The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Parsley Pays No Heed To Fierce UV Warning, Smooch and The Ant Hill Mob, and Melvyn's Wearing This Week's Top Pick Bandana **PLUS** This Week's Top Videos **AND** The Brand New Bandana Collection For July

Furbulous Greetings Supurr Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

We were a little short on time last week, so there wasn't much of a gardening update. 

Two weeks ago, we showed mew the new veggie garden under construction at the back of the house, down the narrow strip. And we also mentioned that Cat Dad had sacrificed scarified the lawn.

Anyhoo, the lawn had Round Two of scarification on the following Saturday, and Cat Dad filled another ton bag of moss.

Mew can see him wielding that electric beast on TikTok, just click here to view the video. He then used a mini spreader to sow the new grass seed, and now we're waiting as germination takes between 7 and 21 days.

The P.A. also planted the runner beans into the pots with the garden arches, she'll make a video for next week, and she also planted some peas, mew can watch that video on TikTok here. The pea seed was quite old, from a crop a couple of years ago, so she wasn't hopeful, but she was pleasantly surprised that six days later the majority of them sprouted. And after two weeks they look like this:

They've grown 3 to 4 inches or 8 to 10 cm in a week.

Here are the runner beans. They've grown about a yard, or metre high in the last couple of weeks.

The P.A. is using garden arches as supports this year, as her garden canes are not tall enough. Buy some taller ones mew say - she did, and accidentally had them delivered to work instead of BBHQ. And they wouldn't fit in the back of Cat Dad's van, so he cut them off, and now they're no taller than the previous ones! (Mew couldn't make it up! MOL)

The Catnip grown from seed in Mid-April is also flourishing, take a look at this! 

So it's all systems go in the BBHQ garden at the moment! MOL

Anyhoo, let's look at this week's top headlines.

First up in the news this week

Parsley Pays No Heed To Fierce UV Warning

It was pretty scorchio at BBHQ over the weekend, and most of us stayed indoors during the daytime. That is except for Parlsey when he escaped.

Mew see all the blinds were closed to keep the house cooler, and the P.A. went out the backdoor to hang some washing on the line, when she came back and opened the door, Parsley had positioned himself in complete stealth in the shadows within the porch, and as she checked for any sneaky cats through the window, she missed our black panther. Who, as soon as the door opened shot outside like it was 'freebie day' at the Catnip Factory!

Seriously, he's really fast and rather sneaky when he wants. So anyhoo, the P.A. tracked him down on his way along the path to the summerhouse, mew can just see a little black furry shape taunting her near the roses. 

She explained to him, that he needed to come back inside, as; 

A: She was about to burst into flames! (We think the P.A.'s a little vampiric as she is so pale and avoids the sun). 

B: Because it was a super high UV index. 

C: Black absorbs heat, and he's black! 

D: The risk of sunburn or heatstroke could be quite likely for heat-lightweights like us! 

And E: All of the above.

Needless to say, he replied with a rather blase, "Fluff Mew!" And promptly headed off under a shady bush. Several minutes later, he was sat under the gazebo at the patio doors, waiting for the door monitor to open them so he could return to the cool breeze of the fan.

Seriously mew couldn't make it up! MOL

Next up in the news

 Smooch and The Ant Hill Mob

Smooch went out around 6.30pm on Sunday evening as the wind had got up and really cooled things down no end. So while he was languishing on the rather sparse BBHQ lawn (See above for video of what happened to the lawn) on a little patch of green with a weed flower the P.A. hasn't yet removed.

He's just got himself in a really comfy spot, when the Ant Hill Mob appeared. Yep, the lawn has multiple ant hills and Smooch had sat on one.

Luckily the P.A. was there to brush them off him and move him to a better location, an ant-free one, on the bench on the deck.

The ants are really quite hostile, the P.A. has noticed when she's weeding the borders around the edge of the lawn, they come out of nowhere and are suddenly crawling all over her hands and arms.

As mew can imagine in true BBHQ tradition, this will soon be remedied.

Smooch offered to get the flame thrower out of the bunker, yet, surprisingly the P.A. declined the thoughtful offer, citing that she didn't want crispy, burnt flower borders.

So we've put it to Angel Humphrey in his brand new R & D Laboratory (Research and Development) to come up with a solution to the aggressive Ant Hill Mob.

Finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

Melvyn finally got to wear the Purrtastic Peach Blossom bandana, and doesn't he look such a sweetie?

He's really got his catwalk strut on this week, and even did a partial jog! MOL

Though on his final walk, he only made it halfway up the catwalk and had to stop, citing he needed treats immediately and somepawdy to fan him! 

Cod help us if he ever gets an agent...

Check out Melvyn's catwalk runs here :

TikTok

Instagram

YouTube

 

Which one should he model next?

Here's the brand new bandana collection for July.

The options from the top left in a clockwise direction:

1. 100's and 1000's of Purrs

2.  Luscious Leopards

3. Popcorn-Tastic

4. Crazy Daisies

Tell us your top pick for next week in the comments!

EXTRA, EXTRA!

Check out this week's top videos:

AI Commando Cats - Nearly like The B Team!  - TikTok

Birdwatching with Pandora - Instagram

Happy Monday from Parsley - YouTube

That's us done for today, Amber will be back on Friday with another fab book just for mew and if mew missed any other posts, here are the links:

The B Team's Westbury White Horse Selfie

Brain Training with Cats

Fudge's Birthday Pawty and Giveaway 

Mew've still got time to enter Fudge's epic giveaway, the cut-off time is 5pm GMT today.

And don't forget it's Melvyn's 6th Birthday next Tuesday, and we'll be pawtying hard again! MOL

Until Friday...

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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