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Welcome to another our second:- 8 Things About...  

8 Things About WHAT though?! we hear mew ask.  Well fabulous furriends it could be 8 things about anything, but today it's all about...

8 Things About Amber

1. Amber is our resident library cat, and yes she does have her furry own library and likes to spend her time cataloging her books, buying new ones and organizing her current selection.

And she loves getting email requests from authors and publishers to review new kitty books that are coming out.

2.  She has offur 2000+ books, though 500 or so are on her Kindle. Amber prefers a real book to reading on a kindle, but most of all she loves to listen to books via the Audible app on her iPhone.

3.  Amber is FIV+ and will be 16 years old in October, so it just goes to show that FIV+ cats can have a great, long life, so if mew're looking to adopt a kitty, don't effur be put off if they have FIV+.  When we furst discovered that she had it when she was 7 months old, the vet only gave her about a year and a half to live as her numbers were so high - not good - but the P.A. said ok and decided to treat her homeopathically, on her next vet visit her numbers were just above normal and since then she's been fine.

4.  Even though Amber often seems like the mildly mannered matriarch of our furmily [well some of the time when she's not being a crotchety cougar], she is quite partial to tank driving, blowing stuff up and generally having a good time!

5.  She is also a no-nonsense kinda gal, if she has something to say and its got right on her boggle...

... woe betide the poor sap that caused any boggly-ness to occur.  Above is the time she ran out of book credits and the P.A. got it point-blank without warning. So she's a rather feisty diva at times! MOL

6.   Amber used to love chasing flutterby's when she was younger and would spend hours in the garden trying to catch one, though she furry rarely did.

7.  Her early start in life was not so great, as the peeps that owned her before she arrived here in Mewton-Clawson were going to have her put to sleep at 6 & 1/2 months old as they wanted to buy a new leather sofa and they'd had their fussy out with kitten Amber.  Luckily the P.A.'s cousin found out and fetched her away immediately and then turned up on our doorstep and begged us to give her a home.  The rest is history and Amber has been here effur since, their abject stupidity and selfishness was definitely our gain.

8.  Amber has her furry own Book Club here on the blog, effury Wednesday from September to May.

And she has her own books page, sharing all the books she's reviewed since 2016, and there mew can find the link to each review just in case mew may have missed one. 

And that sadly brings us to the end of 8 Things About Amber... we do hope mew enjoyed getting to know her a bit more and we'll be back on Friday with The Pet Parade and there will be a new jigsaw on the puzzle page fur mew tomorrow just in case mew feel a need to while a few minutes away.

Thanks fur visiting today

Pawesome purrs

Basil & The B Team xox

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The Pet Parade Blog Hop No: 189 & Give-Away ~ Rascal & Rocco Co-Hosted by Basil & Love is Being Owned By A Husky & Barking from the Bayou

Supurr Friday greetings pawesome pals

Happy Friday, and TGIF!  What a week, but hey ho tomorrow is Caturday and all will be well in the wurld fur the next 48 hours! MOL 

Before we dive into our usual speel, we've noticed recently that a lot of blogs are becoming harder and harder to comment on and some won't even let us leave a comment ???  as we we're headed through our weekly list, several blogs wouldn't let us comment even though we're signed in; it said that we were trying to comment anonymousely.  So we have no clue what's going off there, so if mew haven't heard from us in a few weeks, that's means we are no longer able to comment on your blog - so sorry, we have no clue how to fix it.


The Time Travelling Bobble Hat is winging its way to the next blog as we type, there was a little hiccup, one of the blogs on the list received it but said they knew nothing about it, and had neffur heard of me and therefore didn't want it so they have furry kindly sent it on to the next recipient.  Thank mew fur forwarding it.

So just to clarify, all the blogs on the list have requested the bobble hat be sent to them, and if mew'd like to join the tour, leave us a comment either here or on the TTBH page [link above] and we'll add mew.   

We'd also like to reiterate:

It is NOT compulsory fur any kitty to wear the hat, as we know that some kitties would hate it and we'd neffur want anypurrdy to be stressed out or traumatized.  All we ask is mew give it a quick mention, stick it on a soft toy or something, post a pic and we'll add money to the Rescue Fund fur the kitties in need, it's not hard, it's not stressful and mew're helping a great little independent rescue here in Nottinghamshire by featuring it.


In other news, we have this happening

Give-Away

Mew may remember ages and ages ago that we mentioned about being in Sir Snowies 2017 charity calendar, well there was a mix up with the delivery.  But they eventually arrived in February and the P.A. put them somewhere to add to a give-away and then they got moved and then we furgot and this week we found them! MOL

So we thought we'd better do a give-away post haste as we're tramping on at light speed through this year! MOL 

Moet the Blind Cat and yours truly are on the cover of this fabulous arty farty calendar, and inside are some of our pawesome pals.

Just leave us a comment to get your paws on one of these pawesome calendars!

The give-away open wurld-wide and we'll draw a winner from the hat next week.

Mew can find Sir Snowy here:

Website

YouTube Chanel

Twitter

If mew missed anything this week, here's the latest links fur your purrusal!

Sunday Selfies ~ Supurr Snugly Selfies

Mandalas on Monday ~ Colouring with Cats #23

Wordy on Wednesday with Amber #35

We'll be back with our usual Selfie Selection on Sunday, so hope mew can join us then.

In the meantime we wish mew all a truly terrific weekend!

Happy Hopping

Sweetest purrs & nose bumps

Basil & Co xox

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The Pet Parade Blog Hop No:188 ~ Rascal & Rocco Co-Hosted by Basil & Love is Being Owned By A Husky & Barking from the Bayou

Welcome to another glorious Spring Pet Parade

This week mew've probably seen that Pandora failed her digger driver training, I couldn't believe it when she refused to get in and give it whirl, she said and I quote, 

"This equipment is not standard spy issue," Pandora said in her clipped accent. "I vas 'oping fur more of a stealth bomber or something!"

Really? Seriously? I know we're real good and have lots of uber cool military toys, but a stealth bomber, jeez I think she's been watching too many Bond movies on the QT ~ we're not MI5! MOL

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In other news, I'm feeling oodles better and mew can see hanging from my collar, the speshul pendant that came with my homeopathic treatment to help with my pancreatitis, the P.A. spoke with the furry nice lady at Crossgates Farm yesterday and talked through my results and it would appear that the before and aftur results are really positive, so hopefully I'll continue to improve and keep the pesky pancreatitis at bay. 

As mew can see I was in the shed helping, sorry snoopervising the P.A. while she was making some trees fur our new venture, Kit Knit CosPlay, where we are doing some really fun things.  Admittedly the new blog isn't live live yet as we're still wurking on props; mew can see the pawesome castle behind me that Merlins mum, Alice made and we've painted it and are just adding some finishing touches, Agent J is knitting the costumes we'll be featuring and we also have an Etsy Store with some really cute stuff, more products will be added in the coming weeks. 

The main event will be a monthly Cos Play set featuring [probably] Fudge as he's the most compliant fur dressing up right now.  Our furst set is Sir Fudge'a'lot of Cattalot and will feature Flambe the Dragon, obviously we can't give too many details away as that will spoil the surprise fur mew, but know it's going to be so much fun! MOL

We're hoping to go live in April, so we'll keep mew posted.

If mew missed anything this week, here's the latest links fur your purrusal!

Sunday Selfies ~ Meet the NEW Heathen Hoard

Mandalas on Monday ~ Colouring with Cats #22

Wordy on Wednesday with Amber #34

We'll be back with our usual Selfie Selection on Sunday, so hope mew can join us then.

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Happy Hopping

Sweetest purrs & nose bumps

Basil & Co xox

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The Pet Parade Blog Hop No:187 ~ Rascal & Rocco Co-Hosted by Basil & Love is Being Owned By A Husky & Barking from the Bayou

Supurr Salutations and Greetings Wunderpurr Furriends

As mew can see we've really got our green on today! MOL

Well whats been happening this week, I hear mew ask?

Mew've met the newbies and they're now enlisted in our Kitty Commando Training Academy.  They are on the intensive programme, so are learning weapons skills this week.  Howeffur Pandora is quite the little madam.  She said and I quote, "I vant to be a spy Basil, and mew may call me Pandora Von DaPlume!"

I looked at her, bemewsment readily apparent all offur my furry chops.  "And what makes mew think mew can be a spy?" I asked.

"Because I am Pandora Von DaPlume and I vould make a most excellent agent!" she said in her strange little foreign accent. "I speak many languages and 'ave many skillz that mew may not know about."

I raised an eyebrow and said. "Such as?"

Her glittering eyes narrowed and she smirked. "I did a lot of research on mew and it vould seem that mew vurked fur the F.I.B., aftur checking out your furry impressive credentials, I decided that I too vould be purrfect fur that life."

I must admit she does have great evasive skillz, as no matter how much I pressed her fur info, she was not forthcoming and changed the subject each time.

"OK Pandora," I said finally aftur dancing around an invisible mulberry bush in our verbal sparing session. "I'll tell mew what..."

She looked at me expectantly, a slight smile tugging at her mouth.

"Once mew've completed your Kitty Commando Training we'll talk about the spy stuff, ok?"

She gave me a curt nod and said, "I knew mew vould see things my vay eventually. and by the vay Fudge is a complete menace and I vould suggest that he is neffur left alone vith any kind of veapon, that is unless mew vant the bunker blown to bits!"

And with that she vanished.  "Furry impressive," I thought. "She'll make an excellent addition to the B Team."

At that moment there was an almighty boom, and a thick, black smoke cloud rose skywards.  Next came whooping and hollering and I launched offur the back fence towards the field, where to my utter dismay I found Fudge with a rocket launcher, with Smoochie & Parsley. They were all grinning and guffawing like complete loons as one of the round bales burnt to a charred crisp.  Before I could reach them Fudge fired again at another bale.  BOOM!  The huge bale exploded into a ferocious fireball.

"STOP! STOP!" I yelled as they rolled around on the grass laughing their socks off.

 Fudge swung around and stared at me, rocket launcher waving all offur the place.  I ducked several times and in that moment I knew he had less sandwiches in his picnic hamper than the P.A.

"Oh no!" was all I could mutter. 

"TIME OUT GUYS!" I shouted. "Rocket launcher class is done."

Fudge stared at me, his eyes had that slightly glazed look of pure ecstasy and then he spun around and pointed the weapon at another bale and BOOM!

Smoochie and Parsley were crying with laughter, but Parsley managed to say between gasps of air, "And mew thought that we were a liability, jeez Basil we've got nothing on that nutjob!!!" 

"Yeah!" agreed Smooch as he pulled out a bag of marshmallows and began to toast one on the nearest flaming bale. "Where the flip did mew recruit him from?" then added rather genially. "Marshmallow anyone?"

I snatched the stick from his paw and ate the hot sticky mess, I knew I shouldn't but I needed to think. 

"C.J. Catkin sent him," I finally said.

"Did mew and C.J. fall out or something?" Parsley asked.

I shook my head and tapped my comms unit.  "Snowie get C.J. on the phone purrlease, this is an emergency!"

Guys, this is only the beginning....

If mew missed anything this week, here's the latest links fur your purrusal!

Sunday Selfies ~ Meet The Newbies

Mandalas on Monday ~ Colouring with Cats #21

Wordy on Wednesday with Amber #33

We'll be back with our usual Selfie Selection on Sunday, so hope mew can join us then.

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The Pet Parade Blog Hop No: 186 ~ Rascal & Rocco Co-Hosted by Basil & Love is Being Owned By A Husky & Barking from the Bayou

We wish mew most excellent Friday greetings fabulous furriends 

And hope mew've all had an amazing week

Mew may remember last Friday's post, where I shared my 'NOT CLONE' 

Well, the P.A. finally got a response to her email regarding the 'not clone', and aftur several back and forths, Cuddles Clones are taking that one back and re-doing it, so paws crossed it will actually look more like me when it is returned.  So we'll be shipping it back tomorrow and hopefully get one in time to take to Blog Paws.

Anyhoo let's talk about something fun, like our new fursibs, Fudge & Pandora, aren't they just smashing, supurr, great? MOL

So here's the two new Heathens, Fudge has no sense of danger at all on any level - oh and mew can see some of the new patio and froggy pond, though its not quite finished.  Pandora is a little sweetheart and does an awful lot of talking, though she doesn't like nip - YEP MEW HEARD ME - which we all find furry bizarre and she doesn't like treats, which we find even more bizarre, and we think she has no purr, Smooch can't purr either, neffur has.  So the Fudginator and Miss Pandora obviously came from our favourite rescue the Burton Joyce Cat Rescue in Nottingham, where they'd been residents fur quite some time.

Fudge was being fed by a lovely lady, who so desperately wanted to keep him but her four elderly cats were having none of it, so she reluctantly took him to Aunty Elaines, where he had furry little interest from peeps looking to adopt.  We think it was because in his write-up/bio it said he was a road accident waiting to happen, Aunty Elaine was delighted when the P.A. asked about him as she knew he'd be better in Sweepy Ville where it's not so busy.  He's approximately 15 months old now and the youngest memfur of The Heathen Hoard

Pandora was found pregnant and abandoned in a field this time last year.  Luckily she was taken to the rescue where she delivered a healthy litter of kittens.  Her kittens were all adopted as soon as they were ready but sadly no-one wanted her.  She's about 2 years old now and is such a cute little cat, although we think she's almost doubled in size since we got her, which is probably due to finally having a home and being settled fur the furst time in her life.

They are currently enrolled in our Kitty Commando Training Academy as obviously we can't just expect them to know effurything about tanks, guns, choppers, tech, the bunker and our secret double-life of saving the wurld at least once a year. So we'll be giving mew updates on their training as obviously we've got a new adventure starting soon and they need to be ready! MOL

If mew missed anything this week, here's the latest links fur your purrusal!

Sunday Selfies ~ Spring Has Almost Sprung

Mandalas on Monday ~ Colouring with Cats #20

The Smooch Report - The Widdle Diaries Part II

Wordy on Wednesday with Amber #32

We'll be back with our usual Selfie Selection on Sunday, so hope mew can join us then.

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Sweetest purrs & nose bumps

Basil & Co xox

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