The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Majestic Fudge, Pitter Patter Pandora, and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Top Pick Bandana **PLUS* The Winner of Fudge's Birthday Giveaway - IS IT MEW?

Furbulous Greetings Supurr Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

Now, I know we purromised last week a look at how well the runner beans are growing, but sadly the P.A. failed miserably to create any videos this week. Seriously mew can't get the staff. Anyhoo, the runner beans are well on their way to the top of the garden arches.

So today instead, here's a blooming marvellous rose selection.

These are all double blooms and are highly fragrant.

The pink one above, is a very special rose, as it was created in memorium for the P.A.'s cousin, who's daughter sadly died from cancer a few years ago. The rose is named after her, it's called Rachel. And Rachel is planted at BBHQ next to the backdoor, so every time the P.A. walks past, she tells Rachel how beautiful she is and that she will never be forgotten. Nanny has another Rachel rose in her garden too.

We adore roses at BBHQ, and even though they've all just finished their first flowering and have been deadheaded, we can't wait for the second imminent flourish of colour and scent. Did we mention before that we have nearly 40 different roses in the garden including, ramblers, climbers, shrubs, standards and hybrid tea bushes. They are such a meautiful flower, although mew do have to be careful of the prickles! MOL

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

First up in the news this week

Majestic Fudge

Fudge was chillaxing in the catservatory, and for some reason he was feeling so money supermarket, but he wouldn't tell us why?!

What do mew think he's up to? 

And should we be worried?

Also, do mew think it involves the latest catnip crop?

Or is he selling Amber's books on the quiet?

Next up in the news

Pitter Patter Pandora

We had a couple of showers at BBHQ, and Pandora was listening to the pitter patter of the rain on the catservatory roof.

It's very soothing and relaxing, until a heavy downpour comes along and then it's like armageddon in there! MOL

Finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

Guys, it was a draw between the Crazy Daisies and the Popcorn-Tastic bandanas, so Melvyn made the executive decision to wear the Popcorn-Tastic this week. He said the yellow really enhanced the colours of his eyes! MOL

See, they are like deep pools of citrine! 

Oh, and don't look at all the cat fur on the chair, Melvyn was rolling upside down in it just before he started modelling, and right after the P.A. had just vacuumed it! MOL

Check out Melvyn strutting his funky stuff on the BBHQ catwalk at:

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!

The Winner of Fudge's Birthday Giveaway

Drumroll purrlease...

via GIPHY

And the winner drawn out of the hat* is: 

Katie Isabella from Katie Isabella & Her Family 

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO! 

MANY CONCATULATIONS! 

If mew can email us your snail mail address at your earliest convenience, that would be epic.  

deardrbasil @ gmail . com 

Thank mew to everypawdy else who entered, and don't wurry if mew didn't win this time; there's be another giveaway happening right now as Melvyn's celebrating his 6th Birthday. And we've got another four throughout the next few months. 

*And just in case mew're wondering how we pick the winner, we type the full list of names from the blog post and Instagram post, then paste them into the random name picker at www.miniwebtool.com, and it automatically picks the winner.

That's us done for today, Amber will be back on Friday with the final book of this review season and her 250th book review! She's also hosting a giveaway to celebrate this huge milestone, and if mew missed any other posts, here are the links:

The B Team's Bodium Castle Selfie

Brain Training with Cats

Melvyn's 6th Birthday Rave and Giveaway

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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Welcome to The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Blooming Marvellous & Relaxing By The Pond, Relaxing On The Sofa with Pandora, Fudge and Melvyn AND Sewing with Sauce

 Epic Greetings Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

Well, the Jubilee has been and gone, and the flags and bunting have been taken down at BBHQ, although we do like the blog header and think we may leave it in place for the rest of the month.

It was lovely to see all the different events happening on the TV. Though it was sad that it rained buckets on Sunday, but the street pawty in Mewton-Clawson still went ahead, although there were lots of pop up gazebos everywhere, and by all indications everyone had a pawesome time.

First up in the news this week

Blooming Marvellous & Relaxing By The Pond

The weather has been a little hit and miss recently, typically British! MOL

The flowers in the garden are blooming beautifully, and we wanted to share this beauty with mew today.

This rose is really rather special; it is named after the P.A.'s cousin's daughter and was created after she lost her battle with cancer at just 18 years old a few years ago.

This beautiful rose grows by the door and although in one way is it rather sad, the P.A. loves to see it in full bloom, and she always tells the rose that it's looking blooming marvellous. 

And speaking of the P.A., here's an extremely rare glimpse of her relaxing by the pond, this doesn't happen often and we've noted the date and time on the calendar! MOL  As normally any time spent in the garden is usually with a trowel or other gardening implement in hand as there's always a job which needs doing.

And yes, it really is as tranquil as it looks, we are truly blessed to have such a lovely garden.

Next up in the news

Meanwhile indoors, this was happening

Relaxing On The Sofa with Pandora, Fudge and Melvyn.

And while the P.A. was relaxing by the pond, Pandora, Fudge and Melvyn were taking it easy in the sitting room watching a little bit of BBHQ Bird TV on Youtube. 

What a life!

Finally this week

Sewing with Sauce

Parsley Sauce was on paw as chief snoopervisor in the craft room this week when a couple more snuggle mats were being made, he loves testing them and checking the quality.

He takes his work furry seriously, just look how he casts his expert eye over the current project to make sure it's all ok, he's such a purrfectionist! MOL

Copper Meditation Pyramid Update

The P.A. purrchased a huge, round mandala cushion for her copper pyramid, and after she stuffed it the other day Smooch was furst on paw to test out the comfort factor, typical Smooch.

Then the P.A. had to quickly remove it off the floor, just in case he was suddenly offended by its presence and decided to widdle on it!

And hopefully, we'll be able to share the copper pyramid soon, as the P.A. is just making space for it in the crystal room.  She was going to put it outside for the summer, but she decided she didn't want it to get wet and then the copper to tarnish.

Sadly that's us done for today, Amber will be back on Friday with another fab book just for mew, and if mew missed Monday's Colouring with Cats post click here to catch up.

Epic purrs

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Blooming Marvellous with Luscious Lupins, Hanging Out With Fudge & Furiends, and Pandora's On The Way Up on The Pet Parade 352 with Dash Kitten, Barking from the Bayou and US!

Pawesome Wednesday Greetings Furriends

Welcome to the Pet Parade and our weekly news round up!

Our headline this week is, Blooming Marvellous with Luscious Lupins!  We were really surprised that the lupins are flowering so early, they're not usually blooming like this until June.

Not that we're complaining, we love our flowers! MOL

In other news this week... Hanging Out With Fudge & Furiends.

Fudge has been spending a lot of time in the window with the Woodland Furiends Crew from our VE75 window display for the local Bear Hunt, though we think secretly he's been comparing his tail floof to Scarlett Squirrels - on his left - because we keep finding Miss Squirrel on the desk. Maybe he's found a kindred spirit! MOL

And finally this week, Pandora's On The Way Up.

Now not many of mew will know that she doesn't really go upstairs, she has until recently preferred to stay downstairs [Snowie was the same], but the last couple of weeks she's begun to venture upstairs and seems to really rather like it. It's only taken 3 years!

Maybe she prefers the new colour scheme! MOL MOL

If mew missed anything offur the last week, here's the latest posts fur your purrusal:

Brain Training with Professor Basil #65

Feline Fiction on Friday #131 with Amber

Melvyn's Top Model Selfie on The Sunday Selfies

ManCat Monday with Fudge

Surprise Link

I'll be here tomorrow with some more Brain Training and the answer to last weeks sudoku puzzle so do stop by to join me if mew get chance, and let's keep your little grey cells in tip-top condition! 

Until then...

Purrs

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And don't furget while we're all on lockdown, we The B Team have got your six and can entertain mew fur weeks; there are oodles of colouring pages to download and not furgetting the colouring books too.  There's a page full of crafting projects to keep your mittens making stuff, and if books are your thing, check our Amber's Book Reviews fur your next pawesome read! 

There are some epically exciting adventure stories too, so read our thrilling tales episode by epic episode.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Capt'n Basil & His MotleyCrew 

Fast, Furry and Dangerous

The Clockwurk Labyrinth 

We've got some new Brain Training posts, just to keep your little grey cells in tip-top condition. And we’ll be adding extra jigsaw puzzles to the puzzle page.

If mew want to see more of what's been happening at BBHQ since the lockdown began, check out our Instagram feed where mew can see our diary and exclusive videos that we don't put here on the blog.

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