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The BB cafe

Kazzl
Blue Voices Member
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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

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. 

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ecomama
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Hey everyone reading in the Cafe today! 

It was SO HOT here yesterday and today it was SO ICY cold and the winds! WOAH. 

It was FUN! 

 

I'll play Foo Fighters Kitty! Up really loud! 
Saw them in Concert, A MAZE ING. Wasn't too fond of being in the MOSH PIT at my age back then even but I LOVED it lol! 

 

I could bring my poodle but he's a maniac lol. He hates anyone or anything being anywhere near any of us! 
He barely tolerates US talking with each other at home lol. 

I'm sure the MAGIC of the Cafe would make him amiable to ragdoll kitties lol. 

 

I'm off to have dinner, which is Thai food - no surprises there lol. 
Then hit the hay. 
Wednesdays are usually my longest hours at work, so I'm getting a good nights' sleep in tonight. 

 

Still feeling GREAT! Everyone's doing well at mine. I'm SO grateful! 

Love EMxxxx

mmMekitty
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Hi EM. Really loud Foo Fighters, eh? Looks like I'll have to wear my earmuffs on my bad ear as well as my good one!

[LRC places forepaws over ears].

[LRC walks on hind legs to staff room & open the filing cabinet & hastily plucks finds a custom-made set of earmuffs filed under "LRC's Safety Plan"]

[Grinning LRC], LRC returns to the main dining/lounging room.

All set now, EM. Bring on the Foo Fighters!

ecomama
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Lol, the Foo Fighters are incredible. With the magic of the BB Cafe, all our music choices can be playing AT THE SAME TIME! Isn't that amazing? 

 

YAY! I saw we're up to 1984!!! WOOOHOOO! 

 

Did anyone else have to study the novel "1984" BEFORE 1984? 
Ughhh I did. I didn't like it at all. 
But all these boys in my English class thought it was great. 
Horses for courses I guess lol!! 

Speaking of HORSES. Did any one else realise that YESTERDAY the short date was 1.11.22 and it there was a horse race on I took no notice of lol.... but who else remembers that silly poem..... 

 

One one was a racehorse
Two two was one two
One one won one race one day 
And two two won one too! 

 

Can you see how FUNNY that is? 
And the correlation of the date with the hose race AND the horse race poem? 

 

What's on the Menu tonight peeps? 
Leftovers at ours so don't look this way for any ideas! lol. 

 

How was your day today? 
Love EMxxxx

Paw Prints
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Valued Contributor

Hello everyone...

 

Oh I remember that rhyme Em... & yes we did Orwell's 1984 at school... I must confess I enjoyed it & have read it again since then... 

 

Now where is that LRC hiding... someone has been teaching Woofa to have ideas above his station... he decided last night he was a music critic... he was beside me on the couch... I started singing along to a song... he gave me "the look" then moved away to his bed... I may not be able to sing in tune... but he never noticed before... I suspect a LRC has been up to mischief again.

 

hugs all

Paws

 

 

 

ecomama
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Valued Contributor

Lol Confession received Paws and you are absolved lol! 

You'd probably get along well with those boys I went to school with lol! One's an Aeronautical Engineer after being a Fighter Pilot in the Air Force. 

 

But I love you too! 

 

YAY 1984! 

 

I reckon we'll hit the target of PAGE 2022 by NYE 2022... 

 

Still nothing for dinner hey? 
I had a mango lol. A good balance since I attended a Conference AND besides my healthy food I couldn't eat completely, I ALWAYS had room for the rubbish junk food at the Conference lol. 
I called those treats SELF-CARE lol! 

 

Won't do it next time though. 

 

Is anyone planning something FUN coming up soon? 

Love EMxxxx

I'm so thrilled my custom-made earmuffs not only filter out sounds I don't want to hear but can give me sounds I like. I'd rather listen to some of the musicians competing in the Young Australian of the Year Awards. Or the Boyer Lectures, or some jazz to get me moving, with the music, not away from it.

That's a great invention, EM.

...Paws, [LRC looking sweet & maybe just a tad sheepish] (a fine trick for LRC), being a cat & all. LRC says, "It's not me teaching Woofa how to critique voices of others - it's my penguin entourage, singing as well as they do, providing Woofa with some very high quality singing to compare your voice to... [LRC rapidly dashes out of reach of Paws]... believe me. I wouldn't never teach Woofa to be naughty or disrespectful."

I forget how I first came across '1984'. It may have been radio or film, or maybe my father had the book... I like it, even though I didn't get everything Orwell was writing about. Later, hearing it again as an audiobook, I understand more, & more after listening again.

Leftovers can be great - get you being creative & inventive & maybe discover some new food combinations you might not have thought would go well together. Like, corn relish & parsley, & cheese, of-course. I already like parsley & cheese. I was making a sandwich , & still have some corn relish to use up, & decided the sandwich needed a little something moist. I was a happy LRC!

 

 

mmMekitty
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Valued Contributor

Ah, quiet night tonight, in the BB Cafe... I seem to have the place all to myself.

I could play whatever music I like, push the furniture out to the edges & (with my skates on), skate all around the place, with no worries about bumping into anyone! 

Yeah, hot jazz for this cool cat ...or shout out, "All strays are welcome!" [LRC Twirls & waves to passersby] "Please, I don't mind if you would like a chat, a late supper, or to enjoy a litle swing-time jazz - I'm in the mood"!

mmMekitty

 

melhun79
Community Member

I’m here too!! It is quiet in here. Maybe some John Farnham playing would be nice. Australian icon. Munching on some sweet potato chips yummo

mmMekitty
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Hello Melhun,

Lovely to meet you here. How was your day today/yesterday? (timezone)

I was wishing I had a bath to soak in - my legs are so sore from the exercise I did on an elliptical trainer, & my back is sore from a massage I had. I feel like she brused me all down my spine. I had a hot show, which helped a while, but tonight I can barely stand up! (hence the skates)

It's getting a little cool tonight, but quite alright. [LRC (Little Red Cat), purrs, curled on top of the pool table]

I admit I'm only familiar with John Farnham's most popular songs, heard on radio & tele. So sad about the illness & surgery he had to have. Made me wonder if he'd ever sing again. I hope so.

Sadly, it's getting late, so, please don't mind me if I just drift off to sleep... [LRC yawns & rests head on upper chest, paws kneading the baize.] See you in the morning? I'm a muesli & fruit sort of cat these days - being healthy & all. What's breakfast for you? ...Give me something to dream about...

mmMekitty

 

ecomama
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

Hey melhun, a big huge WELCOME to the forums and it's GREAT seeing you hanging out in the Cafe with us all. 

 

Thankyou for joining in! 

BREAKFAST MENU - all calorie free! 
BIG FAT Croissants. 
Scones with jam and cream. 
Juicy mangoes. 

Chai lattes. 

 

Over to you peeps to add to the menu. 

 

I have to ask, does everyone LOVE my sparkly blue nail polish on my TOES? 
I know you all noticed them lol but you were too shy to say something. 

 

I chose the sparkly blue to match the OCEAN we will be swimming in on Sunday! Eeek still a bit chilly but we're going with the Tony Robbins thang of jumping in cold water every morning. 
I had a cool shower this morning and thought (afterwards) yeah I LOVE this feeling. 

 

What are you looking forward to? I'm looking forward to feeling the sand between my toes on the beach. Yah. 

 

Love EM!