**HALLOWEEN SPECIAL** Bumper Brain Training with Cats #89 with your Epic host ~ Professor Basil P.H.D.

Splendiferous greetings my pawesome furiends

Welcome to another furbulous Monday on the blog. Today, all things are epically spook'a'licious.

And here's me all geared up for The Annual Mewton-Clawson Zombie Hunt, aka A.M.C.Z.H. - HOOOAH!! MOL

 I may look all cute and fluffy most of the time, but really I am as dangerous as fluff. (Well, mew know that from our adventures.)

We'll let mew know how many undead we bag in next week's news. Smooch reckons he's going to beat my all time record of forty-two, but I told him. "Dude, mew've got no chance!" MOL

And great news today

Not only do we have a wordsearch plus a sudoku puzzle, a regular puzzle, but a colouring page, too. 

OH MY COD, I'm spoiling mew! 

It's time to get those little grey cells working...

Here's the Answer Key to last time's sudoku puzzle #55

Are mew ready for this week's puzzle?

Just click right-click to save and/or print the puzzle. 

The answer key will be on next time's post.

Here's this week's wordsearch, one with lots of Halloween stuff! MOL

Just right-click to save the wordsearch to your 'puter or print it off 

Here's a furbulously spooky mandala complete with ghosts, pumpkins, bats, and not forgetting the candy, and ours is sugar-free, of course! MOL

Right-click to download and/or print the mandala.

This is our finished version...

Coloured on the iPad and then transformed in Prisma, this time, we chose the effect - Surf

This mandala was so much fun to draw and colour; it's one of our all-time favourites.

Finally, here's this week's jigsaw puzzle, featuring me obviously in a supurr arty pic. 

I think I'm looking pretty EPIC! MOL MOL

It took me 9 mins 19 secs...  How did mew do?

I hope mew enjoy today's spooky puzzles. 

The B Team will be back tomorrow with a brand new Crafting with Cats and again on Wednesday with the Midweek News Round-up. 

If mew missed yesterday's epic Halloween Selfie, click here and here to catch up on Amber's latest book review.

In the meantime...

Keep calm, and go on a zombie hunt... and don't forget to...

Professor Basil aka The BBHQ Zombie Hunter

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Colouring with Cats #100 ~ Getting Your OM’s on with Mandalas on Mondays ~ Woo Hoo It's Our 100th Mandala

Supurr Monday greetings beautiful furiends

Welcome to our 100th Colouring Post! 

OMC, we can hardly believe we've shared 100 mandala's with mew, that makes us Zen Experts fur sure! MOL

We hope mew really enjoy colouring today's mandala as much as we did!

Oh, mew remember a couple of weeks ago when we showed mew the Space Cadet's Snuggle Mat we'd made fur a lovely little kitty who'd been recently adopted?

We're delighted to introduce mew to him today...

Meet young Stanley; though he is rather nervous and quite shy, but he sent us this photo with a supurr thank mew card.

He really loves his snuggle mat and the toys, way to go Stanley, WOOOO HOOOOO little dude!  

We do hope mew've all have a totally epic weekend, and that mew're ready fur the week ahead as the world slowly returns to a more normal state of being, so let's jump right in and start as always with our little breathing exercise, which we're sure mew all have down paw by now...  but if mew've furgotten, stop what mew're doing fur a moment and take deep fulfilling breaths; counting to five on the inhale and five on the exhale:

Breathe in

Breathe out

Breathe in

Breathe out

Breathe in

Breathe out

Smooch is here again to offur mew assistance in getting your OM's on and Zen Harmonies happening, so just press play, close your eyes and follow his instructions.



Don't mew feel better already?  I know we do!

All the mandala's featured are created & designed by us ~ The B Team.

Here's this weeks mandala, and we're sharing oodles of love and harmony with today's drawing.

Click here to **download** and/or print the mandala.

And here's our finished version...

Coloured on the iPad and then transformed in Prisma, this time we chose the effect - Maple. We love all the pink and orange tones, they wurk furry well together and symbolize creativity and love.

If mew'd like to share your peeps pawesome artwurk feel free to upload it to our Facebook page at:

Bionic Basil & The B Team @Facebook

As we'd really like to see your finished mandalas.

Don't furget mew can download** our free Colouring with Cats here:- Books One, Two, Three, and now Four has just been released this month.

Colouring with Cats Book One

Colouring With Cats Book Two ~ Easy Mandala's 

Colouring With Cats Book III

Colouring With Cats Book IV

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It's time fur us to say bye fur now or BFN, and we hope to see mew on Wednesday when we're here with The Pet Parade Blog Hop, and announcing the two lucky winners of our birthday giveaway from last week, and if mew haven't entered mew still have until 5pm today UK time!

Until then

Keep Calm and Colour OM!

Supurr chilled purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team xox

Free Lockdown Activities

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 Motley Crew 

Fast, Furry and Dangerous

The Clockwurk Labyrinth 

We've also added some new BrainTraining 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 daily diary and exclusive videos that we don't put here on the blog.

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Halloween Special & Colouring with Cats #4 ~ Getting Your OM on [fur about 5 minutes]

Spooky greetings freaktastic furriends



Before we begin, we so loved stopping by your blogs yesterday and seeing all the amazing selfies, mew are all so pawesome!! Muwahahahahahahaaaaa!!! MOL MOL

As mew know we started our colouring with cats a few weeks ago, so don't think we're going to deprive mew of getting your zen harmonies happening and your OM on today, howeffur as it's Halloween we feel it most necessary to add a little mystery and a bit of a supurr-natural flavour to the proceedings...

So keep reading and enjoy the fun...

Here's this weeks colouring page, obviously we didn't make this one, the P.A. ran out of time this week and so we found this free one instead from www.hative.com - Just right click the image to save and print it...

Here's the P.A.'s finished effort:

Coloured using Sharpies fine nib markers.

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If mew feel like sharing your peeps pawesome artwurk feel free to post it on our Facebook page:

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as we'd really love to see your interpretation of today's picture.

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is here and we're ready fur a chilling little tail, or we should say tale... muwhahahahahaha

A Spooky Tail on All Hallows' Eve 

It had been a frosty day, the air rather piquant with a fresh, zingy taste.  We'd just finished decorating the bunker in the most spooktacular fashion and even if I do say so myself, it looked as scary as the scariest place mew could effur imagine.  White, glistening cobwebs hung in thick swaths covering the walls and ceilings, bats dangled on invisible bungy cords, pumpkins galore were effurywhere. Spooky specters glided along the bunker corridors wailing chillingly and animated weird-wolves popped up and howled when mew least expected it.  The smoke-machine was on offurdrive and a white filmy mist swirled around rather hypnotically just above floor level.  Shocking shrieks and muffled bumps sounded through the comms systems and to be honest I nearly jumped out of my fur several times. 

The Control Room had been transformed into the Halloween Hub and all the pawty games were in place as an eerie bell tolled and a gruff voice announced:

'Get the pawty started!'

Parsley aka The Saucerer was bobbing fur nip-laced apples.  Posie aka The Mummy was lurching around unable to see due to a bandage malfunction.  Humphrey was wearing his invisibility suit and kept creeping on effurypurrdy, whispering in their ear in some strange foreign accent, "I'm vatching mew... muwahahahahahahaaaaa!"

Smoochie, Amber and I all had the same idea and were dressed as witches and warlocks. [note to self, I need a new costume fur next year]

Anyhoo, there we all were having a wail of a time, screaming like gurls while a sinister sound-track played in the background, plus we were enjoying some rather strange brew that Smoochie had concocted in the laboratory.  He'd even made it in a cauldron fur added effect and to be honest I could have swore at one point I saw a tentacle raise up out of the bubbling neon-green liquid, then sink below the mist-swirling surface, but he said and I quote;

"Trust me! I know what I'm doing, here drink this!" 

I did have several reservations hurtling through my mind, such as;

really?
mew sure about that? 
it looks a funny colour! 
and why is it smoking like that? 
did I just see a tentacle in my drink?

But I thought what the heck and aftur several shots I found it rather entertaining when an eyeball appeared in my glass, it was like a surprise bonus and we all laughed and laughed and laughed!

As the night progressed things did start to get a little outlandish, Snowie aka The White Phantom got tangled up in the suspension wires she'd rigged to her costume and hung upside down like she was trapped in some giant spider web and we just laughed and laughed and laughed!

Mid all this hysterical laughter the lights suddenly went out and we were plunged into darkness.  The inky pitch-black of a total power failure.

"Don't wurry," I laughed. "The back-up generator will kick-in in a couple of seconds!"

Time ticked by and we were all still sat in the dark.

"Basil?" Smooch said bumping into me then forcing another drink into my paw. "Why's the genny not wurking?"

"Ssssssshhhhh," Parsley hissed as we all giggled, too much nip and who-knows-what will do that to mew. "Do mew hear that?" he asked.

"Hear what?" Posie said as she tripped offur her bandages and landed with an ungainly thwump on the floor.

Scratch... scratch... scratch...

We all paused, listened and then laughed and laughed and laughed.

Scratch... scratch... scratch... 

"It's getting closer," Parsley said, sounding much sober than he had five seconds ago.

Scratch... scratch... scratch... 

We all paused, listened again and then laughed and laughed and laughed.

"DUDES!" Parsley said tersely, obviously he hadn't had as much cauldron nip as the rest of us. "There's something coming down the corridor!"

Scrape... scratch... scratch... scrape... scrape...

We all paused, listened again and then laughed and laughed and laughed.

I suddenly heard a sickeningly soft hiss and it made my fur bristle in all kinds of disturbing ways, or maybe that was the cauldron nip, at this point I couldn't be sure fur sure.

"Guys, was that one of mew?" I asked as my highly honed senses suddenly burst into life and began to eek out in the darkness. "Do mew smell that? It's rank, fetid and has a rather old dead odour..."

Amber took huge offence to this and said rather snappishly. "No I haven't been eating eggs again!"

"No not mew," I said.

Scrape... scratch... scratch... scrape... scrape...

"Basil," Humphrey whispered in my ear, his cold breath making my ear-fur tremble and I nearly screamed.  Only just managing to swallow down my shriek Humphrey continued. "I'll go check, I've got my night vision goggles on plus I'm invisible, stay here dude."

"Great idea," I said pushing him towards to door.

I could feel my fur-sibs draw closer towards me and Smooch whispered. "Do mew guys have any weapons?"

I heard the distinct clicks of several safety's being slid off in the dark and heard the collective reply of. "Of course we've got weapons!"

There was a light tap on my shoulder and Humphrey hissed. "Basil, dude... I don't know how to say this..."

"Say what?" I asked with much trepidation, feeling the sudden pump of adrenaline flood through my body like an icy wave crashing on the beach.

"There's a zombie cat in the bunker and it's lurching this way!" Humphrey gulped.  



Amber screamed, then we all screamed and screamed and screamed!

**And Cut**

We do hope mew've enjoyed our little Halloween story!

Stay safe furriends, stay indoors and don't make our mistake, LOCK THE DOOR!

Bestest SCREAMING Meows and WAILING Purrs

Basil and Co xox

Muwhahahahahaaaaaaaaahahahahaaaaaaaaa

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