FAVOURITE: Oh Comely Magazine

I first stumbled across this quirky magazine, while in WHSmith in Waterloo Station, hastily trying my best to find something vaguely interesting to read. Most magazines in a news agents usually include the dialogue of hacked phone calls of celebrities, or tips about how to achieve a new hairstyle fad. Scanning the shelves as best as I possibly could, nothing seemed to interest me in the slightest, until... behind a Vogue magazine, Oh Comely, with the simplest of covers showed its face. With only 5 minutes before my train left, I grabbed it on a whim, went to the till and bought some strawberry Smints.

Pleased with myself that I had found a seat, I sat on the train, and opened the magazine in front of me. I had no idea what to expect. I was so surprised, I had never seen nothing like it before, on the first page I read there were pictures of letters, the readers had sent, with stickers covering every inch of the envelopes. The articles were actually interesting and the images so thoughtful. One page warned me that "this magazine will make you smile", however this caution was said too late, the magazine had already made me smile, several times! Some of the pictures were quite frankly, very strange, but they made me think differently about the simplest objects.

It was the kind of magazine that you could read again and again like a book, and never get bored. The  artwork was the kind you could easily frame. After reading the magazine, cover to cover, I realised I hadn't bought the latest edition, but that didn't matter.