A v middle class question...

[QuintusEstInHorto]

Has your Waitrose stopped selling Country Life?? Mine has since Christmas and I'm missing my weekly treat!

Why not the digital subscription OP? Instantly available and less waste.

@IntermittentParps I used to sometimes buy The Lady too when Rachel Johnson edited it. It wasn’t as bad as it used to be.

Country Living doesn’t have the property porn of Country Life nit by a long way.

Waterandlemonjuice, I find it oddly soothing, even though the typos and bad grammar etc piss me off professionally speaking (I do editorial work).
I like the ads for live-in staff and the polite book reviews.

I once met someone who didn't realise Horse and Hound was a real magazine

What, they thought Richard Curtis invented it purely so that Hugh Grant could cutely pretend he worked for it in Notting Hill to set up all kinds of jokes about whether Julia Roberts was riding any horses in her film, which turns out to be set on a spaceship?

This thread is hilarious, two lots of people talking about two entirely different things

I used to work in a newsagents in a very small (albeit ancient) semi-rural village and sold all the country and farming magazines. We sold loads, lots of farmers came into the shop. Tractor ones too. Abd Farmers Weekly. Funnily enough, the local supermarkets don't sell any of them

Ah.
But readers of Country Living don't need the property pages.

You see, to subscribe to Country Living, one must already own (at the very least) a trifling 3k acre estate.

Oh don't get me started dear. Our maid is currently fiddling around in the atrium, to what profit I for one can't readily discern. And these days they want annual leave and pensions and what not. It's absolutely ruinous!

I think my husband went to Tesco once but I don't remember him saying he had to use his rifle. I'll ask him when I see him, he must be out walking Cerberus somewhere.

supermarket own- brand organic butter for us. seems to taste pretty much the same whether it's Asda or Sainsbury's.

I don't read magazines. don't get the point if paying a fiver to look at adverts.

footchewer I'd keep an eye on that Poppea... are you sure your DH is out walking Cerberus??

Butter is divided into Président spreadable, and everything else.

Day to day, sure. But for special occasions the Brittany butter with the salt flakes. I could eat that with a spoon.

They closed my branch. Disaster!

@footchewer - take note of what @QuintusEstInHorto - I'd check the atrium if I was you... If your DH isn't there, he's probably popped out with his Rigby to add to the peasant stew. ... Or Cerberus may have eaten him.

Aside from that, thank you for reminding me that I'm out of butter. Might get some Lurpack as a treat.

Country life is just bog standard butter.

What you want is either President or Trewithen Dairy for everyday use. Although it's much nicer to get the round pats sold in Neal's Yard Dairy. They're really, really nice. Or naice.

Combine those with some lightly toasted sourdough, Waitrose Blue Eggs scrambled and a little pinch of sea salt flakes/white or pink peppercorns and you have an amazing MC breakfast.

Oh don't you worry dear, I'm keeping a close eye on the little meretrix. Clemens has been acting oddly around her lately as well ...

DH is more likely to be in town sucking up to that vile Marcus Holsomethingus Rufus.

And do you have any idea how difficult it is to get three muzzles onto Cerberus's heads? The insurance claims I've had to make, it makes your eyes water.

Who is
You can't put a better bit of butter on your knife?

Your thread made me think of it.

@footchewer - surely you don't put the muzzles on yourself? Tell the maid to do it.
... if she's stuck, tell her to check the most recent copy of Country Life, as there's most likely an article in there, detailing how to do it.

... not that that sort of nonsense would ever appear in a Country Living, of course... (unless Cerberus was a pedigree, and you've decided to create a wonderfully quaint start-up business from breeding him, in which case, there's probably about 80 photos of it in a two-page article)

I also thought you were talking about butter..

I bought vegetables in Sainsburys today. Very disappointed. Had to through two potatoes away, because they'd gone manky inside.

Throw!

Noef Anchor butter

Try the National Enquirer, it's much better!

Thanks little

That jingle was coopted by Spitting Image during the height of apartheid: 'you can't put a better bit of Botha on your knife'

*I once met someone who didn't realise Horse and Hound was a real magazine

What, they thought Richard Curtis invented it purely so that Hugh Grant could cutely pretend he worked for it in Notting Hill to set up all kinds of jokes about whether Julia Roberts was riding any horses in her film, which turns out to be set on a spaceship?*

Yes!!!!