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Wednesday, 26 March 2025

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Smooch Enjoying A Meautiful Sunspot, Fudge's Horror at The Catmint Taking Too Long To Grow, Fudge's Using Sheer Force of Will To Make The Catmint Grow, Parsley Trying to Avoid Fudge's Outburst, and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Top Pick Bandana

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 Epic Greetings Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

Happy Wednesday fluffies, and what a glorious few days it's been. We've had some supurr sunspots, and we also had a nice rainy Caturday afternoon. And we say nice rain because, after the initial cloudburst, it was a slow and steady pitter-patter, NOT the usual deluge, which then means flooding; it was just what the garden needed, as it's been so dry. 

So much so that the P.A. had to get the hosepipe on to fill all the birdbaths around the garden and then water some of the pots on Friday morning. So the rain was a nice blessing.

We thought mew like like to see some more BBHQ flowers. Below are some violas, which are an incredible shade of purple with electric blue centres; they are totally mesmerising in real life.

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And here are some pretty primroses; these grow all over the garden, self-set, so they pop up in the Spring like little colourful surprises in the most random of places. And then, when they've finished flowering, the P.A. moves them into the garden borders for next year.

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We love that shade of yellow, it's just so fluffing happy, it's almost criminal! MOL

Righty ho, after all of that, here's this week's top headlines.

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First up in the news this week...

Smooch Enjoying A Meautiful Sunspot


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This was Smooch on Monday lunchtime, completely zonked out under the gazebo, with not a care in the world.

Meanwhile, below, Fudge was having all on not to flip the fluff out!

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Next up in the news...

 Fudge's Horror at The Catmint Taking Too Long To Grow


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On Monday lunchtime, while Smooch was taking it easy, fully reclined in a lovely little hotspot shown above, Fudge was freaking out by the summerhouse and as another catmint plant had been pruned.

"I DON'T FLUFFING BELIEVE IT!" he shrieked. "IS NOTHING SACRED IN THIS GARDEN ANYMORE?"

Parsley, who was watching through the foliage from the path, decided to keep very quiet - see below.

At the time of snapping the above picture, Fudge was locked in a deep internal battle, trying to control his overwrought senses from going into a complete meltdown.

Smooch, being the ever-helpful dude he is, shouted from his epically stress-free reclining fest under the gazebo. "Fudge, dude, would mew like to come help mew with some breathing exercises?"

Sadly, we can't print the reply! #ohdear

The chief pruner, aka the P.A., has declined to comment on this matter until further investigations have been carried out.

>^.^<

 Fudge's Using Sheer Force of Will To Make The Catmint Grow


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Mew may remember a few weeks ago that Fudge was traumatised by this particular plant being pruned. If mew missed it, click here to catch up.

In utter desperation last week, he tried employing the sheer force of will method to get the catmint growing! 

Just look at the epic levels of concentration happening; mew could literally feel the energy radiating off him. It was utterly astounding.

But sadly, several days later, the catmint has not responded in the manner he was hoping for! MOL

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In other news...

Parsley Trying to Avoid Fudge's Outburst


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Parsley, who by pure chance was sitting on the path minding his own business, while Smooch was under the gazebo and Fudge was freaking out.

He decided in this moment to close his eyes and lock on to those zen harmonies from earlier in the day when he joined in with Smooch's breathing exercises on the latest Colouring with Cats! (see link below).

He also decided that if he couldn't see Fudge, Fudge couldn't see him, and thereby, he wouldn't get dragged into the new Catmint Gate unfolding at BBHQ! MOL

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And finally, this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

Melvyn is modelling the last of the March bandana collection, Spring Vibes, and he's absolutely loving it! 

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He's feeling so fluffing epic; it's not measurable by any instrument on Earth! MOL

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Which one should he model next?


Here's the brand new April Bandana collection, hot off the sewing machine in the BBHQ Craft Room. These were made on Monday teatime under the expert eye of Fudge, who was hanging around the craft room and needed a distraction.

 As spring is now officially here, we chose some more colourful and bright bandanas for this month. 

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The April Collection:

1.  Ballooning with Furiends* ~ Blue 

2. Spring Freshness

3. Peony Purrfection 

4. Cute Pink Cats

5. Blooming Marvellous

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

*Melvyn modelled the Ballooning with Furiends with a white background last September, and we've been waiting to make the blue version since then. We just checked out the videos we posted in September, and there's a really cute 'get ready with me' where he's prepping for the catwalk run; OMC, it's so cute! 
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That's us done for today. 

Amber will be back on Friday with another pawesome book, and if mew missed any other posts, here are the links:

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Check out the latest episodes of The Purrminator, as tomorrow, we'll be back with Chapter Twenty in Melvyn's epically epic, supurr exciting origin story. 

And if mew weren't here on Caturday, mew may have missed Chapter Nineteen - link below - we posted two last week as the chapters weren't very long, but for Cods sake, don't miss tomorrow's episode!











Hoping mew have a furbulous day, and remember to always...

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Sunday, 23 March 2025

Smooch's Supurr Lounging Selfie on The Sunday Selfies Blog Hop and Caturday Art Blog Hop

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Furbulous Sunday greetings furiends

Welcome to another BBHQ selfie selection, and today Smooch is showing how lounge to purrfection. He was enjoying a bit of time under the gazebo, and took epic pride in getting a supurr loungy as possible!

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We think he nailed clawed it! MOL

Just look at the complete catsisfaction radiating from him.

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We're also joining in Athena's Fabulous Art Hop so do stop by and show off your pawesome arty-farty skills.

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The effect was created with Befunky - AI Enhancer, Poly Art 2 + colour changes to hue and saturation.

We also turned this fab arty-farty picture into a puzzle, so do stop by the puzzle page and take the Puzzle Challenge, see if mew can beat our time of 12 mins 29 secs. 

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Anyhoo it's time for us to go and lounge around ourselves! MOL

Smooch is snoopervising in the kitchen for a change, in fact we think he's getting more like a celebrity chef everyday! 

We do hope mew have an epic day, and look forward to your company in the morning when we're back with more supurr fun Colouring with Cats.

In the meantime...
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Saturday, 22 March 2025

**THE PURRMINATOR** **A BRAND NEW B TEAM ADVENTURE FOR 2025** **CHAPTER NINETEEN**

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The Purrminator is an action-packed experience that takes mew on a journey through a world of perilous danger with oodles of excitement, though sometimes in a scary way. With depictions of spine-tingling encounters, the story draws mew in, making mew feel as though mew are right there with young Melvyn, fighting for survival as he's relentlessly hunted by the evil cyborg machines, known as Purrminators, as he tries to find his Great Uncle Basil through time and space. Oh my Cod, will he make it?

HOLD ON TIGHT, GUYS; THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE WILD, FLUFFING ADVENTURE!!!

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If mew missed the start of this brand-new adventure, click the links below:

Chapter One    Chapter Two    Chapter Three     Chapter Four     Chapter Five

 Chapter Six     Chapter Seven     Chapter Eight      Chapter Nine     Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven      Chapter Twelve     Chapter Thirteen      Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen     Chapter Sixteen     Chapter Seventeen     Chapter Eighteen

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Chapter Nineteen

Echoes From The Past

            Bomber grimaced at Commander Basil’s response. Shadow looked at the ground and sighed. This was not the reaction they were hoping for.

“Commander Basil,” Bomber said. “I understand your reluctance to believe us. However, my squad and I are from a distant future in a different timeline, and I can assure you that where we are from, you had one littermate. A sister called Lavender, who was born two minutes after you, and although you were separated when you were still kittens. You never forgot her.”

Basil stood staring wide-eyed at the huge cat before him. It seemed a lifetime ago as an ambush of memories buried deep, deep in the abyss of his psyche erupted. His throat constricted, jaw clenched, and his eyes blinked several times as he fought the emotions trying to erupt from the very core of his soul.

“Lavender survived in your timeline?” he choked back the tears.

“Yes, although it was in the distant past, obviously for us, she was part of our history,” Bomber replied.

Basil looked stunned. “I need to sit down,” he said as he walked on trembling paws to the bench, as a myriad of emotions fought to overwhelm him. "I never dared to dream that she survived in other timelines..."

Bomber and Shadow glanced at each other and moved towards the bench. They crouched down and looked at Commander Basil, the most famous cat in all feline history, throughout every dimension and every timeline. The one true Commander Basil who literally changed worlds and was revered through time and space, past, present and future.

Basil took a breath, wiped his eyes and looked at the two Maine Coons crouching before him. “Dudes, my sister died here. She was my almost identical twin, and losing her…” he paused as he let the buried emotions rise and release. “Losing her nearly broke me. We were so small, and she was all I had, and then she was gone.”

The Maine Coons knew the facts of what had happened in this timeline but said nothing. They knew at some point, they would have to impart the information, but not right now in this moment.

Shadow looked at his brother. “We know that loss so well, Commander,” he said. “We, my brother and I lost our brother when we were kittens…”

A heavy silence hung like a dark shroud encompassing the station as the three cats each mourned the loss of a loved one.

A few minutes later, Basil gave himself a mental shake and cleared his throat as he reconciled so many feelings and sentiments. Realising that there would be time in the not-too-distant future to find out more about his sister, but first, he must save her son. And then it hit him; in his sister's timeline, he was the one who died. 'Stop!' he thought. 'There's time for me to process this later. Right now I need to focus on saving Melvyn!'

Looking at Shadow and Bomber, he reached forward and put his paws on their shoulders. He nodded in acknowledgement of their loss, sucked in a breath, and said. “Let’s go get my nephew!”

**AND CUT**

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Fluff me sideways and roll me treacle, we can't catch our breath... the tears are streaming here...

Guys, mew know how we roll; so many apologies once again for cutting it right there.

If mew would like to read Chapter Twenty, let us know in the comments.

Don't forget to check out yesterday's pawesome book review.

In the meantime...


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