Utterly Inessential Shopping List

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.

The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: How to do country walking in proper style

The Utterly Inessential Father's Day Shopping List, from super-luxury to a big old box of beer

The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Pictish gin, Cotswolds veg, and the mice you want in your kitchen

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.

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.

The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The finest lounging-around-the house clothes money can buy

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.

The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Super-luxury board games for the bored and well-heeled

Never again will you be able to look at your charity shop-sourced Scrabble set with the same light in your eyes.

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.

The Utterly Inessential Easter shopping list: Whisky and chocolates, solid-cheese 'eggs' and the madness of Champagne meeting lipstick

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.

The Utterly Inessential Mother's Day Shopping List: The gins, gifts and experiences to brighten up your mother's Sunday

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 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.

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.

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.

The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Helping you to maintain 'New Year, new me' for at least another month

The Utterly Inessential Red Shopping List: No-holds barred options for Valentine's Day — or anyone who just really likes red

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.