The BB cafe

[Kazzl]

The BB cafe is open for business!
Welcome all to a new chill and chat place for everyone on the forum.

The BB cafe is whatever you want it to be. There are comfy sofas, tables and chairs, coffee machines, a kitchen stocked with everything. There's a pool outside, a bbq area, an annexe with comfy beds for a quiet sleep, tv, dvd, books and whatever else you would like to have here.

Most of all, it's a place to meet friends and fellow travellers for a bit of company. Talk over problems, tell jokes, share your day, escape into a world of your making. Grab a coffee and pull up a chair ... 

So, with a nod to the wonderful Carole King (Hard Rock Cafe) ...

Now if you're feeling just a little bit lonely
Don't sit at home just mopin'
Come on down to where the friendship flows freely
You know the door is always open

At the BB cafe
Come to the BB cafe
They will help keep your blues at bay
At the BB cafe

Important Message from ModSupport: 
The main intention of the BB Cafe is to encourage light conversation. Please look after your fellow community members by nuturing the BB Cafe as a place to escape some of the more pressing issues in life and save those conversations for personal threads. 

[mmMekitty]

Hi Matchy,

I am taking what is happening piece by piece, because this is how I feel I cope better. with everything, The idea of the whole lump of everything is there in my mind, but that doesn't mean I have to be at the centre of it. I stand aside & see it's there, & things fall out, onto me,& one by one, I recognise & if I can, I deal with, if not right now, they'll get themselves back into the lump.

Funny, right now it looks like a huge pile of washing. Maybe that's because I have a load in my dryer, & can hear it's motor & some buttons, I suppose, hitting the steel barrel inside as the washing is tossed around.

& I've now got a warmer flat! 😸Now I could enjoy beetroot, cheese & pesto sandwich, on multigrain bread.

The little jar of pesto is supposed to only last a few days, so I'm putting some in almost everything! Not my bikkies, & not my cereal ... ah, I can't think of anything else it won't go in.

It's a little brighter outside today, though it has still been raining. 🙀 *sigh* We just need to brighten things up in other ways. Bright happy music? Who's for brash Latin-American dance music? Do it get your body moving? 😺🎶

[mmMekitty]

Hi Leisa,

That does sound disappointing. I don't know, I don't understand the way some people behave sometimes. You might think it's the alcohol, but I also wonder what it is that during an afternoon, during a performance, the alcohol is such a feature at all.

Hope your studying is going well. But, by all means, take a break sometimes, to stretch your legs, have a drink of water, eat a meal... I don't think cramming achieves what people doing that hope for.

😺While I'm not too uncomfortable, I'm okay. But I'm getting t;he feeling I won't be comfortable for much longer this afternoon. 😾 But I would love some more music today.

🎶mmmmmmm🎶mmMekitty

[monkey_magic]

Sorry to hear about your son being in hospital Matchy, is he ok? And are you ok?

[Guest_1584]

l'm just so damn pleased , soooo pleased , that Morrison and his mob and the shame they've brought o us and our country , over and over again, are out .

Hopefully people, our soul good will and being human again will be returned to us all.

Tis a bloody good day.

rx

[britishtvfan]

hi all. since i recently asked here about if it's normal to defend people such as actors that you like (i mean if someone says something bad about them, & false accusations, like yes everyone has an opinion but it's normal to be defensive?).

i was wondering, does anyone think it's normal to miss a celebrity that you've never met even if you just recently became a fan of them?

the actor i'm talking about passed away in 2020, in january. i only just discovered him probably last year or earlier this year, i can't remember. i've watched everything he's in that i can find, sadly a lot of stuff that seems to be rare that i can't but i'd love to.

i always do that though - find an old british actor (since i just watch british sitcoms & comedians, well except one that's irish), get obsessed, find out they've passed away, get heartbroken, wish i was around in the 70s & 80s so i could've met &/or written to them, get devastated & beat myself up so to speak that i didn't find them earlier, because i'm too young (23 this year).

i know it sounds stupid & dramatic, overreacting. but is anyone else like this? how can i miss someone i've never met? i think it's normal but i also think i'm being stupid. i just need reassurance i guess.

sorry to change the subject. PS matchy i'm sorry your son was in hospital.

[monkey_magic]

Hi robthomaslover,

Dont worry girl your perfectly normal. That's why these actors/ celebrities have millions of fans. You love them and/ or their work and they become familiar to you.

Id be upset if something happened to my faves.

[Guest_1584]

Hiya mb, at least l think it was that, like using your old one bc it's much shorter haha.

Not to say though there's anything wrong with you missing actors at all if you do. But me nah not much most of them are just too la la land for me but l do really miss and think it's so sad when we lose a special muso like Bowie or Cobain or some others, the Cranberries lead singer. l have a bit of a problem listing to their music if they've passed to. l know it's stupid they'd be looking down and wanting us to still enjoy it , but l just do.

Take care

rx

[britishtvfan]

hi monkey & random. sorry everyone that i made things awkward by asking that here. i should've written it i not my own thread, apologies. i wasn't even looking at which thread this was. that's true monkey, thanks. random, yes i was mb20lover. what do you mean la la land? yes i agree with you about david bowie & kurt cobain.

[mmMekitty]

Good morning, Tayla, & everyone,

I actually saw a bit of sunlight this morning!...ah, but it's behind cloud already. My poor little plant, now like a miniture Elephant Ear Plant, but only has two small leaves....how will it get bigger in all this cool & gloomy weather?

I don't think there is any problem with asking your questions here, Tayla. It's one of those questions I enjoy because I realise I haven't given much thought to it.

I think it is very common for people to feel some sort of connection with an actor, singer, musician -these in particular, & I might also include members of the English Royal Family.

It has always puzzled me how my step-sisters seem drawn to liking an actor or pop group or singer, to the extent they were fans, & would have posters, & complain if anyone interrupted a movie or while their song was on the radio, & would talk of loving them,, how gorgeous they were... all of that.

I know I liked some Beatles music, the individual voices, but never felt like wanting to touch or scream with joy when I heard them. Have you ever seen some of the old footage of the Beatles in concert or when they would disembark from an aeroplane, & the fans would riot?

Similar for Elvis or Tom Jones. I just didn't get how overcome with emotion people could get about someone they don't really know.

When I was young. we had autograph books, & ideally, you'd try to not only get close enough to say 'I love you' for them to actually hear you, but you'd have your autograph book ready to get them to sign it. & you'd have something to show-off at school. Not me.

Joni Mitchell's music has meant so much to me over the years, since I was a teenager, & although I would like to write to tell her & my feelings overwhelm me, & words I write are not enough.

I wonder if it is her or what her music meant to me that I appreciate? I think it was the music, the way her voice was able to reach me where I was many times, as if it was a life raft & could carry me through the years.

Even that feels like a little story I tell myself, because I couldn't believe I could carry myself, I am the one behind my being here today.

I think another question is why look beyond ourselves for whatever it is these entertainers seem to give us? What is missing in our lives that we need them to provide?

mmMekitty

[Guest_1584]

Hiya mb and noooo, not at all . l'm not in this one much but it's suppose to be a cafe though right , talk about whatever you like all welcome far as l'm concerned .

la la land well , actually the UK actors seem a lot more real and grounded than the Hollywood types l can well see why you prefer them , l do to. So nah not so much them but the Hollywood actors. l mean they don't live a normal life do they all that money and fame it's all fake, can't even walk down a street or into a shop like a normal person. l just find most of the Hollywood types just really fake and out of touch with reality.

Take care

rx