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What’s the Best Thing? – Ranking Based Card Game

Posted on December 30, 2025December 26, 2025 by Jupiter

[Ad- gifted product] When it comes to board games, we play a large range of them! Every other Monday, Amelia, Robin, Dann and I have some shakes and play some board games at our local Geek Retreat while Kai goes off to the gym. This sort of after school activity is one that everyone really looks forward too, especially when it comes to hanging out as a family together. This week, our board game was What’s the Best Thing? which is a compact party game that works better if you really know the people you are playing with.

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Christmas Cat-Astrophe Escape Room at KnownEscape

Posted on December 29, 2025December 28, 2025 by Jupiter

In the colder months, when there isn’t much sunshine, we tend to book up an escape room or two! This time, we went to KnownEscape in Bishop’s Stotford for their Christmas Cat-Astrophe Escape Room, which is a Christmas version of their Crazy Cat Lady escape room that they run during the year. This Christmas theme is shown through the decorations in the room and through the slight change in puzzles, though we haven’t been to their original version of the game, we are pretty sure it would be very similar.

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My Christmas Gifts 2025

Posted on December 26, 2025December 26, 2025 by Jupiter

I feel like I write so many gift guides and check out so many “what I got X” videos, that it would be interesting to share what I did end up getting for Christmas. I do a lot of giving out gifts and have a big friendship circle – we actually had three different Christmas parties this year that we hosted along with our family Christmas too! I do not expect gifts or anything like that, but I am always excited when I do get one. I am a very easy person to shop for, as I very much love food and little treats, especially this time of year.

Cheese Basket

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The Best Christmas Markets in Vienna

Posted on December 25, 2025December 28, 2025 by Jupiter

Dann and I went on a trip to Vienna Austria, to check out the Christmas markets there. It has been one of Dann’s bucket list items to go to the proper Christmas markets. We actually always go to quite a few in England, but they are based around proper, traditional Christmas markets. So, when a friend of ours offered to show us around Austria and plan an entire trip for us, we obviously were going to say yes! We ended up going to several Christmas markets each and every day – all of these are just a few hours from London by plane, so it’s well worth thinking about it for your end of December or even next year. I attempted to eat kartoffelpuffer at each of the places as well. This is a potato pancake, similar to latkes, with garlic all over it. All of these different Christmas markets had their own mugs as well, which you can sort of keep if you don’t mind paying the deposit too!

Rathausplatz Christkindlmarkt

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Custom Paint by Numbers from Davincified

Posted on December 24, 2025December 26, 2025 by Jupiter

[Ad – Gifted Products] Paint by Numbers is a concept that has been around for so long! It’s just one of those classic things that feels perfect for a rainy day or a bit of calm time in the afternoon. Davincified has a selection of paint by number kits where you can upload your own images and allow them to create a custom kit for you. Some of these kits just transform your picture into a paint by number canvas, while others can edit the picture to make it look like a magical scene or like your person can be in a Disney film, for example. It’s a very interesting idea, with so many options, making it a great gift idea for someone too.

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