Country Living mag?

[Oola]

I've not yet found the latest issue of CL on the shelves yet. Anyone else found somewhere selling it yet? I used to get it on subscription (almost typed 'prescription' there!) but didn't renew this year...seems to be quite a delay at the moment. Wonder if this is just my area or the due to the postal strikes? I'm sure it's usually out by now.

[Sparrow]

Hi Oola,

CL always used to be available in the shops on the 18th of the month. That's when I asked my parents to go and get one for me (when I was about to arrive in the UK). But I think you are right about the mailed version - the postal strike will be the issue.

[Oola]

Oh right - I always thought it was much earlier - around 12th-15th or something :)

[sunflower]

I bought mine today That's in Dorset. Looks good and full of Autumn colours. Hope you get yours soon.

[Crocus]

Now how must I feel far away in S.A. when you go on about the CL magazine?
It will probably be an age before it's here. Ah heck! The other side of the coin though, when you've read through yours, I only start to read mine! Aaaah nice! Enjoy your mags! :) :)

[JerseyLily]

What other mags do you all take?

Don't laugh, I always keep copies of The Peoples' Friend in guest bedrooms and bathrooms along with Period Living, Country Living and, Country Homes & Interiors.

To be quite honest, I prefer the latter to Country Living these days as CL has gone a little too far toward being a glossy farmers' monthly.

[franbee]

I subscribe to Prima and Essentials as well as CL. Although I do like the other interiors mags, I like CL because the farm and country articles remind me of my childhood, and the forums (especially this one) give me a chance to chat to like-minded people, not many of them round here. Fran.

[Pippa]

My CL arrived today. Congrats. Franbee you have been quoted from website on page 175, your post about the weather.

[franbee]

Don't tell me anything! Mine's not arrived yet. But I have been quoted from the website before.

[Crocus]

25 Beautiful Homes, Country Homes and Interiors, Period Ideas, Period Living. Hubby enjoys UK magazines on caravanning, motorhomes, canal boats.

[Pippa]

Oh fame at last Franbee! BTW love your avatar but when I look at it quickly it appears to be an anteater, then I realise it is a paw and not a snout.

[Serenity]

Hi all,my CL hasn't arrived yet but it sounds like its on its way. The only other magazine that I subscribe to is Period Living.

What do you all do with your magazines when you've read them?

I keep my CL's, but any others get passed on to my mother in law who passes them on to a friend of hers who knows where they end up after that!

[franbee]

I keep my mags for about 1 year then flick through them again and pass them on, to whoever happens to be there. My cousin passes them on to her GP surgery. BTW if you read my 'questionnaire', you'll see I wrote not to be more famous 'than I already am'. Fran.

[Oola]

I also read Country Life now and then, although I think £3.20 or whatever it is is pretty pricey for a weekly mag! Rich and I flick through looking at all the houses and dreaming about being able to afford one of them one day. We've got our favourite - a white stone house perched high on a hill looking out to see, in Mousehole in Cornwall (love it round there, used to holiday in Sennen as a teen). You can see the sea from every aspect of the house, it's just amazing.

I also regularly buy Gardener's World, sometimes Grazia or Marie Clare, whereas Rich goes for those manly staples such as Practical Classics and Flyer magazine (he wants to get his PPL eventually, having grown up under the flight path of one of Britain's most famous WW2 fighter pilot stations). Occasionally I'll buy Country Homes & Interiors, or something like Homebuilding & Renovation. I'll usually buy a couple of Christmas issues of a food and an interiors magazine too, to get ideas.

[sheddie]

I'm waiting for the Rural Muse Magazine Oola.X

[lily]

October issue says next issue due on 18th. Everything very slow post wise at the moment- several parcels in transit for a week now. I've started buying Period Living again now it's returned to a decent size. That's a lot of reading Crocus- do you go caravanning etc?

[Crocus]

Hi Lilly, yes we like caravanning. Not as much as we used to though. And yes, it is quite a lot of "homework" reading all the magazines! I cannot go without it, it's a link between me and the UK. I can't throw the mags away as well and there's were the problem lies - where to put them!

[Healing Hands]

I subscribe but have not had mine yet. Lucky you Pippa getting yours. Hope mine comes before Saturday then I can take it to Spain with me!

[Healing Hands]

Post has been and mine has arrived and it looks to be a good one this month maybe I will not be able to save it for Spain

[franbee]

Mine's come this morning too. Fran.

[Serenity]

Posties just been but still no sign of mine.

[Oola]

Got mine from WHSmiths today, then had a quick flick through over a hot choc and sandwich in the newly refurb'd BHS cafe. Then started daydreaming....again...

[sheddie]

Do you find when you read CL it can make you dissatisfied with what you have and become depressing instead of uplifting? My friend says it does this for her.

[Crocus]

Yes, sometimes it does, but it's so inspiring.....

[Healing Hands]

Yes, for me too Crocus I feel the same.

This month is such a good one as well, I just love my CL magazine. I will not say anymore as some of you have not got yours yet.

[franbee]

I love my mag, it is both frustrating and inspiring in that living where I do, it's just not CL. But talking to you guys as well and hearing how you live your lives makes me feel less 'country isolated'. It's quite country round here but the people are mostly what we call 'posers', all money and no breeding or taste. I know we could move, but the only place we could afford would be a compromise, so we make the best of it. Fran.

[Oola]

I just love looking through because it gives me something to aim for. I dream about a life that Rich and I will have in a decade or so....I find it inspiring in that instance.

I would love to bring my future family up near the coast, or at least if it's here give the childhood that I had - being able to get to the cities and towns but being not more than 5 mins from the countryside, playing in the woods (although that's frowned upon these days), bike rides through the villages and country lanes.

[Serenity]

I know what you mean Fran, although our village is semi rural its hard to identify with alot of the 'locals'. The older generation are from a well established farming community but alot of the people I meet at school etc have no interest at all in rural issues, they just like the idea of living in a village and driving a Range Rover. It amazes me that they have no connection at all with the (less materialistic) things around them.

Magazines such as Country Living and chatting on here allow me learn and discuss the things that matter to me.
Sorry for the rant!

[Redstart]

Oola

It will happen! We spent 18 years looking at the old Emmental and Oberaargau farmhouses and dreamed of owning one but never thought we ever would. Then, by chance, we discovered we could afford one if we were prepared to do some work on it. We saw this one and still thought it was a dream And now we're living in our own dream house (mind you there's still work to do in it).

And we dreamed of a perfect small market town, in the country, with small supermarket, butchers, bakery, bank, doctor, dentist, etc. And guess what. the village this farmhouse is in part of has all that as well. We really feel to have landed on our feet.

So I now read my CL and enjoy looking at the contents, but I'm no longer envious of the houses. Or the gardens. And no, my copy hasn't arrived here yet. I wonder if it will come before we leave for the UK? Delivery is so erratic, it arrives any day between the 17th and 29th. And while in the UK I will stock up on Country Homes and Interiors, Period Living and Period Ideas but won't touch them until I get back here and then I can indulge.

[jazzactivist]

I have also changed over to Country Homes and Interiors from CL as the content shrank dramatically to be replaced by inappropriate advertising and repeat photographs. CH&I seems to have picked up some of the ideas for features. I have been subscribing to Organic Gardening for many years, and also subscribe to Permaculture magazine.

[eleanor2]

what i liked about c.l when i had time on holiday to read properly was.the positive stories of how farmers were diversifying to make decent livings.whilst looking after the environment.the three men who started up the lavendar farm.were an inspiration.i found i actually read every page.i even enjoyed some of the adverts.not to buy the products but for ideas.

[Crocus]

With exchange rate, CL is quite expensive in our country. A certain book shop mark down the price once the magazines are 3 months and older. Which means I'm always behind with CL! CH&I is not as expensive here, and strangely enough, it's available from a local shop! Not my other fav. magazines though. Have to travel 150 km to get to the nearest large bookstore.

[SummerSkye]

I have missed out on CL quite a few times now. I had it ordered at the newsagency but it just didn't arrive. I can usually pick it up in a nearby town however. We are always about 2 months behind and the seasons are back to front but I love it anyway.
It is very inspirational and although I will never own a home in the U.K. it does allow me a glimpse of life in the country there. Our country is very different and much harsher but beautiful in its own way.

[Serenity]

Hooray - mine finally arrived this morning!

[Crocus]

Oh goodness me Serenity, I'm jealous! You live in Yorkshire and you have the latest CL! I'm Yorkshire Dales crazy! Anyway, enjoy Yorkshire and your CL mag! :)

[Redstart]

Crocus- I'm married into an Upper Wharfedale (Langstrothdale) family, although my niece now lives over the other side of Buckden Pike in Wensleydale with her family. My husband's family date back over 200 years in Langstrothdale on his mother's side and a similar time in Wensleydale on his father's side, although his father lived in Upper Wharfedale since a very young man. Mine are also a solidly based Yorkshire family, although not the Dales. Do you ever go towards the east coast and Ryedale when you go to Yorkshire. That area is home to me.

[Crocus]

Hi Redstart, we went to the Scarborough area, we stayed in a B&B in Helmsley, and did a lot of driving around the Moors. Awesome! uckden Pike in Wensleydale. We stayed in a cottage in New Biggin near Thoralby a few times. We are visiting the UK in the very near future, but Yorkshire is not in the list this time. We try to do a different area every time. For how many years we still have to visit I don't know, because there are just so much we want to see and do! I don't want to go anywhere else before I didn't see the whole of the UK! I'll have to live another 50 years............

[Ivy]

Still no CL here but i usually arrives on the 24th .lets see if it will n+be late due to the strike. I was actually convinced I would not renew my subscription but all of a sudden the mag became better again so I might give it an other try. I am also a subscriber to Country Homes and Interiors cant' say at the moment who's better.

[Serenity]

Hi Crocus,
Yorkshire is a lovely varied county and the Dales are beautiful, as are the North York Moors. Have you got some nice places lined up for the next time you come to the uk?

[Crocus]

Hi Serene, well yes, we are heading for Wales and then Somerset. In the past we only visited Clovelly, Tarr Steps, Postbridge and in Wales we could only manage to go to Hay-on-Wye, right on the border. This time we'll have more time, although not to much either, because we can't be away from home for to long.