The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Amber's Sunny Afternoon in The Catservatory, Parsley's Mini Garden Safari, and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Top Pick Bandana **PLUS* An Epic Throwback To May 2018

Furbulous Greetings Supurr Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

We've had a few nice days of sunny weather again, although it did turn cooler on Monday. But we can't complain all things considered.

Remember last week, when we mentioned the hot pink and white lupin? We noticed that it hadn't bloomed, well we have epic news, it ambushed us late last week, and here it is. 

It really is purretty!

And here are this week's best blooms as chosen by Parsley - see our second news story below!

This week's selection consists of, in a clockwise direction starting at the top left corner:

Hot Pink and White Lupin

Pink Rose

White Snapdrogan

Purple Sage

White Foxglove

Yellow Rose

Pink and White Pelargonium

Pink Zinnia

Pale Pink Foxglove

We've also been working on a new garden, though we're not sure if we mentioned it before. It's down the side of the house, it's a long narrow strip of nothingness (it was quite grim, so much so that the P.A. has never taken a photo of it), and the P.A. has been at a loss for what to do with it for the last 23 years (MOL), so late last year after a lot of standing in the space and summoning any creative spirits who would listen for inspiration, she decided it might be a good idea to turn it into a small veggie garden with narrow raised beds. 

Anyhoo, on Caturday Dad built two raised beds with a cloche top on, and the P.A. built two garden arches to grow the runner beans up. And yes, the runner beans have just broken through the soil and are getting ready to bolt, although they will have their tops pinched out when the second set of leaves appear this week.

The raised beds need painting - yep another painting job - before anything is planted. But the good news is that a redundant/dead space is now being repurposed and will hopefully look quite lovely by the end of the summer, so we'll share a few pictures. We'll take one now, so mew can see it under construction and share it next week.

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

First up in the news this week

Amber's Sunny Afternoon in The Catservatory

Amber was sulking in the catservatory on Sunday as the P.A. had tried to wipe her eyes again and she threw a bit (a lot) of a hissy fit, OOPS! MOL

And we have some lovely eye wipes for this job, yet she's completely non-compliant.

Next up in the news

Parsley's Mini Garden Safari

Parsley was in the garden on Sunday morning enjoying a mini garden safari as the P.A. took the photos for this week's flower collage - above - in fact it was all his idea and he chose which flowers he wanted to share with mew today. He's such a little gardening aficionado! MOL

Finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

The Bee Fabulous bandana won with a majority vote last week, and it was our favourite too! 

We think this really looks fabulous on Melvyn, what do mew think?

Check out Melvyn strutting his stuff, plus Pandora and Fudge crash this week's catwalk run! MOL

Watch it unfold here:

TikTok

Instagram

YouTube

 

Which one should he model next?

Here's the brand new bandana selection for June.

The options from the top left in a clockwise direction:

1. Astrology For Cats

2.  Purrtastic Peach Blossom

3. Bee Fabulous

4. Fairy Magic

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

EXTRA, EXTRA!

An Epic Throwback To 2018 

Do mew remember Ramsbottom? 

Amber reviewed a book about a cat who herded sheep and we thought we'd give it a go! MOL 

Check out the post by clicking here.

That's us done for today, we will be here tomorrow with another Quick Cat Guide, and Amber will be back on Friday with another fab book just for mew, plus if mew missed any other posts, here are the links, as mew can see we've had a really busy week:

The B Team's Sunset at Stonehenge Selfie

Brain Training with Cats

Smooch Around The Wurld - Japan

Celestial Basil's 21st Birthday Pawty and Giveaway

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Floofy Fudge in The Garden, Pandora in Stealth Mode and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Top Pick Bandana **PLUS* An Epic Throwback To 2018 **AND** June's Brand New Bandana Selection

Furbulous Greetings Supurr Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

It's blooming marvellous at BBHQ this week, just take a look at these luscious lupins.

There is one stretch in the front border that is a lupin paradise; it must be the most optimum place, as they don't grow like this anywhere else in the garden. And believe us when we tell mew, we have tried them everywhere, as new seedlings emerge in the gravel every spring and the P.A. will carefully remove them and pot them on. Once they are bigger, she when will plant them in various places around the garden, but they never do as well as these here.

And each year, new colours emerge, we are waiting to see if the hot pink and cream one from last year emerges - see pic below, as so far that's on the missing list. We have a light pink and a darker pink one just about to pop, plus there's a very light pink and white.

Isn't it gorgeous?

And while we love lupins, the only problem is the big, blue juicy aphids that love them too. And right before these photos were taken, the P.A. had just washed the latest onslaught off the lupins; we don't like using chemicals in the garden due to all the insects and wildlife so a gentle hose-off is the only deterrent used. 

The P.A. has tried a couple of methods to get rid of the aphids, such as a couple of drops of washing-up liquid in water, mixing it well and lightly spraying it on. This resulted in not only getting rid of the aphids but it also damaged the flowers. She has also tried the special gardener's soap, with the same result. So she figured it's just best to rinse them off every night, but it is like fighting the Borg, as they are such relentless little fluffers, intent on mass destruction of such beauty. 

Ah nature, apparently there's a reason for everything, but we can't think of one for aphids! Sometimes the smaller birds cotton on to the huge protein buffet on offer, but most of the time the aphids keep marching onward and upward! MOL 

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

First up in the news this week

Floofy Fudge in The Garden

Fudge was being supurr floofy the garden, he adores his mini garden safaris and bipping about everywhere and checking out absolutely everything.

He also has a tendency to sneak over the fence, so he is heavily snoopervised at all times. And while it's ok he goes over the back fence to the P.A.'s cousin's house and field, he sometimes goes over the side fence into nextdoors front garden, which then leads onto the main street. So if he looks like he's going AWOL, he's promptly put back inside.

Mew can never be too careful!

Next up in the news

Pandora in Stealth Mode

Pandora was hiding on top of the fence behind the rose the other day. She was spying on Smooch who had no idea she was up there.

Smooch would be really hissed off if he knew! MOL

Finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

Finally, the Stars and Moon bandana got to the BBHQ catwalk, or runway depending on your preferred terminology, and it looks epic! 

Melvyn looked adorable in this one, and he really did a great job on the catwalk today, as mew can watch below on your preferred platform, plus each video has different mewsic, so mew can enjoy three separate funky tracks if mew watch them all! MOL

Check out Melvyn strutting his stuff on:

TikTok

Instagram

YouTube

 

Which one should he model next?

Here's the brand new bandana selection for June.

The options from the top left in a clockwise direction:

1. Astrology For Cats

2. Purrtastic Peach Blossom

3. Bee Fabulous

4. Fairy Magic

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

EXTRA, EXTRA!

An Epic Throwback To 2018 

This epic photo was taken on the 5th of  May 2018.

❤️ Ahhhh the good old days! ❤️

That's us done for today, do join us tomorrow for my 21st Birthday Pawty and Giveaway, then we'll be back on Friday with Amber and another fab book, and if mew missed any other posts, here are the links:

The B Team's Fairy Pools Waterfall Selfie

Brain Training with Cats

The B Team's Quick Cat Guide ~ Cat Wellness

Smooch Around The Wurld - The Epic Japan Adventure

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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Brain Training with Cats #68 with your Epic host ~ Professor Basil P.H.D. **PLUS** A Furbulous Throwback To March 2018

Happy Monday guys

Welcome to another fab Brain Training sesh on the blog today...

And this week I'm sharing a throwback from March 2018, so not that long ago really and this is another of the P.A.'s fav pics of me.

She said at the time, I was in such deep thought I had no clue she'd been taking my picture! The P.A. said my fur looked as white as fresh-fallen snow, and my eyes were like pale green amethysts... ahhhh shall we wax lyrical some more?  Nah just kidding, let's get brain training! MOL MOL

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

Here's the answer key to last week's sudoku #35

Are mew ready for this week's puzzle?

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

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

Here's this week's wurdsearch.

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

And here's this week's jigsaw puzzle, featuring yours truly of course! MOL

It took me 6 mins 3 secs...  How did you do?

I hope mew enjoy today's puzzles and we'll be back on Wednesday with some more midweek news, do stop by if mew get chance, until then...

Keep calm

and

Puzzle On

Epic purrs

Professor Basil 

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