What magazines do you like?

[Takver]

In a thread the other day just about everyone seemed to hate the glossies - so what magazines do people like to read. I'm talking about ones that you will actually cough up the cash to buy - not the ones you'll read if they're hanging around.
I'm asking cos I was in Smiths at Paddington station last week and couldn't find anything at all that I fancied reading on the train - so what am I missing out on? As obscure as you like.
For starters, the one magazine that I do have a subscription for is The Land - but it only comes out 3 x a year, so thats not much train reading . . .

I like New and Now and Closer.

Only buy New though.

Would not fork out for Hello or OK.

I like Sains magazine too.

I bought a Junior magaine the other day, It had an London events special in it.
I quite liked it - although it was a bit 'I live in Notting hill and buy lots of designer clothes for my children'- The fashion pages have to be sen to be believed!

But I would buy it again.

I rarely buy magazines, not enough cashflow.

If I did, I'd buy Vanity Fair, which always has huge, very interesting articles in. Bought one once for the Eurostar, it got me from Paris to Cardiff!

And if I was really loaded, with time for magazines, I'd buy CountryLiving or somesuch, to drool over the lush houses .

I like the same as Collision!
Usually buy Now and Closer.
Used to like Grazia but it has gone downhill recently.
Don't normally buy Hello or OK, except did get OK this week to see Colleen's wedding pics!

Oh and I have friends who swear by the New Yorker, it has fiction/poetry as well as serious articles. But I've not tried it myself.

Never tried Vanity Fair, what kind of articles does it have?

Paris to Cardiff sounds like what I need - tis a long way from Paddington to West Wales. What I want is the Mum equivalent of Sparkle World complete with activities

I have subscriptions to

Eve (like to get outraged at silly articles)
Ideal Home (ha, ha)
Delicious
Olive
Private Eye
Junior
Economist

Occasionally buy Fresh, car magazines, dog magazines, Good Housekeeping.

OMG PHD we love the New Yorker in nour house. It's a special treat though.

Despite finding much of it ludicrous (or perhaps because of this) I still like Vogue. I used to quite like Wired (as much for the interesting layouts as anything else, as most of the technology goes over my head), but don't see it these days unless DH goes to the US, when he usually picks up a copy at the airport.

I like Easy Living, Red and the Sainsburys magazine. And Ideal Home for the pictures!

I go through phases, but am often tempted by free gifts! I like Eve, Easy Living, She, Woman and Home [middle aged emoticon], Health and Fitness, Runners World...
Thats my usual starting place if I'm looking to treat myself.

What's Land magazine?

I've never tried the New Yorker - fiction & poems sounds good though. Is it very American ? Expensive is not so bad as I only go on long child free journeys occasionally so I think its fair enough to treat myself (when DD is with me Sparkle world it is)
What is Junior, I've never seen it? Somehow it sounds like a 50s magazine for teenaged girls.

Junior is a posh parenting magazine - the parenting equivalent of Vogue (at least where the prices and ads are concerned). Some good articles though.

Junior.

I like Grazia and I do like New etc, but I feel guilty about reading those ones .

Zest and Eve and She very occassionally.

Junior is very boring.

Look at the prices .

Easy Living
Vogue
Red
Olive
Grazia
Junior
Vanity Fair
Private Eye
The Week
Living Etc

Hmm that's quite a lot. In my defence, my DH watches a shocking amount of sport on the TV, so our quality time is him bellowing at the telly while I snuggle under a rug on the sofa next to him and imagine a life where I wear cashmere and carry a butter-soft leather bag, come up with interesting talking-point meals every evening and and pop up to town to order drapes for the beachhut in Kent.

Agree Vanity Fair is a beats of a magazine-I always saev mine for trips to London from Cardiff, and it always does me both ways on teh train.

Bit hard to summarize the Land - their latest issue contents are here - lots of stuff about the politics of land, but more interesting than it sounds IYSWIM

I like looking at 'the things' in Junior the same way I love the houses/furniture in Living Etc and the clothes in Vogue.

Is like window shopping in Harvey Nicks-gives you some good ideas for how to do it on your own budget.

Ummmm ......

Cardmaking & Papercraft
Quick Cards
Kitchen Garden
Gardeners World
Grow Your Own
Stuff
Weightwatchers Magazine

Quite specialised really

I used to get Martha Stewart Living magazine, for its bunting and cupcakeishness - gave up when I had DD though.

I think Junior might give me a severe inferiority complex - I'm more charity shop than harvey nix.
Haven't read Private eye for years, maybe I should try it again.