Mancat Monday at BBHQ with Sunny Smooch and More Fun Facts! **NIGHTTIME RITUALS**

It's Mancat Monday, and mew know what that means.

Today Smooch is here sharing all his uber manlycatness while he's chillaxing in the garden listening to some cat-tastic tunes! 

Doesn't he cut a marvellous specimen of a ruggedly handsome mancat?

We can almost guarantee all the ladycats in the cat blogosphere will be swooning right now over this handsome tripawed pin-up!

Fun Facts About Smooch

 Today we're going to tell mew more fun things about our little tripawed pal, all about his nighttime rituals.

Firstly, Smooch has commandeered the entire catservatory as his bedroom, he doesn't mind Pandora sharing now and again as long as she sleeps in the condo on the scratch-post and she's the only one allowed.  Although in the daytime, Amber does like to lounge in his bed - but don't tell him! MOL

Secondly, Smooch knows when he's ready for bed, and he likes to go to bed anytime between 10:00 and 10:30 pm every night like clockwork. So much so that if the P.A. or dad don't make a move to take him and fluff his pillows, he gets a bit of a huff on.

Thirdly, he has to go to bed with a little snack, so he has a paw-full of Dreamies to munch on before he gets settled in his bed and goes for his main snooze.

Top Secret Intel

For cods sake, don't let on that we told mew this extra snippet; he also likes a bit of brush just before bedtime to keep his fur supurr soft and fluffy with a special brush, but if he ever asks if we told mew this, we will deny all knowledge! MOL

Do mew have a bedtime routine?

We'll see mew on Wednesday when we're back with The Midweek News Round-Up, until then...

Keep calm and chillax like Smooch

Commander Basil and The B Team  

 

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**SMOOCH REVISITED** Smooch Around The Wurld and Today We're Smooching All Offur Port Douglas, Queensland in The Magical Land of OZ with Tuna of Moon as My Pawesome Travelling Companion

Welcome To

Woo Hoo Pawsome Pals

Smooch here, and how are mew doing today?

So dudes and dudettes we're going to be Smooching All Offur The Planet as we Smooch Around the Wurld ~ how much fun, so much fun!

Oh and because The B Team doesn't use conventional means of travel, I'll be using the TTTB aka the Time Travelling Telephone Box to go on my little jolly's, so thank cod I won't have to use an airport as I don't think I'd get through security with all the extra covert hardware I travel with! MOL

Furst though I have to do my travel check list:

Oh and I've already had all my travel vaccinations, as mew neffur know and I always think it's better to have the lot rather than risk getting some foreign lurgy which in turn ruins your jolly's! 

So where are we going today?

Today beautiful furriends we're off to the magical land of Oz, last time I went to Tasmania and it was a little bit fresh so I thought some warmz were needed and I decided the tropics were just the place to go! MOL  And also this week I have the best travel companion effur, Tuna of Moon from the pawesome Tabbies of Trout Towne is joining me fur the adventure of a lifetime.

I got his travel docs sorted, courtesy of my epically epic forging skillz contacts in the foreign office.

... just look at that, Tuna has wurld-wide access with no restrictions - wooo hoooo!

So anyhoo I hopped in the TTTB and teleported to Trout Towne, and thank cod Tuna set some flares off on the beach otherwise I might have landed in the sea! MOL

The TTTB landed on the glistening, white sand with a soft thwump.  I threw the door open - quite literally - and Tuna was causally strolling towards me carrying a small case and a paperbag.

I waved most enthusiastically and gave him a huge hug and paw bump when he reached me. "Dude!" I said. "So great mew could join me on this little jolly today!"

"Smooch, thanks fur the invite!" Tuna beamed, then shook the paper bag. "And I brought a snack selection of No 5's, No 7's and a few No 3's fur the journey so we don't starve!"

[If mew're wundering what a No 5, No 7 and No 3 are, way back in 2016 in our Pirate adventure we had to blow up a kraken and rather than waste the tastiness, we ended up taking it back to BB-HQ and devising a lot of kraken recipes and the Tabbies are our biggest customers in the entire US fur Kraken delicacies, we ship them an order at least once a month]

"Dude that's so epic," I replied grinning and taking one of the deep fried kraken rings and dipping in the wowkapow sauce Tuna offured. "Oh jeez that sauce is just amazing dude!"

He nodded and said, "Dude that hot sauce is the best!" 

His eyes almost bugged out as we entered the TTTB. "Smooch I can't believe I'm actually in the wurld famous TTTB, IT'S HUGE in here..." he looked around the bridge in awe. "Like in my wildest dreams I couldn't of effur imagined the size, mew could get lost in here fur days!"

"Fudge got lost fur an entire week once!" I laughed. "But he's ok now!"  

Then I added. "Would mew like to do the honours and push that red button." I pointed to the control console and grinned wildly.

Tuna gasped in delight and paw-smacked the button and off we popped.

32.9433333333333r seconds later we landed.

We burst out of the door and were greeted by miles and miles of beach and ocean, in fact we'd just come from that exact same scenario but this time we were DOWN-UNDER ~ The most deadliest continent on the planet.

We got out the deck chairs as Tuna is quite partial to a bit of chillaxing; next we got the mini speedboat, the surf board, the brolly set up and I whipped us up a couple of coconutty grasstini's. Tuna tried a bit of snorkelling, but broke the surface of the water in a rather frenzied fashion and said, "Smooch dude, there's a fluffing giant jelly fish down there!" 

"Thank cod it wasn't a shark dude!" I replied and then remembered that up here there were salt water crocs, yep they live in the ocean too!

So all water activities were ceased immediately and we decided at that point to head inland and check out some of the sights.

As mew can see Tuna and I had a blast, we saw a few war memorials which we paid our respects at fur fallen hero's in WWII, as we know it most impawtant to honour those that gave their lives fur us today.  

We saw kangeroos, there was some real vishus burds, the cassowary; apparently a descendent of the dino rapters, and can gut mew with one swipe, although I diverted Tuna so we missed that and we went to see the crocs instead.

Tuna said as we started to pack the TTTB, "Mew know my sisfur Dai$y wants to go shopping somewhere fabulous and my new baby brofur Mack should come on a jolly with mew to give him some Wurld experience dude, he's young and I think it would be great fur mew to show him life outside of Trout Towne!"

"Dude it would be my purrleasure to take Miss Dai$y somewhere epic and also to take young Mack under my paw and take him on a really great adventure and I can't thank mew enough fur joining me on this one today, dude mew're epic!"

Tuna grinned and replied. "Smooch buddy, even though mew only have 3 legs, and we've been to the most dangerous continent in the wurld, I've neffur felt safer, thanks dude mew're the best!"

And sadly that brings us to the end of our OZ experience, we do hoped mew enjoyed seeing the sites and it's time I got Tuna safely back to Trout Towne before the FSG realises he's gone! MOL 

Thanks so much fur joining Tuna and I on our magical OZ adventure and I'll be back before mew know it sharing another far-flung destination so hope mew'll join me then!

Until next time

Keep Calm 

and 

Don't Furget The Bug Spray

Smooch

 

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The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Smooch Got A Tick, Parsley's On Pawtrol and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Top Pick Bandana **PLUS* This Weeks Top Videos

 Furbulous Greetings Supurr Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

It's been rather rainy the last few days at BBHQ, and overnight there must have been a bit of a deluge as the Mewton-Clawson Main Street was flooded. A few years ago the council spent months and months digging up the main street to counteract this issue by adding new bigger pipes and the like. And it must have cost a small fortune, yet here we are, and some parts of the main street need waders to cross. So that was a waste of time and resources, but so it goes, at least they tried.

Anyhoo, last week we mentioned that the swallows were still here and that we still hadn't cropped the catnip. We think the swallows have now departed, as we haven't seen them since Sunday, but we'll wait a few more days, just in case they are still bipping about.

And we'd like to show mew the BBHQ 8G interwebs connection! MOL

Seriously though, aren't spiderwebs so meautiful, and even more so when sparkling with raindrops. (Sorry, the picture isn't great, it was quite windy so the focus is out).

And just before we dive into this week's top news, take a look at this dahlia, the colour is just exquisite; a shade of violet-mauve. In fact, I don't think we've ever seen this shade of dahlia before, it was a new one for BBHQ this year.

Isn't it furbulous?

Hopefully, weather permitting, we'll be doing a spot of deadheading this week, as the rain has ruined almost all the flowers now.

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

First up in the news this week

 Smooch Got A Tick

The P.A. noticed that Smooch was walking strangely on his back leg on Friday night, though she couldn't see anything that could be visibly causing it, and then Cat Dad noticed it on Sunday.

Some filthy, little bloodsucking tick was in his fur on the back leg. It had been really gorging itself and had grown that much that it was now visible among the fur. YUCK!   

Luckily, we have a tick-removing tool, so the P.A. got Smooch upside down, while Cat Dad twisted that bloodsucking fiend off him. Though poor Smooch did cry out as it was removed. And then that bloodsucker was despatched by fire into the netherworld. 

Anyhoo, they cleaned and disinfected the area and are now bathing it daily to make sure there's no infection at the wound site.

And yes, we are aware of Lymes disease and other complications, so will be extra vigilant in the coming days.

Next up in the news

 Parsley's On Pawtrol

So as Smooch is out of action as far as the regular BBHQ pawtrols go, Parlsey is taking over his shifts, and here he is taking his job supurr seriously! 

He's a panfur on a one-cat mission, don't mess with The Sauce! MOL

Finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

This week, the Bear Necessities Bandana won the voting, and Melvyn really got into the vibe of hiding in the undergrowth, well, behind an indoor plant! MOL

He was a bit slow to start this week, as the weather has gone cold, and he was snoozing in his glamping tent, but once he got warmed up, he clawed it!

Check out Melvyn's videos on:

TikTok

Instagram

YouTube

Which one is your favourite this week? 

Which one should he model next?

Here's the brand new bandana collection for September.

The September collection, in a clockwise direction, starting from the top left:

1. Got A Foxy Feeling

2. Teal Stars

3. Cats, Bats and Ravens

4. Bear Necessities

We'll be sharing the brand new October Collection next week, and Melvyn will model the last of this month's pawesome collection.

 

EXTRA, EXTRA!

Check out this week's top videos:

A Flashback of The B Team To 2018 ~ TikTok

Celestial Basil's Angelversary Video ~ Instagram

Fudge Loves His Unicorn ~ YouTube

We'll be back tomorrow with Part II of our Pirate Tails Revisited 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:

The B Team's Whitby Abbey Selfie

Cats have Problems Too!

Friday Fluffers

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Amber on The Landing Planning Her First Book Review, Smooch's Clearing Out The Haunted House and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Top Pick Bandana **PLUS* The Winner of Parsley's Birthday Giveaway - IS IT MEW?

 Furbulous Greetings Supurr Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

Goodness, what a supurr scorchio few days it's been!

It just got hotter and hotter after last week's News Round-Up, and we had planned to cut the catnip, see below, as it's ready for cutting and drying. If mew want to see how we do it at BBHQ, check out our Definitive Guide to All Things Catnip, here.

However, our overseas visitors, the swallows are still here and just look at them below, aren't they cute?

There were four babies at the beginning of July, but we think that one didn't make it in the early weeks, so sad. And maybe another one didn't make it as we've only seen the two on the left in recent days, with Mum and Dad on the right. But we could be wrong, maybe #3 is just shy and lurks in the nest a lot.

Their nest is at the other end of the carport, and the parents are still feeding them, but usually, they've left by now. In recent years, they depart around the last week of August or the first week of September, so this is unusual.

Anyhoo, this is why we haven't cropped the catnip yet, as we don't want to disturb them while they're getting ready to leave, as we hang the catnip underneath where their nest is. And the smell is quite strong, especially if its hot weather.

So the catnip will have to wait until after they've gone.

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

First up in the news this week

Amber on The Landing Planning Her First Book Review

For all those wondering when Amber will be back?

Her first review of the new season will be on the 6th of October. She was planning a mid-month comeback this week, but she decided she needed another couple of weeks off, as she's still got quite a few books to get through.

Next up in the news

Smooch's Clearing Out The Haunted House

Smooch loves the Haunted House and often vanishes into the library for a sneaky snooze in there while Amber is not looking.

Anyhoo, the other he was having a little tidy up and a clear out as somepawdy dragged the catnip Easter Eggs inside and he said it was getting purretty cramped in there! MOL

If mew haven't seen our Haunted House crafting post, check it as Halloween is just around the corner. There are lots and lots of Halloween crafts on our Crafting with Cats page if mew're looking for fun things to make for cats this spooky season.

Finally this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

This week's top pick, as voted for by mew is:

Got A Foxy Feeling! 

We were convinced that the Bear Necessities bandana was going to win this week, but we were wrong! MOL

Melvyn really enjoyed this week's catwalk strut, and Fudge was there to photobomb him all the way. 

In fact, we think he might have to start wearing the bandanas too, as every week he wants to be involved. We'll see what we can choreograph - wish us luck! MOL

Check out Melvyn's videos on:

TikTok

Instagram

YouTube

Which one is your favourite this week? 

Which one should he model next?

Here's the brand new bandana collection for September.

The September collection, in a clockwise direction, starting from the top left:

1. Got A Foxy Feeling

2. Teal Stars

3. Cats, Bats and Ravens

4. Bear Necessities

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

EXTRA, EXTRA!

The Winner of Parsley's Birthday Giveaway

Drumroll purrlease...

via GIPHY

And the winner drawn out of the hat* is: 

Bonnie aka MiracleCat61 from Instagram

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO! 

MANY CONCATULATIONS! 

If mew can email us your snail mail address at your earliest convenience, that would be epic.  
deardrbasil @ gmail . com 

Thank mew to everypawdy else who entered, and don't wurry if mew didn't win this time; there will be another giveaway happening on the 18th September for Pandora's 10th Birthday. 

*And just in case mew're wondering how we pick the winner, we type the full list of names from the blog post and Instagram post, then paste them into the random name picker at www.miniwebtool.com, and it automatically picks the winner.

We'll be back 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:

The B Team's Windsor Castle Selfie

Cats have Problems Too!

Friday Fluffers

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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