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The Utterly Inessential Travel Shopping List: Staycations, luggage and a £45,000 private jet trip to the Maldives
Country Life's travel editor Rosie Paterson shares some ideas as we all start thinking once more about holidays.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: How to do country walking in proper style
The country walking habit seems to have stuck, even in these days when lockdown is easing.
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The Utterly Inessential Father's Day Shopping List, from super-luxury to a big old box of beer
We'll tell you what he wants. What he really, really wants.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Pictish gin, Cotswolds veg, and the mice you want in your kitchen
Victoria Marston is your guide to this week's immaculate collection of things that you really, really don't need.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Dressing for dinner, lockdown-style
Let's be honest: we've all let standards slip a bit (well, a lot) since lockdown began. That ends here.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Glorious garden furniture, from perfect parasols to a love seat for a ménage a trois
One of the great frustrations of the 2020 lockdown has been the extraordinary good weather. The answer to making the most of it is, of course, garden furniture.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The finest lounging-around-the house clothes money can buy
Tracksuit bottoms made from cashmere, shoes without pesky laces to tie and untie all the time and silk pyjamas that would make Terry-Thomas wince with pleasure make the cut in this week's list.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Cheese by the wheel-load, ducklings by post and sticky ginger pudding
There's a corner of the internet where the only rule is that things must be lovely — and you just found it. Victoria Marston will be your guide.
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The Utterly Inessential Working From Home shopping list: Desks, speakers and magical gizmos from £35 to £8,500
You don't need to sprinkle a bit of luxury into your working from home set-up. But it helps.
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The Utterly Inessential Easter shopping list: Whisky and chocolates, solid-cheese 'eggs' and the madness of Champagne meeting lipstick
Easter will be a little different this year, but it's still a time for treats and celebration as we wave goodbye to winter and Lent.
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The Utterly Inessential Spring Shopping List: A few of life’s little luxuries to brave the strange time between winter and summer
The time between winter and summer has been made all the more strange by the current circumstances. However, there's nothing like a little retail therapy to make one prepared to face the coming season, whatever it may hold. Alexandra Fraser rounds up some of her spring favourites.
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The Utterly Inessential Mother's Day Shopping List: The gins, gifts and experiences to brighten up your mother's Sunday
Let's face it, your mother would be happy with breakfast in bed and some hand-picked flowers. But, if you're considering something a little more special, this list seems like a good place to start.
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The Utterly Inessential Storm Shopping List: An umbrella for two, a jacket which doubles as a tent and the recipe for fluffy cinnamon buns
The weather the last few weeks has been awful and the way that it had affected certain parts of the UK is certainly no joke. However, for those who are trying to look on the lighter side of things, Alexandra Fraser has picked a few products which may rage calm against the storm.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Spring flowers, rugby shirts and sterling silver Marmite lids
Alexandra Fraser takes a look at a few things set to brighten up the end of your winter, from a non-denominational rugby shirt to a £145 sterling sliver marmite lid. No, we're not joking.
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The Utterly Inessential Valentine's Shopping List Part II: Pink gin, heart-shaped earrings and a dog bed for the true love of your life
Every year, we round up the top gifts one could possibly give without going over-the-top-crazy for Valentine's Day. Fortunately, this year our Utterly Inessential columnist is in love. Unfortunately, her heart still belongs to gin. You can't win them all.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The most utterly stylish four poster beds on the market right now
Four-poster beds are the cornerstone of any good childhood interior-design-related dream. Alexandra Fraser explores some of the most opulent on the market right now.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Helping you to maintain 'New Year, new me' for at least another month
With one more week to know, it's an uphill battle to maintain those January resolutions. Here are a few things which you absolutely do not need to continue your fight for a cleaner, greener life, but which may help a little regardless.
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The Utterly Inessential Sales Shopping List: From Britain's finest shops to refreshing your house in the name of charity
Utterly Inessential is back with the things which you‘d rather have received for Christmas itself, but have resigned yourself to purchasing in the January sales.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: 10 things which under no circumstance should you ever, ever purchase
At the end of 2019, we look back on the crème de la crème of Utterly Inessential, mulling over what we thought then and whether our opinions have softened much. Spoiler: They haven't.
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The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The billionaire's advent calendar and a perfect barbecue for mid-winter al fresco
An object that is quite possibly the greatest advent calendar ever made graces our list this week, as well as a baffling tool whose unspoken feature is its ability to impart a feeling of wellbeing.
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The Utterly Inessential Cosy Shopping List: Wrap up warm, winter is almost here
Teeth chattering? Legs shaking? Can't feel your fingers? Winter is finally here (almost), and so is the cosiest edition of our weekly shopping list to date.
