Showing posts with label garden updates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden updates. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Smooch Snoozing on The Shroom, Fudge Missing Out on a Second Breakfast, and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Two Top Pick Bandanas

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Supurr Greetings Furbulous Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

Last week we mentioned that we were hoping to crop the catnip plants, weather permitting. And on Sunday afternoon, the P.A. got the secateurs and off she went like Edward Scissorhands! MOL

This was two pots prior to cutting.

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The P.A. got six good-sized bundles in total, so not a bad haul, plus there's still some left as there were some spider webs that she didn't want to disturb. So there may be another crop in a couple of weeks if the spiders move on.

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® The Catnip Plants - Cropped

We didn't make the bundles too big, as they need the air to circulate, and after tying them together, they were carefully conveyed under the carport.

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® The Catnip Plants - Drying

And this is where they will hang for the next few weeks until they've gone nice and crispy. So stay tuned for another update soon.

We will say this, this crop seems rather potent, so we can't wait to try it! MOL

And if mew missed the full BBHQ catnip guide, click here to find out more.

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

First up in the news

Smooch Snoozing on The Shroom

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Smooch Snoozing on The Shroom

Smooch decided that some Shroom-time was needed the other day, and enjoyed several hours of catnapping on this sumptuous velvet delight! 

If mew feel like making one, here's the link to The Love Shroom.

And we're just working on another Crafting with Cats post for Halloween, so we'll be sharing that later in the month.

Next up in the news

Fudge Missing Out on a Second Breakfast

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil®Fudge Missing Out on a Second Breakfast

Apologies for the blurry photo, but the P.A. was actually laughing so hard at Fudge's utter outrage at missing out on a second breakfast while Amber, Melvyn, Smooch and Pandora were lapping it up! MOL

Too funny for sure!

 That'll teach him for not putting his alarm clock on.

Finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick


Last week mew voted for the Black Spider Webs plus the Pumpkins & Black Cats Bandanas. 

So here's BBHQ's top model doing what he does best! MOL

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Melvyn Modelling The Black Spider Webs Bandana

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Melvyn Modelling The  Pumpkins and Black Cats Bandana

The catwalk got supurr crowded this week, but Melvyn was an absolute star and navigated it all so well! 

Check out Melvyn's videos on your preferred social media channel below:

Which one is your favourite this week? 

Which one should he model next?


Here's the brand new bandana collection for October. 

Mew have four choices left, and if mew pick two of your favourites for next week, Melvyn will do his best to model them both! MOL

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® October 2023 Bandana Collection

The October Collection

Top row from left to right.

1. Black Spider Webs

2. Pumpkins and Black Cats

3. Red Pumpkin Collar & Tie

4. Halloween Heart

Bottom row from left to right

1. Purple Skelebobs

2. Orange Spider Webs

3. Ravens

4. Pumpkin Cats

Tell us your top pick for next week in the comments!

That's us done for today, Amber will be back on Friday with another fab book just for mew and if mew missed any other posts, here are the links:

 The B Team's Kenilworth Castle Selfie

Amber's Latest Book Review

Check out the all episodes of our Pirate Tails Rerun, as yesterday it was the Grand Finale:






If mew'd like us to rerun the Pirate Tails Q&A, where all the questions and weekly dilemmas from each episode get explained, let us know in the comments, and we'll filter them in between our regular posts.

We do hope mew have an epic day, and remember to always...

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Wednesday, 4 October 2023

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Smooch, Fudge and Pandora Waiting For The Catwalk Show, Parsley's On Pawtrol Part 2 and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Two Top Pick Bandanas **PLUS* This Weeks Top Videos

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Epic Greetings Furbulous Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

Good gravy guys, welcome to the Spooky Season, hopefully, the new blog header is up. We temporarily used last years, as we ran out of time last week, but all paws crossed it will be live by the time mew are reading this! MOL The Halloween header won't go up until later in the month.

We mentioned a few days ago, that we were going to try and get the catnip plants cropped, but it's done nothing but rain, and it's no good cropping it when it's wet, as it will just dry mouldy. If things dry up in the next few days, we'll be good to go.

Oh, and we were surprised in the garden the other day, as normally our lupins finish blooming in July, and even though they get dead-headed, they've never produced more flowers later in the season, until now!

Just look at this.

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® The Lone Lupin

One lone lupin, in the most delightful shade of blue literally just popped up. This is unheard of for BBHQ, so we're feeling epically blessed that this little plant pulled out all the stops to produce this magnificent bloom.

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

First up in the news

 Smooch, Fudge and Pandora Waiting For The Catwalk Show

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Smooch, Fudge and Pandora Waiting For The Catwalk Show

Smooch, Fudge and Pandora were lurking around the BBHQ catwalk on Monday, waiting for Melvyn to get his strut on and model the new bandanas from the October Collection.

Next up in the news

Parsley's On Pawtrol Part 2

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Parsley is still on Pawtrol, as he's really enjoying the extra outside time, though this week he said he wasn't facing the camera, as he was waiting for the squirrel, who was in the tree stealing the hazelnuts, and yes the little blighter comes and takes everything.

If mew want to see the squirrel, check out a video of him/her in the deodar tree a couple of weeks ago making a right noise, here on YouTube:

Cheeky Squirrel

We don't know who he/she was yelling at, but somepawdy definitely had a boggle going off! MOL

Finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Picks

This week's top picks are the Pumpkin Cats and the Red Pumpkin Tie bandanas.

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Melvyn Modelling The Pumpkin Cats Bandana

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Melvyn Modelling The Red Pumpkin Collar and Tie

Doesn't he look spook'a'licious!

Each video has different mewsic, and mew'll see that quite a few of The B Team were lurking around the catwalk this week!   MOL

Check out Melvyn's videos on:




Which one is your favourite this week?

Which one should he model next?


Here's the brand new bandana collection for October. 

Mew have six choices left, and if mew pick two of your favourites for next week, Melvyn will do his best to model them both! MOL

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® October 2023 Bandana Collection

The October Collection

Top row from left to right.

1. Black Spider Webs

2. Pumpkins and Black Cats

3. Red Pumpkin Collar & Tie

4. Halloween Heart

Bottom row from left to right

1. Purple Skelebobs

2. Orange Spider Webs

3. Ravens

4. Pumpkin Cats

Tell us your top pick for next week in the comments!

EXTRA, EXTRA!


Check out this week's top videos:

Parsley's Slow-Mo into the Weekend ~ Instagram

The B Team ~ YouTube

Smooch Just Enjoying Life ~ TikTok

That's us done for today, Amber will be back on Friday with another fab book just for mew to start the new book review season, and if mew missed any other posts, here are the links:

 The B Team's Rollright Stone Circle Selfie



Check out the latest episodes of our Pirate Tails Rerun, as tomorrow we'll be back with Part 8:


We do hope mew have an epic day, and remember to always...

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Wednesday, 27 September 2023

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Smooch Milling About The Garden, Fudge Caught with His Paw in The Catnip Jar and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Top Pick Bandana **PLUS* This Weeks Top Videos

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 Furbulous Greetings Supurr Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

It's been another wet and windy week at BBHQ, and tomorrow we're on a weather alert for 60mph winds, which we're not looking forward to at all. In fact, we're hoping that it misses us completely.

We just have to show mew this, the P.A. planted a small Deodar pine tree, way back in about 2006/7. Anyhoo it was only about 4ft or 121 cm tall, and a bit of weedy thing. The P.A. has a habit of saving things that other people would discard, and this particular tree was headed for the bonfire at the nursery, and the owner gave it to her for free, along with a couple more that are now in the BBHQ garden.

The other day she went to visit her cousin next door, and seeing the tree from a different angle she noticed this!

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Deodar Tree Pine Cones

It is literally covered from top to bottom in pine cones, and yes these are the same type that are currently in the freezer, as that is how mew get them to germinate. Whether that's true or not, we'll let mew know as they are about ready to go in pots.

But she was really flabbergasted at the number of cones, the tree has never gone cone-crazy before at this level, and if mew tap the cones, a cloud of pollen bursts forth, not good if mew have allergies.

It's truly amazing, as it was such a weedy tree, and here it is looking utterly majestic, so much so that the P.A.'s brother asked if he could have some cones to grow some too! We're just deliberating on the cost per cone! MOL MOL (Well, we do need a new hummer!)

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

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First up in the news this week

Smooch Milling About The Garden


The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Smooch Milling About The Garden

Smooch was enjoying a brief spell of sunshine in the garden the other day, and this is one of his favourite places to hang out and do a spot of bird watching.

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Next up in the news

Fudge Caught with His Paw in The Catnip Jar


The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Fudge Caught with His Paw in The Catnip Jar

Fudge was helping the P.A. to pick out the October bandana collection, and in the cupboard is the catnip, so she opened the jar and Fudge got right to work on the mission at paw, sampling the catnip! MOL

Check out his video on Tiktok below.

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Finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick


Today Melvyn finally got to wear the meautiful Teal Stars bandana, and we think he looks epic!

He also wants to know if Precious approves of the colour?

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® Melvyn Modelling The Teal Stars Bandana.

He loved wearing this one, and modelled it in record time, in fact, we were supurr impressed that it took less than five minutes, which is a new record, so that shows mew how much he likes it! MOL

Check out Melvyn's videos on:




Which one is your favourite this week? 

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Which one should he model next?


Here's the brand new bandana collection for October. 

Now we know there are only four Wednesdays in October, but as it is one of our favourite months of the year, Halloween! We thought we'd share the brand new, never-seen-before spooky selection on the top row, and on the second row, bandanas Melvyn has modelled before. So mew have eight choices, and if mew pick two of your favourites for next week, Melvyn will do his best to model them both! MOL

The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ©BionicBasil® October 2023 Bandana Collection

The October Collection

Top row from left to right.

1. Black Spider Webs

2. Pumpkins and Black Cats

3. Red Pumpkin Collar & Tie

4. Halloween Heart

Bottom row from left to right

1. Purple Skelebobs

2. Orange Spider Webs

3. Ravens

4. Pumpkin Cats

Tell us your top pick for next week in the comments!


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We'll be back tomorrow with Part 5 of our epically epic Pirate Tails, and if mew've missed any of the excitement so far, see below for the catch-up links, and again on Friday, so do join us then, as mew know how much we love your company.

And if mew missed any other posts for the last week, here are the links:







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