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Lunch at Imm-Aroy (in their new location)

Posted on September 24, 2026September 24, 2026 by Jupiter

I have previously had mango sticky rice at Imm-Aroy when they were located in Chinatown, but now they’ve moved to a new spot where they have a sit-down menu! This was very excited, so when my friend was next in town, we decided to go over to Imm-Aroy and see if the food was good.

Thai Boat Noodle Soup

I got the Thai Boat Noodle Soup as starter and Gary got it as a main. This broth was bubbling away by the door and smelled absolutely stunning! It’s a beef broth, with meat balls, stewed beef, and noodles. We both picked vermicelli noodles, as they are our favorite. The broth was slightly sweet, very rich, and there were plenty of toppings you could add on. I added a dash of chili flakes to mine! The beef was pull a part tender and the meatballs were dense, like you get with Thai meatballs.

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Panic Room Harlow – The UFO Conspiracy Escape Room

Posted on September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 by Jupiter

We’ve done a few escape rooms at The Panic Room Harlow, including Sherlock Holmes and Return to the Tomb. Eventually, we will have played them all! On a slow Sunday, we decided to go to The Panic Room to play the original escape room, also called The Panic Room, but it’s got the sub name of The UFO Conspiracy as that is what it is all about. Robin was especially excited about this escape room, as it’s the first and we should have probably started there. Amelia and Kai were very interested in the room and wondered if it would have been updated or if it had changed over time.

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Clickeez Clickable Bubble Pops – Keyboard-styled fidgets

Posted on September 22, 2026October 6, 2026 by Jupiter

[Ad – Gifted Products] Fidgets have been a popular sub-genre of toys for quite some time now, and we’ve got so, so many of them! Yet, every single year, we see more and more coming out. Robin got some keyboard-style clicking fidgets at MCM Comic Con earlier this year and some Clickeez at Toy Fair, so was excited to discover the Clickeez Clickable Bubble Pops.

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Halloween is Back at LUSH!

Posted on September 21, 2026September 17, 2026 by Jupiter

[Ad – Gifted Products] It’s now officially Autumn, so the stores all over have switched to more Halloween items. I absolutely love seeing all of the Halloween items out, so went to our local LUSH store to check out their Halloween range, which features a bunch of past favorites along with a new new things! Here’s a little look at what our store had.

Halloween Bath Bombs

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Cut Shapes for Moss Agate: How the Outline Frames the Stone

Posted on September 20, 2026October 6, 2026 by Contributor

With most gemstones, the cut is an optical decision. Facet angles are calculated to return light, and the outline that results is almost a byproduct. Moss agate does not work that way. It is translucent rather than transparent, so it is usually finished as a cabochon or a flat-faceted slice, and light does not bounce around inside it the way it does in a faceted sapphire. What the cutter is really deciding is composition. A moss agate kite cut engagement ring and an oval version of the same rough can look like two entirely different stones, because the outline is the frame and the dendritic pattern is the picture hanging inside it.

The outline is a frame, not a light engine

Moss agate is a chalcedony, a microcrystalline quartz that carries branching mineral inclusions of iron or manganese oxide. Those dendrites look like ferns or forest canopy, but nothing organic is trapped inside. They grew as mineral formations while the chalcedony was forming, which is why the patterns are irregular, directional, and completely unrepeatable from one stone to the next.

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