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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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Helloooo BB Cafe attendees, thankyou for popping in AND if you're new here.... drum roll.....
Everyone is very welcome to post here!
I happened to notice we're up to 1973! Oh what a year! (That's PAGE number 1973 which is a HUGE collective achievement everyone :-))
If we can keep the conversation going, I'm sure we'll be ready for the New Year and page no 2023, YAY!
I'd like to DO so many things before the end of the year
AND
Get SO many things done!
I always pack my To Do List with far too many things. Oh well it's great to have stuff to do I guess? lol IDK.
Another early start tomorrow for work.
Can't wait to start my Leave soon, hopefully I will sleep in some days.
Having a party in the Cafe soon, my multiple sons have a birthday coming up and a BIG party too. LOVE parties hahaha... makes me get things looking nice in time for it. Then TONS of cleaning up afterwards.
Ordering 8 hay bales for seating around the Fire Pit.
There's already some makeshift seating there. I stacked some tyres up and put some planks across 4 piles of them. Saves Tip Fees lol!
Gotta make use of stuff if I can.
Happy Friday for tomorrow everyone. We're having a Family Games night tomorrow night, I'll just cater lol.
Love EM
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hi all. been a while since i've been on the BB cafe, i don't check the forums much. not sure what i can add to the conversation though.
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Always happy to see you, tealflowers. You can talk about anything you like, remembering in the BB Cafe, we try to keep fairly light.
Anything really. It doesn't have to be about what someone else just talked about either. & that goes for any new members wanting for a chat.
Or maybe, if this would help, let me ask, what have you done today? Something outdoors, or indoors? Have you done something for yourself or for someone else? You could find it fun to blab about something boring, even, & I'm sure I'd enjoy your descriptiong of it.
Have a think, while I tell you, today, I am continuing with my determination to get more salad into me. More cutting & tearing lettuce leaves, cutting onion & giving it a little soak in oil & stock powder, then frying, grating carrot, cutting tomatoes, beetroot slices, & making scrambled egg in a very small pot, I'm sure is supposed to be used to warm milk for bubs. I end up preparing too much for one meal, so I have salad for dinner too. I was a bit heavy-handed with the mayo, & then I realised I forgot the cheese!
Oh, what? Me, mmMekitty forgot the CHEESE - of all thing to forget... Maybe that's how to make it healthier, just 'literally forget' the cheese. 😹
I hope you, tealflowers, have had a lovely dinner, nice company with your family, & fun dreams tonight.
mmMekitty
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Hi EM,
Happy 🎂 Birthday to your sons! Hip-hip-hooray! (& the cake surely does have twice the candles so each must blow outthe the appropriate number??
😹If, as the saying goes, 'you are what you eat', then cows, sheep, goats, & other animals too, must also be vegetable. Some animals might be fruit ...? Is hubby going to include all those into his diet too?
mmmm, not sure how much thinking this line of thought will stand up to....😼
1973 - I can celebrate discovering the singer/songwriter, Melanie (last name Safka - if anyone wants to google, however she has been known as 'Melanie'), & I could sing & feel I had something no-one could take away from me.
Hugzies all, tealflowers, EM, anyone who would like a cuddle from a swirly red striped cat.❤️
mmMekitty
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hi mmMekitty & others.
i never really do anything, i've hardly left the house for months, not that i really ever have, i'm an introvert & a homebody really. i know it's bad.
i've just lost interest & motivation for things. i've been waiting to hear back from a psychologist in my area my GP referred me to, told my mum she'd email me some forms to fill in (the psychologist) in September. nearly the end of the month & haven't heard a damn thing. i know her wait list is 2-3 months but damn. so i'll look for another one even if they don't bulk bill & i don't get a MHCP. but then again i'd have to go through the trouble of taking forever to see my GP then getting another MHCP done. i don't even want to see one given my bad personal experiences. i would see a counsellor but they don't have as many qualifications so idk if that would be right for me.
sorry i'm going off track & in the wrong thread, my bad.
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I did ask! 😸
I'm surprised I am up so late again, but really, I must apologise, tealflowers, I have to go & get some sleep, with my legs up & so, I cna't answer now. Would you prefer I meet you in another Discussion, one of your own, perhaps? Name it, or come on over to mine, called:
Introducing mmMekitty
Enter the name of my Discussion into the search thingy)? We can talk there, too.
Later, like after sunrise, I'd love to hear about you see outside your windows. I'll try, too - though some of what I think is outside is pure guesswork these days. 😺& I don't have many windows, either.
Goodnight, again, (really, I'm off to bed, now.)
mmMekitty
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Hey everyone and new posters too!
The Beyond Blue Cafe is open to everyone. This is a super gentle place where people can have a light conversation without the more pressing issues in the personal threads
I have mentioned Capricciosa pizza as my favorite....Does anyone else like it besides me? I understand everyone is different even if you like pineapple on your pizza.... eww
Have a really good weekend everyone 😀
Paul
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Hi Paul, how about Capriccioso for brekkie? Or maybe a brekkie pizza could have other things, like the trendy smashed avo, mushrooms, bacon, tomato & spinnach - all with mozzerella cheese to keep everything stuck on the toasty crust? AND, With NO extra added salt. You can soso have a little fruit salad - all fresh fruit chunks with some yoghurt.
😺Good morning, everyone!
mmMekitty
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Good Morning tealflowers,
Here I am, a tad late, as I actually slept in! Really I was up too late for how I tend to feel even a couple hours earlier... no matter, here now.
& it looks like becoming a fine day, here, when, what looks to me like fog slowly lifting, & dissipating to become a sunny day. I can hear a little bird, 'wheep, wheep, wheep' in a tree somewhere beyond the back fence. Otherwise, the air feels still & calm. & not too hot or cold either, just now. It's actually quiet around here. I can only hear the traffic on the main road a little from where I live. It's amazing to me how I hear of little traffic. I hear some trucks, or when sirens wail, the car carrier tr;ucks bouncing along, as there are car yards nearby. Sometimes I hear a train, but not this morning.
The light is brighter now, & (if I can trust what my eyes tell me), is looking better. It was looking awful, sort of dim, dull & blue-grey for a while, but not now.
I have buildings back front & sides, & a couple large trees, so don't really see much of the sky.
It pleases me to note that nobody has left a mess of rubbish & the ground around does 't look so bad as it was. The grass out the back is actually green.
I think one of the bushes out in the back garden, (was it one I planted when I first moved in?) is actually flowering too. I remember planting a 'Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow' bush out there, because of how their flowers are first purple, then lavender, then white, then (sadly), drop. The flowers only last a few days each. Happily, they don't all open on the same day, so there can be flowers of all the shades from the rich pruple to snowy white on the bush.
A final note, now the sun is returning to the back of my place, someone is using the clothesline again. That's oka, so long as it's not something smelly out there for weeks at a time.
My surroundings don't exactly encourage me to go out, so I hope yours are better.
Tealflowers, & everyone, what's it like outside yours?
mmMekitty
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GOOD MORNING BB CAFE PEEPS!
New posters are always welcome to join in.
Hey Kitty, hope you got some nice sleep last night.
Hey Tealflowers, you can start off seeing a Counsellor while you're waiting. You can also ask your GP to PRINT OUT your MHCP, you can use it to see any Psych, this is what I've done in the past. It can all be frustrating, no one else is one out time schedule, so we need some patience with the processes. Hugs.
Hey BG Paul, I LOVE Capricciosa Pizza too. I prefer traditional pizza toppings BUT I love the "new" style of CHEESY CRUST, yum!
I LOVED Pizza Hut's thin pastry but not so much from the other restaurants.
We often have leftovers and thin doesn't heat up nicely, nooo.
My chickens LOVE leftover dried up Pizza lol... throw any leftovers our way.
I know we have a sombre week coming up due to Honouring our Queen. I'd like to respect the Guidelines for this thread in the Cafe and yet not dismiss people having a difficult time, as Paul does too I'm sure.
So if you're having trouble managing this week or ANY time, please reach out to us on our other threads.
The BB Helpline is always there to support us too.
What's everyone up to this weekend?
I'm about to feed the chooks, take kids to and from work all day and night lol.
Am planning lots of SELF CARE this weekend, please pop over to the thread of that name to share how you're caring for yourself today.
Love and caring
EMxxxx
