Showing posts with label Valentines Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentines Day. Show all posts

Wednesday 12 February 2020

Melvyn Celebrates One Year On The Blog, The Winner of Pandora's Give Away and Untimely Power Cuts, on The Valentine's Parade 339 with Dash Kitten, Barking from the Bayou and US!

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Happy Wednesday fab pals

Welcome to our weekly news round-up, and are mew feeling all the love this week?  

Furst up it is exactly one year since Melvyn made his debut appearance on the blog!

Melvyn Celebrates One Year On The Blog

This was his furry furst pic on the blog, what a little cutie.

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Happy One Year Anniversary little dude!

This was the day he arrived at BBHQ and was sitting in the catservatory when Smooch and Fudge appeared at the door.

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We've absolutely loved getting to know Melvyn offur the last year, and he has really brought a lot of fun to The B Team dynamic.  He is supurr playful, he talks an awful lot, yes he's always got something to say and he gets on with all The B Team. 

Though he occasionally has a little issue with Parsley, which includes an ambush and a chase around the house. We think it's because Parsley is the biggest/heaviest cat at BBHQ and Melvyn is still trying to figure his place in the pecking order.  The good thing is that Parsley is a lover, not a scrapper so Melvyn neffur gets anywhere, as Parsley just removes himself from the situation and Melvyn goes and finds his ball to play with! MOL

The excitement of living in a multi-cat household, and I bet no end of our pals could tell us some really exciting stories about their multi-cat homes too! MOL

Fudge and Melvyn regularly have zoomie hour and race around the house; going up the staircase is like they're in one of those speedways aka wall of death silodromes; where the race drivers would speed horizontally around the walls of a purrpose built drum - these two have already left their paw-marks on the new paintwurk! OOPS!

But seriously, Melvyn is so lovely and he really, really loves his dad and gets snuggled on his chest effury evening for cuddles.

We feel blessed to have been able to give him his fureffur home and so lucky he chose us to be his furmily.

We love mew little dude.

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Next up...

The Winner of Pandora's Give Away

Now we know that mew're all desperate to know who the winner of Pandora's Give-Away is.

So on Monday evening, we put all the names into a hat and out came.... drum roll purrlease...

Timmy Tomcat of Tomcat Commentary by Tim

WOO HOO many Con'cat'ulations dude, we'll send mew an email in due course and we hope Einstein will model it.

Thank mew to effuryone else who entered, sorry mew couldn't all be winners, but neffur fear we'll be having another supurr cool give-away before mew know it, so stay tuned and visit often.

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And finally today...

Untimely Power Cuts

We were going to post our latest Valentine's Gus and Bella Box review yesterday but we had nothing but power cuts all-day on Monday, so that post has been rescheduled for tomorrow instead.  We could have put the generator on but the P.A. said she was still full of cold and she wasn't going outside, yes we need an automatic change-over switch - it's on the to-do list! MOL

  Apparently, the energy supplier said they were rebooting the system trying to get other peoples power on aftur Storm Ciara swept through the county on the weekend.  So the power was going on and off fur a few minutes at random times throughout the entire day.

And since the storm, it has been really cold and we actually had the furst snow of the season on Monday too, not a lot; just a light, slushy covering. But we're glad that mess has gone now, roll on spring, that's what we're thinking! MOL

If mew've missed any of the posts offur the last week, here's the catch-up links:






We'll be back tomorrow with our review, Amber will be here on Friday with another book she can't wait to share with mew all, and on Caturday will be sharing a special edition of Crafting with Cats, and we know mew won't want to miss that! 

Until then...

Best purrs

Wing Commander Basil The B Team

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Saturday 8 February 2020

Feline Fiction on Fridays #119 at Amber's Library featuring a Valentine's Throwback Review to 2018 **Here Comes Valentine Cat** by Deborah Underwood

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With me, Amber ~ The Best Library Cat in the entire mewton-Clawson Parish

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Supurr salutations pawesome furiends

*waves paw*

Furstly, sorry I'm late, the P.A. came down with a nasty cold on Thursday. But better late than neffur is what I say! MOL

Anyhoo, as mew know, it's the countdown to Valentine's Day this week, so I thought I'd share one of my favourite posts from 2018. When I was completely surprised by the arrival of several anonymouse Valentine's cards, read on to see what happened...
OH MY GOSH! OH MY CAT!  I'm so excited I can barely contain myself... mew'll neffur believe it, but I've neffur had a Valentine's card, like effur and then today I got five!  Can mew believe it?

I got five cards from mystery admirers, I'm speechless!

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Feline Fiction on Fridays #119 at Amber's Library ©BionicBasil® Valentine's Throwback 2018

Feline Fiction on Fridays #119 at Amber's Library ©BionicBasil® Valentine's Throwback 2018

Feline Fiction on Fridays #119 at Amber's Library ©BionicBasil® Valentine's Throwback 2018

I could dream about that fur hours... Cloud cuckoo here I come!

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Meanwhile, Parsley and Basil were having a private conversation under the stairs.

"Dude, has she got the cards?" Basil asked in a hushed tone.

"Yes, and she thinks they're from her admirers at the pole-dancing club!" Parsley smiled.

"Brilliant dude, and is she happy?" Basil asked.

"Dude, she's on cloud cuckoo and began saying something about getting books instead of cards next year!" Parsley chuckled.

"That'd be right!" Basil replied grinning. "Let's see if she's this happy when we ambush her with an intervention next week!"

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And just to share the love a bit more, here's Smooch and Fudge...

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Now I think it's time to share this weeks book.
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This week I'm sharing...

image Amber's purrsonal copy

Here Comes Valentine Cat

by

Deborah Underwood


Here's a little snippet of the book blurb:

Cat does NOT like Valentine's Day. It's much too mushy, and no way is he making a valentine for anyone- especially not his new neighbour, Dog. 

Dog refuses to respect the fence: he keeps tossing over old bones and a hitting Cat in the head! But just as Cat's about to send Dog an angry "valentine" telling him exactly what he can do with his bones, Dog throws a ball over the fence. 

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Feline Fiction on Fridays #119 at Amber's Library ©BionicBasil® Valentine's Throwback 2018

Now I don't think I've reviewed anything fur this age group before, normally as mew know I'm all fur a cozy mystery or two and a gritty thriller, or a bit of sci-fi or even some far-out fantasy adventure, but only if its got cats in.  But while I was purrusing Amazon looking fur something to share with mew today, I saw the cover and I was smitten immediately by it.

Even though book this is fur much younger readers, ages 3 - 5 to be exact, I thought it was the cutest thing effur!

Now call me an old grump; which until I received all my beautiful valentines cards this morning I was... so I could relate to Cat who's not a fan of the loved up day on February the 14th!

The books starts with the narrator asking Cat if he has any valentines day plans and Cat replies with a picture of a heart with a line through it. The 'script' is really sweet with a lovely message and Cat's pictures just bring it all alive.

The illustrations are so cute, in fact effurything about this book is adorably cute, so much so that I'm actually having a complete cuteness meltdown MOL, but seriously if mew have children or grandchildren, nieces, nephews or godchildren this little book is so much fun and really brings a smile.

If that's not wurth getting it fur, then I can't think of anything else to say.

Except that, there are other books in series, which no doubt I'll share with mew at some point throughout the year.

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Hardcover: 88 pages
Age Range: 3 - 5 years
Publisher: Dial Books (13 Jan. 2016)

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I do hope mew enjoy this book if mew decide to give it a try... 

...and if mew've read it already, let me know what mew thought.

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Sadly it's time fur me to say BFN or bye-fur-now as mew know the drill, so many books, so little time and don't furget that I'll be back next week with another specially paw-picked book just fur mew. And don't furget to stop by my book review page to catch up on any that mew may have missed.

Happy reading or listening

Purrs

Amber xox







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Wednesday 13 February 2019

Happy Valentines, Melvyn's Kissing Booth & There's A Blogpost Thief Stealing Our Content on The Pet Parade 287 with Dash Kitten, Us & Barking from The Bayou

Wednesday Greetings Fabulous Furriends

Welcome to The Pet Parade and our weekly news round-up!

This week, we're all loved up!


So spread the joy and offer kitty kisses to anypurrdy that might need them, though Melvyn took this advice quite literally and set up this at BBHQ early this morning!!


So purrlease form an orderly queue as it's getting purretty busy! MOL 

There's A Blogpost Thief Stealing Our Content 

Just before we pootle off, I feel it most necessary to warn all our pawesome blogging pals to check out a website called

www . petzilia . com

No, that's not a live link, purrlease copy and paste into a browser window.

On Sunday evening when we were doing our monthly search on google to see what's been happening we came across the aforementioned site with one of our blogposts listed underneath it, so we went to check it out and found these peeps have been stealing our content, yep mew heard us, these peeps are serial blogpost thieves.

So, being The B Team, we jumped into action...

We emailed petzilia immediately with a take-down notice on Sunday and they sent us a generic reply with a multitude of excuses to try and justify their blatant theft.  But we replied again with you now have 24 hours to take down our content on Monday morning, to which they replied they would.

Yet here we are on Tuesday evening and we've just seen that they've even stolen yesterdays blogpost too, and not taken any of the previously stolen posts down, so we're up to 60 posts in total now! 

LIKE WHAT THE FLUFF DUDES AND WHAT PART OF TAKE DOWN OUR CONTENT IMMEDIATELY DON'T MEW UNDERSTAND????!!!

Mew, our pawesome readers know what's coming next don't mew?

HOOAH!!!

But obviously that bit is covert right now! MOL

So fabulous furriends, our advice is; go and check that site out, and make sure mew have not been violated as there's lot's of stuff there, and if they've illegally taken and used 60 complete posts from here, they could have any number of your posts too! 

We'll keep mew updated as this story unfolds...

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





And if mew still need some more entertainment, get our free mandala colouring books below:

Pandora will be here in the morning with her top 10 Valentine's Gift Guide just fur mew, and Amber will be here on Friday with a cute book she can't wait to share with mew all, so do stop by if mew get chance as mew know we love your company! 

Bestest purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team xx

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