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Wednesday 18 January 2023

Welcome to The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Another Gorgeous Catmas Card, Fudge's Up A Tree and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Top Pick Bandana - Mr Sunshine

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Epic Wednesday Greetings Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

How's your week going? 

We had a small fluttering of snow on Monday, but it fluffed off after a few minutes which we were really happy about. Although it has got a little colder.

We've been doing a little more snipping and pruning the garden and the P.A. has ordered some new perennial flowers from Thompson and Morgan*. We find they do some great stuff at a really good price, plus they do collections of plug plants; for instance a 72 cottage garden perennial selection is just £14.99 while on offer. 

Which is fantastic value, as mew can pay approximately £7.99 for one foxglove at our local garden centres. We know having the plugs involves potting on and bringing the plants on, but if mew do the sums, 72 x £7.99 = £575.28 for garden ready plants, that's a lot of wonga. And we've found that quite a lot of garden ready blooms we've purchased over the years from garden centres don't survive, in fact some don't make the season, and we're experienced gardeners.

So for us it makes sense to buy the plug plants and nurture them until they're ready to go into the borders or pots. The plants come by post, and we know this puts some peeps off buying this way, but in the all the years of buying from them we've only had to contact them twice, once as the plants were accidently delivered to the neighbour next-door who was away and the plants died, as the courier left them on the front door step. And the next time, we ordered through a third party at QVC as it was cheaper than their website and the delivery took too long, but they replaced them no problem.

So if mew're thinking of adding new blooms, and mew're in the UK, take a look at their extensive catalogue. Plus they are now doing house plants, although we haven't purchased any of those yet.

*This is not an affiliate link, we are just sharing where we buy our stuff for our garden.

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First up in the news 

Another Gorgeous Catmas Card

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Catmas Cards 2022 Chauncer and Immy

This one is from @chaucerandimmy on Instagram.

Thank mew so furry much, we love it!

To see all of the BBHQ 2022 Catmas cards, click here to see last week's late arrivals and click here to head to the video post.

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Next up in the news

Fudge's Up A Tree


The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Fudge's Up A Tree

Fudge was up his favourite tree on Sunday, mew can check out his TikTok video with a brief cameo from Pandora and Parsley! 

This is the tree he uses to get on the roof, and yes he was on the roof again. We aren't sure why he enjoys it, but he does and always peeks over the top and spies on the main street below! MOL

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And finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick


This weeks winner is the summery, Mr Sunshine bandana.

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Melvyn's Modelling The Next Top Bandana Pick Mr Sunshine

Mew've got two more choices, Steampunk Cats or Pink Flamingos.

Melvyn's gait on this weeks BBHQ catwalk was a new one, he was going for a rather sedate but purposeful strut.

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Which one should he model next?


January's choices are below.


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The options from the top left in a clockwise direction: 

1. Steampunk Cats

2. Mr Sunshine

3. Llama Drama

4. Pink Flamingos

 Let us know in the comments, and Melvyn will model it on next week's post.



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EXTRA, EXTRA!


Check out this week's top videos:

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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 post click here to catch up on some more epic Brain Training! 

In the meantime

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Wednesday 11 January 2023

Welcome to The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ More Gorgeous Catmas Cards, The Garden Winter Clear Up Begins, And Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

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Epic Wednesday Greetings Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

How's your week going? 

It's been very rainy here the last few days and has felt colder because of the endless dampness. The P.A. let the fire in the woodburner go out last week, but luckily yesterday she lit the stove again, so we're back to supurr toasty and totally tropical in the sitting room! MOL

We hope mew all are warm and toasty and not experiencing any severe weather phenomena, as we've seen several things from around the globe in recent days, from flooding, snow storms, an earthquake and high winds. So we'll keep our paws crossed that none of mew are affected. 

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First up in the news 

More Gorgeous Catmas Cards

Five more gorgeous cards arrived at BBHQ this week, and here they are:

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Thank mew again so furry much, we love each and every one.

To see all of the BBHQ 2022 Catmas cards, click here to head to last week's post and the video.

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Next up in the news

The Garden Winter Clear Up Begins


The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Smooch Checking The Big Garden Clear Up

Smooch was on paw to check the progress of the garden winter clear up. Dad got the chainsaw out and did a spot of tree trimming, as some were getting far too tall and causing the lawn to be in too much shadow. Hence the lawn is now not a lawn but just covered in moss.

We are undecided about what to do as every company we have out to look at the lawn comes up with a totally ridiculous price, so we may just rip it up and just lay new turf again as that will be the cheapest option.

The P.A. is a little fluffed off as when the turf was originally put down in 2017, the chap who used to come and do the mowing brought a lawn disease and the new turf never really recovered. Little did we know at that time that an issue like this could occur. Basically, the lawn chaps mower had cut grass which had a contagious fungus on it, and then that fungus was transmitted to our lawn, and here we are today.

But whatever, we may leave it mossy for this year and do nothing; we haven't decided yet.

Anyhoo, dad will get the chainsaw out again this weekend and cut up any of the trees that will be ok for logs, and the rest will go on the bonfire down the field.

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And finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick


The Llama Drama and Steampunk Cats bandanas tied last week, so we flipped a coin, and the Llama Drama won!

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Melvyn's Modelling The Next Top Bandana Pick Llama Drama

Check out his video on TikTok, Smooch got on the catwalk first and Melvyn lost the plot and forgot what he was doing! MOL

Which one should he model next?


January's choices are below.

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The options from the top left in a clockwise direction:

1. Steampunk Cats

2. Mr Sunshine

3. Llama Drama

4. Pink Flamingos


 Let us know in the comments, and Melvyn will model it on next week's post

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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 post click here to catch up on a Little bit of Brain Training, and see Melvyn's Going Green post on the Sunday Selfies here.

In the meantime

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Wednesday 4 January 2023

Welcome to The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ More Gorgeous Catmas Cards, Floofy Fudge & The Chakra Crystals, And Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

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Epic Wednesday Greetings Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

How's your week going? 

Mew know the week between Catmas and Mew Year is always a little flat, and this year the energy was decidedly in the negatives! MOL

We haven't done much at all, if we're honest we haven't felt like doing anything, so we haven't.

But the good news is, we passed the shortest day and the nights are now drawing out again.

Let's just hope that we don't get any really bad weather.

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First up in the news 

More Gorgeous Catmas Cards

There were more than we thought which arrived last week, and we know that one is still in transit from Dash Kitten in New Zealand.
 
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And if mew missed the video on last week's post, here it is again.

Thank mew so much again, we love each and every one and they will go into a special box when the festive season is over on January 6th, and all the decorations come down.

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Next up in the news

 Floofy Fudge & The Chakra Crystals


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Fudge decided he wanted to try the P.A.'s Chakra Crystal set the other evening. His method of picking out his favourites was funny, check him out on Instagram.

Did mew see that epic yawn?

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And finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick


The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Melvyn's Modelling The Next Top Bandana Pick New Years Pawty

Check out his videos on:




He added a special effect filter to his Instagram video; what do mew think?

Which one should he model next?


As mew know, Melvyn has rather a lot of bandanas. See his Instagram Mew Years dilemma here! MOL

Therefore we thought we'd pick four or five each month from his existing collection, and mew can choose which one is the pick of the week, as he's trying to be a little bit more sustainable with his fashion purrchases. 

January's choices are below.

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The options from the top left in a clockwise direction:

1. Steampunk Cats

2. Mr Sunshine

3. Llama Drama

4. Pink Flamingos


 Let us know in the comments, and Melvyn will model it on next week's post

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That's us done for today. Amber will be back on Friday with another fab book just for mew and apologies for not posting on Monday, we just don't know what happened! MOL But mew can see our Mew Years Furmily Pawtrait here if mew missed it.

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