I never buy magazines apart from the Sainsbury's one. You pay £££s for a load of glossy adverts for things you wouldn't dream of buying, interspersed with a few articles you might or might not be interested in.
I get the magazines from the RHS, Cats Protection, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the National Trust as part of my memberships, an annual one from my old Uni college, and one from Versus Arthritis. I occasionally pick up the free one from Tesco. Nothing from Immediate Media as far as I know, and it will stay that way.
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I read magazines, including Gardeners World, for free via the Libby app. Lots of free books too. You do need to be a member of your local library to register.
I think reading magazines online via a library still indirectly supports the publisher. I assume the library (or whoever's running the libby app) has to pay for them. I know that university libraries have to pay quite a lot to provide online access to scientific and other academic journals, so I assume the same is true for public libraries and publications aimed at the general public (maybe even more so because of the potentially wider readership).
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I gave up on GW magazine a few years ago when advertising was vastly exceeding the amount of actual content. I accept that advertising is required but GW wasn't exactly cheap.
Beware of 'AI' (reactive chatbot) scams. I have now had two calls from a 'woman' who purported to be from some Gov energy initiative. The voice is very realistic to the degree that both my kids thought the person was real. I would suggest that if you get such a call, ask the person something - maths 'what is the square root of....', history, geography etc anything that they should know. My caller said to me when I asked her what 2x2 was '...I do not deserve to be spoken to like that. I am going to terminate the call...'. Just be very wary - as I think this type of thing will become more and more common.
I made the mistake of driving today at the time the 'little darlings' were being collected from school. God knows how their mothers ever passed a driving test! I was trying to get to our local shop, and despite their being a queue of traffic trying to get out onto the main road they seemed oblivious to the fact that they were blocking access to the shop car park. I finally managed to get parked and when I came out of the shop one woman had parked her BMW completely on the pavement outside the shop. Unfortunately I didn't have a bag with a nice sharp zip on it available.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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