The Silo Restaurant and Gift Shop is a pretty interesting place to eat at in Upstate New York. My cousins wanted to go here, as one of them really loves the eggs benedict crab cakes, and wanted to show me the place. We went with my dad for a breakfast and then a bit of an explore around the gift shop aspect of The Silo. But first, let’s get into the food.
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[Ad – Gifted Products] LUSH has a variety of different products, but between now and August 23rd, shopping via my Friends of LUSH link will result in you getting a free jar of Magic Crystal Body Scrub if you spend £15 or more on anything within the LUSH shop. I absolutely do love purple things and who doesn’t need a bit of exfoliating, so I am here to tell you all about this freebie.
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[Ad- gifted experience] We are a big fan of Wagamama in our household, with one opening up in our town a few years back, which we often go to! Wagamama has Japanese-inspired dishes, which come out as and when they are ready. Their menus are often changing, with new features coming and going. Their latest collab, Wagamama x Buldak, added two new menu items that are full of spice. Robin, our in-house spice queen became very excited to try these! She has been a fan of buldak ramen (along with sriracha) for quite some time.
[Ad – Gifted Products] Another Monday, another time to go to our local Geek Retreat and try out a game! This time, we went with Sosig, which is a bite-sized card game which could fit in your pocket, really. This tiny card game is all about building sausages that customers order, so that you can get points! The instructions are extremely straight forward (maybe too straight forward!) which makes the game easy to play.
[Ad- gifted collab]Â A few years back Dann and I made a little flower-pot pond, they were going viral on the internet and we wanted to give it a try! It’s been thriving in our backyard since, and we love looking out into the garden and seeing it. I find these little ponds to be so fun to build and watch change. We’ve seen birds taking drinks, smaller bugs on the plants and sometimes even see butterflies fluttering about! Recently Essex Local Nature Recovery Strategy has challenged people in our area to boost their local ecosystem’s biodiversity, so we’ve partnered with them to create a second mini pond, and we’ll tell you how!
Creating a mini pond is actually really easy and you can often recycle a lot of the materials that you need. We used:
