**NEW** Friday Fill-ins and **RERUN** Welcome To Our 8 Things About... Post And Today It's All About Melvyn

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WOO HOO pawesome greetings furrbulous furiends

Sorry, Amber's not here today, there was an interruption in the book supply chain this week and the book she'd got her heart set on sharing had been checked out of the library and not returned.

As mew can imagine this caused quite a stir (#understatementofthecentury) and Amber has had to have a few days off to recover from the stress, she'll be back next week as usual once we've found the book and cod help the poor sap who didn't return it on time!  

So today we're revisiting 8 Things About... 

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

8 Things About Melvyn

FYI the original post was originally shared on the 28th of March 2019.

1.  Melvyn arrived at BBHQ on the 12th January 2019, although he didn't appear on the blog until our Valentine's edition of Crafting with Cats, and he was approximately one and a half years old when he arrived.

He was not used to having toys or catnip before he arrived at BBHQ, but he's been making up fur all of that since his arrival.

2. He really loves his furry orange carrot.

This is one of his favourite toys. 

3.  Melvyn is a little bit of a weirdo, want to know why? Of course mew do, just watch the video below...

See what we mean, what cat carries his collar? he doesn't even like to wear one, just play with it and he likes to take all of our collars too, and even the spare ones out of the tin!  Both Smooch and Fudge have lost collars to The Melvynator, one yellow and one green! OOPS MOL!

The Melvynator knows exactly where our collars are kept in the cupboard in the laundry when we're not wearing them, and the minute he hears a bell, he's there trying to collar-snatch our clothes!  **UPDATE** He's still obsessed with collars today - March 2021.

4.  He has the most golden eyes we've effur seen. Seriously they're like glowing citrines, just look. 

5. Melvyn is like the Harry Potter of Cats, instead of a lightning bolt scar on his forehead, he has a lightning bolt of white fur down his back, so this is definitive proof that Melvyn also survived Voldemort ~ Fluffing Fluff, that's seriously hardcore dude!

HE IS THE CAT WHO LIVED! MOL

6.  Melvyn has a lovely temperament and is such a happy little camper, much like me his, great, great, great, great uncle Basil, take a look at this... mew can feel the happies radiating from him! 

7.  Melvyn was originally called Malcolm, although we felt this didn't suit him at all so he promptly got a new name. And yes, he's also called The Melvynator, like The Terminator only better! MOL

and finally...

8. This was Melvyn's furry furst day at BBHQ... typical Fudge...

MOL, it only got better from there on in! 

And that sadly brings us to the end of 8 Things About young Melvyn, we do hope mew enjoyed getting to learn a little more about my nephew. But if mew have a specific question about him, ask us in the comments.

Today the P.A. is also joining in Friday Fill-ins Blog Hop with the pawesome 15 & Meowing and Four-Legged Furballs.

1. I never have time to finish _________.

2. My _________ can _________.

3. _________ is a cause that is dear to my heart.

4. At this very moment, I _________.

The P.A.'s answers are...

1. I never have time to finish writing all my books, try as I may I have about 10 works in progress that I keep rotating when I get stuck on a particular plot.

2. My sewing machine can do lovely embroidery, a totally random fact to throw in the mix today! LOL

3. Pet adoption and welfare is a cause that is dear to my heart.

4. At this very moment, I'm in the catservatory, and I'm thinking about one of the books I've got on the go/writing, and it needs something harrowing/scary/traumatic to happen next and I'm stuck, so I'll go and make a cup of tea and then cogitate a while as I watch the birds stuff their faces at the feeders in the garden.

I had the Astra-Zenica Covid vaccine on Monday, and all went well. I felt really tired on Tuesday and my arm is still a bit sore but apart from that I can't say there were any adverse effects. My next one is in June.

Many thanks for joining at BBHQ today and we hope mew liked Melvyn's post, join us again on Sunday when Smooch is here sharing his sad selfie.

Until then...

Pawesome purrs

Basil & The B Team

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Colouring with Cats #88 ~ Getting Your OMs on with Mandalas on Mondays ~ Surprise Mandala & Melvyn's Lightning Blaze - The Cat Who Lived

Supurr Monday greetings beautiful furriends

Now we know we said we weren't back until the Fall/Autumn, well officially we're not but we couldn't resist sharing this summery mandala with mew today! 

Oh, and we have been working on some new mandalas ready fur our fourth colouring book which should be ready around Catmas, just in time fur the holidays!

Melvyn is here with our obligatory cat foto; he's showing off his magnificent lightning blaze, which we think is akin to Harry Potter's scar, so we say Melvyn must have survived Voldemort too, so therefore he is:

 The Cat Who Lived

Anyhoo, we do hope mew've all have a totally pawesome weekend and that mew're ready fur the week ahead, 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, unless otherwise stated.

Here's this weeks mandala.

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

And here's our finished version, a gorgeous orange chrysanthemum. 

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

Don't furget mew can **download** our free Colouring with Cats ~ Books One,Two & Three here, if mew haven't already done so:

 

Colouring with Cats Book One

Colouring With Cats Book Two ~ Easy Mandala's

Colouring With Cats Book III

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So on that note we'll say bye fur now and hope to see mew on Wednesday when we'll be back with the fabulous Pet Parade blog hop!

Until then

Keep Calm and Colour OM!

Bestest chilled and most relaxing purrs

Basil & The B Team

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Welcome To Our 8 Things About... Post And Today It's All About Melvyn

Welcome to

WOO HOO pawesome furiends

Welcome to another:- 8 Things About...

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

8 Things About Melvyn

1.  Melvyn arrived at BBHQ on the 12th of January, although he didn't appear on the blog until our Valentines edition of Crafting with Cats, he was approximately one and a half years old when he arrived.

He was not used to having toys or catnip before he arrived at BBHQ, but he's been making up fur all of that since his arrival.

2. He really loves his furry orange carrot.

This is one of his favourite toys, the P.A. got it from the dudes at Katzenworld when she saw them at the Birmingham Pet Show last year - dudes if mew're reading this, we need another furry orange carrot stat! MOL 

3.  Melvyn is a little bit of a weirdo, want to know why? Of course mew do, just watch the video below...

See what we mean, what cat carries his collar? he doesn't even like to wear one, just play with it and he likes to take all of our collars too, and even the spare ones out of the tin!  Both Smooch and Fudge have lost collars to The Melvynator, one yellow and one green! OOPS MOL!

The Melvynator knows exactly where our collars are kept in the cupboard in the laundry when we're not wearing them, and the minute he hears a bell, he's there trying to collar-snatch our clothes!

4.  He has the most golden eyes we've effur seen. Seriously they're like glowing citrines, just look... 

5. Melvyn is like the Harry Potter of Cats, instead of a lightning bolt scar on his forehead, he has a lightning bolt of white fur down his back, so this is definitive proof that Melvyn also survived  Voldemort ~ Fluffing Fluff, that's seriously hardcore dude!

HE IS THE CAT WHO LIVED! MOL

6.  Melvyn has a lovely temperament and is such a happy little camper, much like me his, great, great, great, great uncle Basil, take a look at this... mew can feel the happies radiating from him! 

7.  Melvyn was originally called Malcolm, although we felt this didn't suit him at all so he promptly got a new name. And yes, he's also called The Melvynator, like The Terminator only better! MOL

and finally...

8. This was Melvyn's furry furst day at BBHQ... typical Fudge...

MOL, it only got better from there on in! 

Melvyn has settled in beautifully and has made a wunderful addition to The B Team.  He'll be starting at our Kitty Kommando Academy soon, as he's still not been into the bunker and guess who's in charge of his training? 

And that sadly brings us to the end of 8 Things About young Melvyn, we do hope mew enjoyed getting to learn a little more about my nephew.  But if mew have a specific question about him, ask us in the comments and we'll reply.

If mew missed our previous '8 Things About' posts, here are the links:

8 Things About Fudge

8 Things About Amber

8 Things About Humphrey

8 Things About Smooch

8 Things About Pandora

Thanks effur so much fur stopping by today, and Parsley will be up next with another Pet Peeves post on Caturday, as Amber is hosting The Mewton-Clawson Historical Society ~ M.C.H.S. again tomorrow in the library. And if mew need a puzzle or two to do, stop by my puzzle page later as there are 3 new ones to do.

Pawesome purrs

Basil & The B Team

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