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. 

[On The Road]

Hi Doberman, hope you enjoy this Autumn 🙂

Hi Mekitty, is your helper a talkative or an observant person? 😺 usually when I went out with others, they noticed something I didn't notice, but when I went out alone I was observant.

[mmMekitty]

Hi On the Road,

Both my helpers will talk a lot, given half a chance. My home helper is more sensitive to when I don't feel much like talking,& happily go on ith her work. My otherhelper, who I go out with, will talk your ear off. I am so much better talkiking with her now, though for me, it takes a long time to feel at ease. She could notice more, & sometimes does. It is usually something she or her hubby might like, though.

It's my shopping trip, so I'd like her to tell me more about what is around us. I'd like her to focus more on what I might be interested in when she is there as my helper. I can't do that casual browsing & spot interesting things, anymore. 😼So, she does sometimes mentions things she knows I am trying to not be tempted to buy...like chips & Lindt chocolate...I know it's nearly Easter, but I'd rather spend that money on real egg, not b'unnyeggs'!

mmMekitty

[geoff]

Hello Paw Prints, they do a wonderful job, but the two algae eaters were doing this, but both suddenly passed away?

I believe you can feed them some vegetables, chicken or meat, and now have to get a couple more.

Thanks.

Geoff.

[Ggrand]

Happy Easter 🐣..everyone...

Wishing you all a beautiful calm and peaceful day..

I hid some chocolate Easter eggs around the cafe and it’s gorgeous gardens....Easter egg hunt ...has begun..

Good luck and enjoy searching for them...

What coloured wrapping will you find....and what’s the flavour of your egg?..

I found a brown and green specked wrapped egg...which has a coffee liqueur chocolate egg inside....Hmm I don’t think it will last very long....maybe I’ll have it for breakfast😂😂...

Hope everyone enjoys today..

Grandy...🐣🕊🌱🍫🍯

[Paw Prints]

Happy Easter Grandy & everyone...

After much searching by Woofa & I... we succeeded in finding a very special roast beef egg for him that was wrapped in crispy bacon... & I found a little basket of tiny eggs each one wrapped in a different colour & filled with lemon fizzy sherbert...

I have left a small mountain of Hot Cross buns beside the toaster & some freshly churned butter to go with them...

Paws

[mmMekitty]

See mmMine! Purple with the little golden yellow fishes, a creamy mousse, in mmMarshmallow, with lemony bubbles & of-course, bony little fishes!! So big, too, it'll last me from now through all of tomorrow!

But that doesn't mean there is no room for a hot cross bun or two... & some real boiled eggs, dyed with food colouring.

Anyone want to try this little game my father taught us?

Get a breakfast bowl...

Add water to half way...

Add a few drops of food colouring...

Add a half tablespoon of vegetable oil...

Stir to break up the oil into small spots of oile ..

Get a toothpick..

Dip the toopick into an oile spot...

Drag it to join with another oil spot...

Keep joining until you have joined them all up!

That'll keep you busy while I look for more Easter Eggs. 😹

[Croix]

Sounds like the 'stews' I had at school -yuck!
-C

[mmMekitty]

Surely, back in your day, they would've been dropping lard into the pot. mot anything so healthy as vegetable oil?

I can imagine it getting cold,& little floating bergs of lard forming on top! Oh, YUCK, indeed! 😾😼Poor Croix! Have some of mmMINE Easter Egg...😺

[Croix]

Thank you, fish flavored chocolate - or vice versa - has to be better.

I'll always remeber school meals - which were to be avoided if possible. Actually the only equal to 'stew' was 'raspberry tart'. This consisted of huge flat pans with a grey pastry squares lining, thinly covered in a combination of beetroot and sugar beet masquerading as raspberry jam

This did have a hidden advantage, when allowed to harden (which only took a couple of minutes) it developed aerodynamic properties which made it ideal to be propelled using a ruler at the target of one's choice.

A question of turning adversity to advantage.

-C

[mmMekitty]

I reckon! & it taught you a certain kind of resilience, too, I bet - not that I'd be recommending this sort of behaviour, nor the school culture from whence it had sprung & sprouted such strapping lads as you... Goodness, no, we don't want more 'Croixs' in the world!!!

💨😹