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Why Group Dining Is Making a Comeback: The Social Side of Eating Out

Why Group Dining Is Making a Comeback: The Social Side of Eating Out

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For years, eating out has been associated with convenience. Busy people could grab a quick lunch, order takeaway after work or meet a friend for a short coffee without making a full occasion of it. Yet there is another side to dining that is becoming popular again: sitting around a table with a group of people and enjoying a meal together.

Group dining is making a comeback because people are looking for more meaningful social experiences. Friends want to catch up properly, families want to spend quality time together, and colleagues are finding reasons to socialise outside the workplace. A restaurant can provide the perfect setting for all of these moments.

The appeal is not simply about food. It is about conversation, connection and the memories created while sharing an experience with other people.

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LUSH Magic Crystal Body Scrub is a fantastic freebie

LUSH Magic Crystal Body Scrub is a fantastic freebie

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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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Trying the new Wagamama x Buldak menu

Trying the new Wagamama x Buldak menu

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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.

Buldak Fire Wings

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Sosig board game - Build a long sausage

Sosig board game – Build a long sausage

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[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.

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How to make a Backyard Mini-Pond

How to make a Backyard Mini-Pond

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[Ad- gifted collab] 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:

  • A bucket, either an old, upcycled one or one purchased from a store.
  • Bricks
  • Rocks
  • Pond Plants (optional)
  • Large Sticks

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