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You have no idea how happy this makes an old goat, hope to see you all there.
Our backyard is purpose-built to be filled with gorgeous, feathery, clucky chooks. I’ve been dropping hints to Billy Goat about how useful they are because they provide eggs and are fertilizing machines. Plus the kids were already in love with Florence and Myrtle – a couple of hens living at their cousin’s. Billy Goat was blind (or deaf) to my subtle hints, but finally figured that the kids might want pets when they wrote him a not-so-subtle letter. So with that we took a trip to the local animal shelter and selected a….rabbit. OK, the chook-convincing still needs work, but we’ve made progress on the pet front.
It didn’t take long to choose from the four that were available – one was white with red eyes, a temper, and totally freaked out the youngest knuffle kid. Peter Rabbit, however, was a chilled out creature that had been found in a park in the middle of the CBD. He happily hopped about while the paperwork was completed, and as a new name was negotiated and agreed. Tommy.
Tommy likes beetroot leaves, mint, and running under the house and into the front yard. There may not be any eggs, but there is plenty of fertilizer. And as for the chickens – well they’re compatible with rabbits – aren’t they?
xx Nanny Goat
Bike helmets became mandatory in Australia in the 80’s. The government of the time decided that getting Molly Meldrum to star in an ad wearing a stackhat would convince people that it was cool. Even Molly’s logic isn’t that warped. I’ve recently been coaching my daughter to ride, and she’s doing it with style. The most awesome helmets I’ve ever seen. Seriously, these better come in goat-size.
xx Nanny Goat
Knuffle Kid Pop-Up Shop
Post Industrial Design
638 Barkly Street,
West Footscray, VIC
(map)
Friday 10th Feb, 10:00 until 6:00
Saturday 11th February, 10:00 until 4:00
Cash and card accepted.
So pop over to the facebook event page and let us know that your coming.
Sorry it’s been so long. When was the last time? By the river at Easter many moons ago – a chestnut festival in a nearby country town. I even won the hay-bail stacking competition! You were good for me, and so were the summers building board-walks in the National Forests, getting to know the local Trackies and Rangers and their families. I moved cities, and there were so many other things to do. Then I craved a more stable environment for a while – the kids you see. They’re older now, not much, but enough that got me thinking about you again. I’ve been looking at tent catalogues, eyeing-off inflatible mattresses, even slipping into my sleeping bag on the odd occassion. I’m coming back, and this time I won’t leave it so long.
XX Nanny Goat
Refrigerator Gallery
Throughout the year the kids have brought home a bundle of paintings, drawings and pastings. The sheer volume would rival the basement collection of any commercial gallery. I love the ritual of rotating each one with whatever else is on the fridge, however there’s always that feeling of guilt about putting even one A5-size artwork out with the recycling.
So we try to reuse it as wrapping paper for birthday presents, which people seem to love. Still, the fridge and walls are covered top-to-bottom with paper of all sizes and colours. So I’ve decided to make a decent effort to declutter – if only to find the overdue bills on the fridge – before the onslaught of new artwork in February. There’s usually a favourite painting from the year, and by putting this in a frame (hello Ikea!) we’re able to hang it on the wall as if it was from a commercial gallery.
