Writing, fatshion, me: Food and Alcohol in Barnsley with Sam

On the 6th of July I met up in Barnsley with Sam. Lee was going to York to go to a festival, and I could have gone, or I could have stayed at home by myself, but I decided to see if anyone was free for food and drinks. Sam was, so we made plans to go to The Salt House for bottomless brunch. I have been in there once before, but haven't had bottomless brunch in there before. It's £40 and although the service was a bit slow it seemed like pretty good value.

We arrived about 12.15 and first of all we were put at a table that wasn't suitable for me. So then we moved upstairs. It was a more comfortable table but I am a bit annoyed that I had to go upstairs. Never mind. The drinks on the brunch menu are pretty good - we went for a rose prosecco to start with, and also had some pornstar martinis and other stuff. You can also choose two dishes off the menu and either fries or rice. The menu is not huge but it's pretty evenly split between vegetarian and not, so there were loads for me to choose from. I went for mac and cheese croquettes and mushroom bao buns, both of which were delicious, and fries.

As I said, the service wasn't the fastest ever but we still got a good number of drinks before our time was up. We then walked to Wetherspoons. Barnsley's Wetherspoons is not very big and it's generally really full. There was also a football match on later in the afternoon, so I said it would be better to go there first before it got really busy. We ended up being able to get a table near the door and it was fine. Sam has the app so she ordered a bottle of wine to share.

Then we walked across to Falco Lounge. It was almost empty in there, but the football wasn't on so maybe everyone was trying to find that instead. We had three cocktails in there and also some dessert - I had a caramel brownie sundae. My cocktails were reallly nice, as they always are in there. I like it. By this time we were quite drunk, as you can imagine, so around 6pm we said goodbye.

I waited for a bus but when it came it went right past me even though I had my hand out, which was annoying. So I decided to wait for a taxi and I eventually got home. I laid down for a bit, hoping to sleep, but couldn't! So I got up, had some leftover mushroom soup, and chilled out before bed. Lee didn't get back until past midnight!

I was wearing this Scarlett and Jo dress that I've had for over a decade now. I absolutely love it and it always feels really nice to wear. I had mostly forgotten about it but rearranged some stuff recently and found it. So I thought I would drag it out again!

I put some make up on to go out, including this Charlotte Tilbury lipstick that Georgina sent me - isn't it a lovely colour?

It was a bit sunny but it rained too in town, but the fountains in the centre are absolutely lovely when the water cascades down them. When it was sunny there were kids running through them and so on. I really like this part of Barnsley now they've redone it