains quite so looming, the lochs so glassy and the wrecked castles so perfectly crumbling around every turn.