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 Psychdiaries,

You are in luck. We have the biggest jukebox of all time, past present & future, so you are free to listen, sing & dance to whatever your favourite music is. No coins necessary, no searching through billions upon billions of tracks, just let your imagination take control!

Imagine: huge dance floor, mirror ball, spinning lights, & because it's all a daydream, you can have the music louder than my neighbours, which may take some effort ... whoa they have it loud! 

I generally don't, not just because it's not good for the ears, but because I can't sing that loud. Listen, I'll try ... "MeEeEoOoOw"

Yes, piercing, but not so loud. My purring is a different matter. It's like a machine producing low, low bass, thrumming with infra sounds rumbling right through the bones, shaking them up until they feel loose.

& my dancing ... I can leap & jump, twist & roll & land on my feet, like any other cat can. Indeed, that's my favourite dance - 'The Catcan".

Hmmmm, time for 🥛 my milk.

Hugzies,

mmMekitty

[smallwolf]

I'm curled up in a blanket in the corner.... been sick last few days 😞

[mmMekitty]

Hello Wolfie, so sorry to hear you are not feeling well. I'll turn down the music so you can get some rest. & I will get some old-fashioned, traditional chicken soup, with dumplings cooking on the stove, too. Nah, not that instant stuff - this soup takes time and a great deal of care to prepare. Just let me know if there is anything you would particularly like me to NOT put in the pot.

Yeah, just let us know if there is anything we can do to help you feel better.

(Nice, gentle) Hugzies,

mmMekitty

[mmMekitty]

Hello everyone,

Who's doing their Census tonight? I have because it dawned on me how little time we have to get it done without waiting for Tuesday night.

Now, I'm just the one of me in my home, & I found it was a little difficult to complete it all correctly, not least because I use a text-to-speech reader software & navigating using my keyboard. So I can imagine it's quite difficult if you have several people at home or wherever you are Tuesday night. 

Here I am now, wanting to relax & unwind a bit, with a hot chocolate with my famous mmMarshmallows & mmMellow mmMusic - something soft & rhythmic like purring waves... that's nice ...

How you doing Wolfie? I hope you are feeling better.

Hugzies,

mmMekitty

[mmMekitty]

Hey all, it's taken me a while today, just finding a very basic recipe for a cake I want to make. I remember the cake we'd made at school. It was a bit heavy, but I enjoyed it. It was so simple, with the basic ingredients of butter, flour, eggs & a little milk, Maybe we added a 'pinch' of salt. Maybe even vanilla - but I doubt that. My memory has no mention of it.

I remember having to measure out my ingredients the night before, so they were ready to take to school. & most vividly recall 'creaming' the butter & castor sugar.

Anyway, eventually I found a recipe I could adapt down to a single cake. & it had no corn flour, like I saw in several recipes.

So, after lunch, cleaning up from that, I went on to make my cake.

I don't recall how much I had to mix the sugar & butter, & how my arms worked! I also forgot I would have liked to sift the flour, too.... & my mixture seemed rather too thick to "pour into your baking tray". I had toadd a little more milk, then I spooned  it into muffin cups. I got some of the silicon ones. 

They have turned out pretty good. I'd like to share them with whatever you'd like to have with them.

Me, very messy, so I had some very crunchy bits to enjoy with mine.

I'll have some to have during my week of the 'special diet' (preparation for a couple medical procedures next week). I have to avoid so many of the foods I'd rather have as part of my healthy eating plan. For this week, starting tomorrow, I have to eat kind of opposite to that. Lucky there are still some foods I like in this week's meals.

When I can, I will make this recipe again, with wholemeal flour, & some other flavours & additions like nuts & seeds, maybe even fruit bits, though not too much. Firstly, I'd like to add banana. If I'd been certain about today's cake making, I'd have put some in today. Ripe bananas are allowed. s  

Hugzies,

mmMekitty