what magazines do *you* buy or subscribe to..

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and why? (have a few myself)

None.

Used to subscribe to Practical Parenting and Mother and Baby when pregnant, but none now.

Is Junior any good then ???

I stopped buying the other parenting ones when Ds was 1 as i felt the subjects no longer related to his age group.

Wot no Thorax bundle?
Dh used to work in a library that specialised in collecting trade magazines such as Peanut World and Nut Monthly, Cake and Biscuit Weekly etc...there are some gems out there.
MI, is there not a Green & Black's Consumers' Quarterly that you could contribute to

I am constantly on the lookout for Cake Weekly, to which I feel I could offer specialised, indepth research skills and considerable experience built up over years in the cake-eating field.

cake weekly . GQ but it's starting to hack me off. Too many adverts and extremely materialistic.

Here's one for you DaddyCool - I keep seeing a mag for men called 'Nuts' advertised and am sorely tempted to buy it for dh as a joke! Is it real or a spoof?
And aren't all magazines materialistic to a degree?

Junior, god knows why children far too old.

Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping (tee hee) and DH has Empire.

must find the office copy of Thorax, Marina, someone's snaffled it already. grrrrr

Yes, Nuts is a really sleazy weekly. Nice stocking stuffer!

Yes, all magazine are materialistic. Maybe materialistic isn't the right word. For instance GQ used to talk about manly things like cars with big engines, tobacco, sexy woman who didn't look like skeletons. Now its all personal grooming and articles that only cater to >60k wage earners.

DaddyCool, dh and I both enjoy The Word. Main focus is music, books and popular culture. Really good read.

I get Junior. The articles are quite well researched and interesting but the fashion is rather ridiculous IMO (we buy ds's clothes at Tesco, H&M etc!)

I was just going to say Red and Eve, but now bundle has started it I suppose I've got to add Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Trends in Genetics et al . Oh, and Interweave Knits. Double

Good Housekeeping (present from MIL), Delicious (from sister), Junior (from DH), SHE (just for me!). Also DH has Private Eye, The Spectator, Granta, LRB, TLS, Guardian Weekly. Buy music mags with free CDs too.

I DO read books too though.

tamum, used to love Chemistry in Britain but think it's gone off a bit. I don't even read a newspaper any more, except at weekends and scan the health pages in the telegraph online. oh and the esteemed journal Metro (4th hand copy on the tube)

marina, we get (the) Word too. must renew sub, in fact.
also Private Eye and The Week (the latter because there's no time to read any newspapers, not even the one I work for).
gave up on heat in the summer, and feel all fresh and purged now. got fed up with reading about Nadia.

Oh, I've never seen that one bundle! I read things like the Lancet online, but it's a bit dry like that. I'm with you on Metro too

love the obits in the lancet...dunno why

That's a funny thing- I always read obits in journals even when it's someone I've never heard of. They are strangely compelling. I'm glad I'm not alone

tamum, I've never heard of any of them, that's not the point really is it? i especially love ones who have nicknames like Monty and Bunty and worked in dar-es-salaam and then came back to blighty to set up STD clinics for inner city teenagers. and the very full manner in which the cause of death is stated.

In that case, Issymum, do not abscond with my DP who gets the Economist (or rather I get the Economist for him on Werk - he buys me the odd copy of OK! as post-modern irony in return) and also gets rather obscure things like Advanced Motorist, which is targeted at the over-75 section of the driving population, we think. Fabulous ads.

I love obituaries. Especially when you can't work out whether they're hinting that the deceased was, in fact, a screaming queen.

Woman & Home
Prima
BBC Good Food

Sorry, very housey, I know. I love going to the hairdressers so that I can read trashy mags like Cosmo!!

Issy Mum, it sounds like you dh has the same attitude as my dh to mags. I get second hand copies of things like OK and Australian Womens Weekly(!) from a friend (very occcassionally) which I have to pretend that I have no interest in or dh looks at me like I've growna second head! Have caught him reading them though, although always followed by a tut tuting noise and much shaking of the head! He also reads the Style mag that comes with Sunday Times (the only newspaper we get).
Apart from that we only have "subscriptions" to VERY exciting professional body magazines related to Engineering and Accountancy (although I gave up being an accountant in 1997 to become a teacher!) My personal favorite "Education" which is the monthly union propaganda newspaper put out by the Teaching Union in Sydney. It's hilarious bu tthey don't nitend it that way

Accountancy. Is anyone a CIMA member and get that 'financial management' zzzzzzzzzzzz snore snuff..

ACMA Daddycool

Eve
Usually takes me all month to read it, but if I get through have been known to buy Red as well.