Magazines

Ooooohhh, Jacky, I loved Family Circle. Wasn't there another one very similar and I love Home and Freezer Digest ( I think it was called)!

I don't buy any of the Glossies. I get one magazine/ newsletter of Geological interest. I just don't see why anyone buys celebrity magazines.
We do have a subscription to Radio Times which makes us sound ancient.

A work colleague with whom I spent many an hour at Exeter St Davids Station catching the 9.57 to Paddington, would often buy a glossy mag to look at on the journey back.

My overall impression of the type she chose was and was waffling about was "celebs" (some of which I wouldn't know, although reading the tempters on the cover, I can see why some might be drawn in.

Then there are the articles about clothes, which seemed to be either unwearable or unaffordable.

You've just reminded me, roses. I am a member of Butterfly Conservation, and have just received my copy of Butterfly. More colourful than Moth Review, I assume. I also get Beamish magazine every quarter, as I am a member there.

Oh yes, some of those sound sooo boring...but I suppose they're industry-related.

You've reminded me, roses that we used to buy Private Eye regularly, but it seemed to go off a bit once Gordon Brown was booted out of office...

Woman's Weekly used to have good recipes. They still do at Xmas.

The magazines in Have I Got News For You always give us a laugh, you can't quite believe that some of them are real! things like Cement Today or Moth Review.

Not a single magazine to be seen in our surgery waiting room this morning. Don't know if they have decided they get too germ ridden.

I can't remember when I last bought a magazine. I look at them in waiting rooms and they all seem to contain the same sort of trivia.

I suppose it's different if it's a publication relating to a particular interest.

I have to admit to my guilty pleasures..Bella ..love the big cross word..take a break...chat.....also get yours each fortnight...they have a where are you section....I live in hope someone might be remembering me and is desperate to make contact.....me sophisticated nooooo

No subscriptions but I used to buy Good Housekeeping now and again, but thought it wasn't as good the last time or two that I did buy it and far too many ads.Once, about seven years ago, our DD came to visit, saw the GH mag on the coffee table and scoffed at it,' ooh, good housekeeping!' Etc. I told her it was better than it sounded. a while later I came into the room and found her, feet up, engrossed and reading the entire mag.She sheepishly said that it was quite good after all. smug mode!

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This is as good a place as any sprite, and no, you are not being unreasonable.

Good thread.

'Chat' is always a safe option. Not that it matters one iota.

The RHS magazine comes with membership and so does DH's RSPB mag. I sometimes buy Gardens Illustrated which has me drooling over the upmarket gardens they feature....A girl can dream!

I like to buy Country Living in the run up to Christmas because it has some lovely ideas for rural themed pressies and decorations and this month I bought English Home for the first time because I wanted something to thumb through while DH was having his lengthy check up on his eyes. The mags in the waiting room bring out the Margot Leadbetter in me.

I don't buy magazines. I get the ones included in English Heritage, Caravan Club and Historic House Assoc membership and I sometimes read the problem pages in the ones they leave out in the doctors surgery.

I did once try to read one for triathletes. I managed the swimming and cycling but had to give up the running due to exhaustion. I think I should have trained on Women's Weekly and Bella first

I just can't be bothered with magazines these days. The glossies are full of ads for things I don't want and the others seem full of people I've never heard of. I just keep loading up my Kindle with inexpensive downloads and the occasional treat

sprite66 When in doubt, post in Chat.

I get a yearly subscription to Good Housekeeping courtesy of my bank but it is not as good as it was years ago.

Apologies for apparently posting in the wrong place. I did look for the most appropriate home for the subject but failed to find an exact fit. Will limit future posts to those I am 100% sure are in the correct place.

Have enjoyed reading the choices of others none the less.

I don't have any subscriptions but have a magazine addiction that I am trying to control.
I've not bought any Woman's Weekly or Woman's Realm for a while but was lured by a copy of Psychologies the other day.

Used to get Vegetarian Good Food. Then they decided to put a few recipes in the back of the ordinary Good Food, so I told them I wanted my money back.

I buy Dalesman and Who Do You think You Are. They were both originally presents from my husband, and I do not want to stop them yet.

I'm a prolific reader and a bit of a magazine addict. I subscribe to Prima, Woman and Home, and Good Housekeeping and Woman's Weekly on a weekly basis ( as I expect you guessed!) It's much cheaper to buy on subscription and I don't have to remember when the next one is due as it arrives in the post, usually a bit earlier than it appears in the shops. Love them!

I don't subscribe but I do buy 'Yours' magazine quiet regularly. I'd say that fits your bill JackyB I also buy 'Beautiful Homes' 'Home & Garden' or anything similar that takes my fancy.

When the kids were small I used to take Family Circle (the UK version packed up some time in the 80s). I still use them today - for the recipes - and love re-reading the articles as well. I don't see any need to buy any new ones.

Anyway, there don't seem to be any magazines around these days that are full of sensible stuff for real people. I have picked up a couple at airports, but they seem to be all full of ads.

By the way, I agree with phoenix! Threads do appear to be in the strangest places lately.