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]

Anytime, Em26,

Everyone & anyone is always welcome, & the BB Cafe never closes, not even for public holidays, (only for brief periods for maintenance, & even then, you can still see the posts).

Hugzies everyone

mmMekitty

[Patches63]

Hi everyone, my first time here. It’s late and really should get my 2 fur babies (my 2 cats) to bed.  
just stopping in briefly for quick hot chocolate tonight.

everyone is so welcoming, looking forward to dropping in another day soon when I’ve got more time

[Emotions26]

Hello G grand, Moonstruck,Sbella02, Patches63, MmmeeeKitty (yes I am still playing with your name) and all others

Are there any hot baked potatoes from the campfire left. I am hungry. Chocolat dark preferably would be most welcomed. Did someone mention damper apparently is so simple to make have eaten some cooked on a campfire before and alas no I have not made any.

I too used to live further out on land where there were no street lights. The stars at night spread across the sky in a circular movement of the head. Outstanding experience. I can still see some stars but there is more development now and with that comes street lighting which is needed. I used to go camping though in the ranges and wow. We used to not light a campfire for a while just to take in the stars. That was such a beautiful way to take time out from this world. Eric Clapton Dire Straits a definite yes.   Around a campfire anyone picking up a guitar or an harmonica is heaven. Anyone singing Hmm within reason I suppose laugh.

Lovely to share the company   Em

[Patches63]

Morning everyone, I’ve popped some raisin bread on the bench, love my raisin bread for brekkie.

I’ve always lived in suburbia, have some great memories though of trips away with my parents pre teen years.  Sleeping in tents under the stars, beside rivers, mum cooking meals over open fire …. so much fun. Thanks heaps guys for reminding me of those days.  Remember staying at one of my dads uncles in the country …. high ceilings, very wide verandah around all walls, 10mins car trip into the town.  I slept in same room as 2 of my older cousins, remember being woken by sound of a cow over my head and my 2cousins laughing at their young (I was about 10) city cousin waking in semi fright due to the sound.

Im a country girl by heart with parents or grandparents having been born and lived in country areas.  Clydesdales …. my favourite horses. In his early 20’s my grandfather was one of a team of mean who brought team of Clydesdales to local show grounds during which one night there was a thunderstorm.  Being unable to fully settle the horses my grandfather sleep in passage way outside the 6 Clydesdales.  Think I inherited his love of them and lack of fear of any land animal.

Better go and feed the felines, thanks for the company

[Patches63]

Next week is 1st anniversary of me retiring from work. Thinking of shouting myself to local cinema.  Anyone seen the latest Harrison Ford movie in the Indiana Jones series?

[Ggrand]

Hello Everyone,

Dear Patches, I love the Indiana series, I will have to wait until it comes to DVD or TV, going to a cinema on my own is something that I doubt I’ll ever do….Avatar 2 is another one I’m waiting on….

A big congratulations on your upcoming anniversary…Are you liking retirement?…

Dinner tonight for those who want some, is thin bacon strips, fried egg, slice of aged cheese, wrapped up in a flat bread thingy…they use as wraps…your choice of sauces…hmmm not so healthy but so good😂..

I went camping a couple of times when I was very young, with a group called “The young pioneers”…but I wasn’t a big fan of it, I imagined all sorts of creepy crawlies walking all over me…which kept me awake all night😂…No aroguard back then…(.that I can remember)..

I remember again when I was very young, A man coming to our house with a huge horse..possibly Clydesdale or a draught horse pulling a cart, full of big blocks of ice, my mum used to buy the ice and the man would put it in a steel box we had in the wall…I think that was our fridge…..Wow now I remember that I’m thinking how old I really am….Time never stands still..

Have a great night everyone..

🤗Grandy.

[mmMekitty]

Hello Grandy, Patches, Em26, everyone

Thanks, Patches, I, LRC (Little Red Cat) am happy to be fed anything, anytime. [LRC Grins expectantly]

Just to encourage some healthy eating, I, (mmMekitty) had brought some Greek-style salad. I don't care for the onions, (only because they are not fried), so you can have extra onion in yours.

& I am going to sing, good, bad or indifferently, I am going to sing. "Star shining bright above you... "

LRC will be purring in a lap, trying them all for a while before deciding on which is the most comfortable, or until discovering who has the treats ...

[LRC with a poker face]

Yes, LRC, I'm onto you; I know you so well!

 Sorry, I can't help with movies.

I'd love to put my feet up & listen to the sounds of nature around me, so long as it isna't growling... purring, absolutely, birds chirping, indeed, yes, & frogs, & small animals going about their business, & even insects, to some extent. I like the hear leaves rustling, twigs snapping, gentle rain dripping, as well.

mmMekitty

[Emotions26]

Hello Patches G Grand Little red cat. Also anyone reading. 
That is the great things about campfires you can sit and beyond self in silence. Gazing into the flickering flames. Watching the wisps of smoke. Moving around the circle to avoid the smoke as it follows you just as you settle still coughing. The light breeze changes direction again. All part of the fun. Memories flood back and dreams find us. Keep on singing Mitty me  I have brought my potato cheese and mushrooms with some hommus to share. The drips of rain dribble off our hats down our faces. Joy. 

[Emotions26]

My reply disappeared Perhaps it will be here tomorrow 

[mmMekitty]

EM26, I think your reply has arrived. Sometimes it takes a few minutes. or just going to another page & coming back to see it has arrived. 

Yes, indeed, it did seem as if the smoke follows us around to wherever we sit. Yet, somehow, everyone seems to get smoke in their faces.

When I was maybe 11, my sis & I had built a tee-pee in the side yard & we were allowed to sleep there overnight. When we woke it was my sis who made poridge & tea for us. It was the best tea I've ever tasted. 

I'm not a big tea drinker, but hers was very special - no other tea can match her tea.

Thanks for the midnight snack.

Hugzies

mmMekitty