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The BB cafe

Kazzl
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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

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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. 

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I haven’t been around for a bit, but seems I chose the right time to pop by - there’s cake and good tunes! I’ll take a fat slice of butter cake please Grandy! And very happy wishes to you mmMeKitty! I won’t sing with my mouth full, I promise! 

Yes, this definitely seems a better option than dragging myself out of bed to exercise. It’s been a rainy Netflix day here, but at least we didn’t have hail (unlike further north) and I don’t have to worry about a  damaged plant collection. 

ok, no-one look, I’m going in for another slice of cake (um mah!). Lucky there’s plenty for everyone x

mmMekitty
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Hi Grandy, EM & everyone.

Love the cake, a something for everyone cake, just love it. Lately I yearn for some good Tirasimu & I'd like to also have some good Black Forrest Cake. I'd never turn down a carrot cake with the buttery icing, or a big lamington, & also, from emory, (being a very long time ago), Angel Food Cake.

I've had one of the muffins I bought, & it's very chocolaty, with small chunks of milk & white chocolate on top of chocolate icing, over the rich, almost muddy chocolate cake. I have it with custard. That was yummy good too.

Thanks for the windchime/dreamcatcher, so delicate, the chimes tinkle ever-so-gently where I put it, not so it can be blown about by any strong winds, but get a fraction of a light breeze, which is enough for this fragile ornament, like something from a fairy garden! 

Yeah, I'm taking at least three days, maybe four or five, we'll see how I go - or when the cake runs out, with singing between bites, & pizza, & Potato thingys (not naming brands), the sausage sizzle , with sushi, fresh squeezed orange juice with soda water to fizz it up over the top, the cheesy pretzels are good - oh, don't forget to pour the custard over the cake! Don't mind the candles - there is no way I can blow them all out without a handy electric fan under my arm.

See, Grandy, you have not been late at all. (& if you were, I'd wait for you anyway).😹

Big warm v.hugs to all!

mmMekitty

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Good on'ya Futsal players, young & old.😺 

Hello Kathy, excellent timing!

You've given me the idea for a new (probably terrible) joke.

Q: How do you know when you can have another slice of cake?

A: When nobody is looking.

How have you been? How are you finding the upgraded Forums?

It is good to see you again. 😺

Warmly, 💖

mmMekitty

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Hello everyone, ive just opened and account on some website called Reddit. First time for me since this site at start of year and leaving facebook in 2014. All good?, anyone seen "Rick n Morty"? I feel alot like Morty here. Okay im outa here before I hear the Booming voice "Did I say you can leave?"

Hello NoStampCollectorFan, & welcome to the Forum, a place of care & kindness, non-judgement & consideration for eachother. This is a safe place for you to talk about things on your mind.

This BB Cafe is a casual, friendly place to meet & have light-hearted chat. (I got a bit serious before, but tonight I'm celebrateing part of my Birthday, so please, you are welcome to stay & have a piece of your favourite cake. & sing any song you would like on the jukebox.

Tonight my head has bits of romantic songs, even though I don't want to sing romantic songs., so I don't know what to put on the Jukebox, & it's my party, so I'll sing what I want to, but I somehow don't know what that is... 

Oh, maybe the Steely Dan, Get Back Jack... wheels turnin' 'round & 'round... I was listening the other day on YouTube. I didn't remember who these people were. I have a version from Tori Amos, which I like very much.

Warmly,

mmMekitty

Hanna3
Community Member

Hi mmMekitty

I don't know what day your birthday was but best wishes for it anyway! I hope you have a good year ahead! Cheers! 🍻🎂🎉💐🎊

 

mmMekitty
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Hello Hanna, thank you.

I have had a healthy breakfast, but after that, anything is possible!

This morning I'm singing 'Chelsea Morning' by Joni Mitchell. Then 'Feelin' Groovy' by Simon and Garfunkel. These songs convey the mood I want to maintain today.

💖💖💖💖

mmMekitty

sbella02
Community Champion
Community Champion

MmMekitty,

 

I could go for a good chocolate muffin right about now, you're making me hungry with that description!

 

Wishing you a happy birthday as well, for the other day (I'm assuming)! 

 

Today to the BB Café I bring sliders for everyone to share, with plenty of gluten-free and lactose-free options too. While we enjoy our mini burgers, I'm curious to hear what people's all-time favourite songs are? I have several, one of my ultimate faves is "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga, I love that song.

 

Hope everyone's having a good day too 🙂

 

SB

Hi to all and a Happy Birthday mmMkitty,

 

We share a birth month and the exact date is not too important. At least it wasn't important the day I was born.

I was born before midnight according to my Grandmother but the midwife entered the incorrect date as the clock had ticked over by the time she was filling in the paperwork. My mum wasn't too fussed either way. But I will add that many of my favourite people where born around this time of the year.

 

Love Feelin' Groovy. It's the type of music that does put you in a fabulous mood. Enjoy the rest of day and week...

 

I am grabbing a quick afternoon tea before I get back to work 😀

mmMekitty
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Hi Fiatlux, please, share an extended Birthday with me! That would be so fun. We could link arms & skip (maybe, or maybe not quite), down the road singing harmony for everyone to enjoy.

 

NO confirmation, no denial, SB, no assumptions will be entered into here. 😺

 

I forget sometimes how my imagination insists I can eat more than is realistic. There is still plenty of cake & custard, pretzels too, for anyone to enjoy.

 

The greatest band on BB is setting up for a late gig, so please, stake out your places in time for Waking The Walrus's wonderful show. It could be huge, or not, depending upon how many 🐧🐧penguins 🐧🐧turn up.

We'll settle into some quiet music after 'round midnight, which sounds appropriate, wot?.

Then the theme from Midnight Cowboy...

 

mmMekitty, who might be 63, which is 7 years of each of my 9 lives!