She

She magazine promises style, real lives, solutions, inspiration, fashion, food, homes and wellbeing so it has quite a lot to live up to. Lets see if it delivers. I got my August 2008 copy of She magazine free from an offer in Scotland on Sunday but it generally costs £3.30 and is published monthly. If you decided to subscribe then it costs £1.50 per issue paid by direct debit. This is a magazine that is aimed at the 30 something woman who has kids and a career but who still wants to look good. It has 177 pages although probably about half of these are adverts. This months magazine has Davina McCall on the front cover with an exclusive ...

Actually i like SHE. I've even been a subscriber in the past, but I am starting to wonder whether I'm the only 30-something who has other things on her mind than sex. I've seen SHE change over the years I've been a regular reader.....some changes have to be beneficial (and let's face it, no change is easy!) but I have seen the mag slide from being a good all round read, to being obsessed with how to have an orgasm and a lot of what seems to me idle chat. If you want to navel gaze in your relationship, this is the place to do it. If your sex life needs something-but-you-don't-know-what, then this may well be the mag for you. The Couples ...

I was pleasantly surprised by this recently - having stopped reading this years ago when they relaunched it as a title for 'women of a certain age with children'. Yeuk. Plus that doesn't apply to me. This, unlike so many other women's magazine has certainly improved of late. Perhaps surprisingly, it's not all babies and knitting - there are a good range of very intelligent articles - not quite up to Marie Claire standard perhaps, but certainly getting there. The overall tone was far from 'mumsy' the fashion, and especially beauty, was good quality and there was a good freebie - with the promise of more to come. Tempted as I ...