Navigating Melbourne without tripping over a pop-up shop is near impossible. Anything from Taco’s to Danish furniture. The eldest Knuffle Kid is in on the action now. Saturday morning involved building and decorating a shop, then curating a collection. The curious items for sale included a homemade cardboard-mobile phone ($4), an eraser ($5) and wind-up tin toys (inspiration for an early Knuffle Kid range). Permission to sell assumed. At least they were priced at $6. For about 4 hours she sat out the front, scanning the street for customers. A dog-walking couple idled by, an adorable local eccentric power-walked past with a brief look-in, and a few older school girls wandered past. Yep, 5 people over 3 hours. As the sun set, and the cold evening well advanced, she had to nearly be dragged inside. At dinner – with one sale under the belt and 50c in hand – she eyed off a few bags of lemons brought over from her aunty’s place. “Mum, can I have those lemons?”. So next weekend, if you’re in the ‘hood and need some lemons…
Or just play a few cardboard arcade games.
Caine’s Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo.
You know that wholesome feeling in getting kids involved in growing veggies? That’s what I went for this weekend. There’s a real satisfaction in planting snow peas that they’ll see sprout, climb and eventually be able to eat straight from the vine. Out came the potting mix and it was a mad scramble for buckets of water, spades, dirt, digging and turns in placing seeds in the pots.
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 
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 
WAREHOUSE SALE
The herd of goats around here a little bit excited to be doing a warehouse sale with Lark and Down to the Wood!
Who wouldn’t be really… Have you seen the gorgeous things that these guys sell?
If not head over to their web sites and get excited.
Lark
Down to the Woods
XX Nanny Goat
