Welcome to The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ What Did We Think To The Catnap Cave Cat Bed? The Monthly Meeting, and Chaos on The Catwalk - Melvyn Throws A Wobbly and Smooch gets Rolled!

Epic Wednesday Greetings Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

How's your week going? 

Great news, the internet connection is now working normally, and we discovered the problem. Apparently, some lovely people decided to steal the copper wire from the local exchange.

Seriously mew couldn't write it!

This is not the first this has happened locally. A village about 3 miles away had the same thing happen twice in recent months, and so we think it will probably happen again now it's fixed.

What the fluff is wrong with people? We know copper prices are good right now but stealing the copper from telephone exchanges and plunging entire rural communities into a blackout scenario is just beyond selfish; we have no words.

In fact, we were watching a YouTube video short only a couple of weeks ago, and the same thing is happening in Australia. The thief blew up a small substation while trying to nick off with the copper - what a total flumpit. 

First up in the news 

What Did We Think To The Catnap Cave Cat Bed?

A couple of weeks ago, the pawesome peeps from: www.catnapcave.com contacted us to see if we'd like to review** one of their handmade felted cat caves, and we were truly delighted as we've often seen these gorgeous cat beds and wondered what it would be like to have a bit of a catnap in one!

Anyhoo, we took delivery on Friday and fell in love with it immediately. 

Watch our video to see how we got on.

Click here to watch on YouTube.

Smooch has since taken full possession of it, and it is now in the catservatory, although we have spied both Melvyn and Fudge sneaking in for a daytime snooze.

The Catnap Cat Cave is very well made, and fully hand-washable. Mew just reshape while damp. 

Being made from 100% New Zealand organic merino wool it is really snuggly and warm which in this freezing weather we are experiencing is really great, and for the summer it is breathable so helps to regulate temperature; there's nothing quite like natural fibres. 

Our experience with the Catnap Cave is unequivocally pawsitive, it's a supurr snuggly cat bed, and we think every cat should have one! MOL

If mew'd like to get your mittens on one of these pawesome cat caves, there's 29% off (as per the date of this post), and they come in three colours; the lovely soft grey which we have, a solid black and white+grey.

If you're looking for a gift for Catmas or another occasion, this would be TOP PAW, or as we like to say at BBHQ, EPICALLY EPIC! 

We know mew won't be disappointed.

Very many thanks to the lovely peeps at www.catnapcave.com for allowing us to experience one of their catnap caves; we really do love it.

**FYI: Even though we were given this item/s free of charge for a review, our review is completely honest and reflects our own experience with the product/s

Next up in the news

The Monthly Meeting

Fudge, Melvyn, Pandora and Parsley were in attendance, as Amber was sleeping and Smooch was snacking.

The minutes included the following points:

What time second and third breakfast should be served.

Who's going to be responsible for this year's Catmas Decorations.

Who's in charge of ordering treats, as stocks are running low.

What is the best time for nighttime zoomies, a ballot is in place to vote on the optimal time.

and lastly,

Who ate all the fresh tuna? An investigation is pending.

And finally this week

Chaos on The Catwalk

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

It was a draw between the Catmas Cats and Candy Cane's bandanas, so he decided that both would feature today.

Melvyn's usual modelling gig was thoroughly disrupted this week; just take a look at the chaos on the catwalk as he tries to strut his stuff. He even had a little meltdown - poor Melvyn!

The Catwalk Chaos video: click here to watch direct on Youtube and see Smooch get rolled!

Plus he's fired Fudge, as the ginger ninja on his first run up the catwalk got distracted by snacks - oh dear. 

Check out this week's final catwalk videos on:

Wearing the Candy Cane bandana on TikTok

Wearing the Catmas Cats on Instagram

Doesn't he look furbulous?

Which one should he model next?

The options from the top left in a clockwise direction:

1. Catmas Cats

2. Festive Unicorns

3. Candy Canes

4. Jingle Yowl the Way

5. New Years Pawty

 Let us know in the comments which one should be the top pick, and Melvyn will model it on next week's post.

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 Crafting with Cats, where we are making some very cute festive catnip toys. 

And here's a sneak peek for next week's news; we're unboxing the Catmas Feline and Fiction Subscription box. Check out the Halloween box here.

In the meantime

Epic purrs

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Welcome to The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Parsley's Hissed Off As The Catmint Was Pruned, Smooch Goes Glamping in Melvyn's Tent and Who's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick This Week? Melvyn's Miffed!

Epic Wednesday Greetings Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

How's your week going? 

The internet issue is still not solved, and if mew missed any previous updates, click here to catch up. BT have sent out emails to say the fault is repaired however after several speed tests we are stills stuck at 12.5 download and 1.63 upload which is absolutely dire, when we should have around 70+ mbps.

Therefore we will endeavour to keep calm and carry on as best we can until it's fixed properly.

First up in the news 

 Parsley's Hissed Off As The Catmint Was Pruned

In between the rain, and let me tell mew the rain has been endless the last few weeks, the P.A. has been trying to do a bit of a clean up in the garden before the frosts come.

One of the jobs is pruning the catmint which is planted in a few of the mill wheel centres, as it tends to get really straggly, anyhoo Parsley appeared after this one had just been scalped and needless to say his was pretty hissed off as he was after a little bit of the green stuff! MOL

Next up in the news

Smooch Goes Glamping in Melvyn's Tent

The tent is Melvyn's favourite snooze spot and the P.A. often finds him fast asleep in it usually first thing in the mornings. And nothing will wake him as he's just so comfy, in fact he's so soundly asleep that he can miss breakfast, either that or he's just not a morning purrson! 

This supurr snuggle spot is the reason he's so miffed in the next story.

Smooch snuck in after Melvyn had got out and soaked up all the warms left behind; what a smart dude! 

And finally this week

Melvyn's Miffed!

Melvyn's Fudge's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

Melvyn was late for this week's modelling session, so Fudge stepped in at the last minute, and we'd just done the catwalk run when Melvyn appeared. He'd only just gotten out of bed. #OOPS!

Anyhoo, Melvyn was pretty miffed, as the modelling gig is all his. So we came to an amicable agreement and he said he'd model a festive snowman bandana from last year just to get the Catmas vibes happening.

Check out their latest catwalk videos on Instagram :

Fudge

Melvyn

We think they both did a furrbulous job; it's nice to see how they both have a different catwalk style.

And here's a bit of extra gossip, Melvyn was seen adding an alarm clock to his Catmas letter to Santa Paws! MOL

Which one should he model next?

This is Melvyn's latest shopping haul from our epic pal Eric at Eric's Empawrium. If mew like any of them do stop by his Etsy store, and we have a discount code. See the left-hand sidebar for details.

The options from the top left in a clockwise direction:

1. Catmas Cats

2. Festive Unicorns

3. Candy Canes

4. Jingle Yowl the Way

5. New Years Pawty

 Let us know in the comments which one should be the top pick, and Melvyn will model it on next week's post

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 here's the link to catch up on The Catmas Crafting with Cats Rerun Part 1 and Tuesday's Catmas Crafting with Cats Rerun Part 2, so if mew feel like getting your mittens making festive stuff, we've got mew covered.

We are running all our previous Catmas Craft posts throughout December so keep a lookout for those in the coming weeks. We are also just planning this year's Catmas craft post and can't decide between a Festive Gingerbread House or a Catmas Igloo Nightclub; what do mew think we should make? Let us know in the comments.

In the meantime

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Smooch and Melvyn Go Glamping on The Sunday Selfies & Caturday Art Blog Hops

Epic greetings supurr furiends

Welcome to another selfie selection and today our theme is:

Smooch and Melvyn Go Glamping 

The P.A. bought this teepee for Melvyn, and there was a bit of a kerfuffle as Smooch got in it furst. Check out our little video on TikTok, and watch how Melvyn evicts Smooch! MOL

We're also joining in the lovely Athena's Art Hop so do stop by and show off your pawesome arty-farty skills.

This week we headed to the Prisma IOS App again and used the filter; Surf.

We also turned this fab arty-farty picture into a puzzle, so do stop by the puzzle page and take the Puzzle Challenge, see if mew can beat our time of 11 mins 27 secs. 

We're off to go snoopervise in the garden, as there's a lot of dead-heading to be done and mew can't believe the amount of leaves that came off the trees in the wind and storms during the last couple of weeks. Then we've got to make sure the roast dinner is cooked to our liking as we're having chicken today, and we love fresh chicken.

Join us tomorrow when we'll be here bright and breezy with another fun post.

Wishing mew lots of snoozy snuggles

Supurr Sunday Purrs

Basil & The B Team

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 Angel Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy and Sawyer ~ visit them at their pawesome blog:

www.thecatonmyhead.com

 

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