Woman and Woman's Own

Good Housekeeping is the only decent one on the market these days. I tried Woman and Home, but it's too much woman and not enough home.

Woman's Weekly might still be good for recipes.

Like you I used to enjoy reading Woman and Woman's Own but find them awful tat now. Does your local library keep magazines? If so you could have a browse and see if anything appeals.

My aunty would have a shock if she read her weeklies, Woman and Woman's Own these days. Unrecognisable.

I had both Good Housekeeping and Woman and Home on subscription for years and agree with jinglbells that W&H is more Woman. I now just have GH. I can't find any other magazine that appeals to me.

I'll have a look at Good Housekeeping, thanks.

I'm fed up with GH having bought it for years. The fashion is unaffordable, its full of stories of valiant women battling against the odds to run a small (designer) business with only their family connections and money to help them and some pretty strange recipes. I take Red now and again but I'm off magazine generally. By the way the price now!!!!

I regularly used to buy Woman and Woman's Own years ago. I remember they always had at least one short story, which was about 2 or 3 pages long, and a serial that kept us buying it every week! Then there was the letters page, and the 'Dear Marge' page was always good fun to read. And plenty of other interesting stuff.

Now, as others say, it's just tat, celebrity gossip and melodramatic real life stories of the "My boyfriend is sleeping with my mum" variety.

Good Housekeeping is probably about the only one I would buy these days, but I do miss the old Women's magazines.

Saga Magazine is excellent. Whole range of subjects for all ages of people, including a problem page. I've had a subscription for years. It cost about £8.00 for 12 issues. Can't beat that for value!

I used to love Woman when I was a teenager. My mother thought Woman's Own was common - surely they were the same??

These days I browse and pick a magazine on the spur of the moment. Sometimes it's GH but I also like Country Living and The English Home.

In spring and summer I usually stick to gardening mags with lots of lovely pictures like Gardens Illustrated and The English Garden. Expensive but a guilty pleasure.

They look good on the coffee table

I agree about the unaffordable fashion featured in mags like GH. Whoever pays £300 for a pair of trousers? They sometimes team a Primark top with the £300 trousers as though that makes it alright. Who are these fashion writers aiming at? I also agree about the so-called 'inspirational' women running cottage industries from their shabby chic former farmhouses in posh parts of Devon ('I find the Aga so useful for keeping my special homemade venison casserole hot for when Tabitha comes in from riding her pony'). Yuk. Someone needs to start up a mag for real women.

I can't remember the last time I bought a magazine. I tend to look online to see anything I want to read about. Has anyone found The Pool a sort of online magazine aimed I think at younger people than us (!) but quality writing and no made up stories.

As a writer of 'made up stories' I'm sorry to hear that, bookdreamer!

I highly recommend "Yours" magazine, which is fortnightly and aimed at 50 + age group. Appropriate fashion and makeup tips as well as more serious content such as pensions and health.
It has a light hearted side too.

I gave up my subscription to GH for the same reason as Teetime.

I sometimes buy Country Living, but as I tend to keep them, I find rereading to old ones just as interesting. They repeat topics, each season.

I have found a new magazine out every 2 months(£4.24) called Landscape, in Waitrose mag section. It's got interesting articles about different places, interiors, crafts, gardening and recipes.

I'm not into reading about people's personal lives, so it suits me.

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nottoold I meant stories about celebrities! Not fiction

I love to read a well written piece of fiction NotTooOld

I wonder if bookdreamer means so called "true life stories" which actually aren't ?

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I loved your analogy, nottooold!

I used to buy the Australian Woman's Weekly, for quite a long time. To get away fromthe celebs.
Can't get it here. Maybe it has changed too, I hope not.

I thought Australian Woman's Weekly was full of (untrue) gossip about 'Princess Kate' last time I was over

Perhaps it has succumbed too, perhaps it helps sales
www.aww.com.au/latest-news/celebrity

I used to look forward to choosing a woman's magazine when I visit the UK. I don't know why I bother flicking through them now because I always return them to the shelf. Not enough to interest me for the price. Occasionally I am tempted by a craft or knitting magazine or Gardeners World.

I wanted to buy a gift subscription for a magazine for my 80+ aunt who is an avid reader. Other than TLS could not find anything suitable for her either.

Yours magazine (ninathenana) and Landscape (J52) sound interesting so will look those up. Thanks.

Yours and Woman's Weekly are the ones I choose. I agree about Woman And Woman's Own.

How I agree with Teetime. I have had GH on subscription for years. I feel, that apart from the recipes, it is aimed now at a younger market. If I can find a more suitable magazine I am seriously thinking of stopping my subscription. So I shall follow this thread to see if any good suggestions come up.

I also like GH and W&H but I agree with Teetime when she says "I'm fed up with GH having bought it for years. The fashion is unaffordable, its full of stories of valiant women battling against the odds to run a small (designer) business with only their family connections and money to help them"

I would love to see a glossy magazine that includes realistic achievements, realistic problems and issues, realistically priced fashion etc.

Can't bear those magazines where husbands run off with their sisters boyfriends etc.