I really like these two lanes, AC/DC Lane and Duckboard Place, they’re not the most vibrant or beautiful but they usually have some nice treasures and are well worth the visit. We’ll check in from time to time to see the changes, new additions and older favourites.

On this particular trip our friends pointed out a few nearby lanes they have scouted for their August wedding photos :) Final decisions won’t be made until the last minute, you can never tell what the backdrop will be like on any given day.

It was a nice night, slowly slowly getting through my Paulie cardigan – I plan to make a second, striped one, as soon as my nice plain grey Paulie is complete :)

This is beautiful! Three years of the sun in three minutes.

How fantastic are these jumpers/sweatshirts?!! I have a soft spot for the wallpaper floral design, but I’m also having fantasies of wearing the cupcakes to the gym! (… not that I go to the gym, but you know, maybe stand outside on the street like in that Simpsons bit.)

John has a not-so-secret love of gummybears, specifically these ones.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was an occasion such as a birthday that would warrant the purchase of a Gummybear sweatshirt? Oh wait, we have a birthday next month? :)

If I’m ever going to get some knits for me started I really need to knock off a few wips!

First up for this week is getting Chicane finished for John. It’s all seamed, the zipper purchased (doubting the colour now though… I think it needs to be darker), right now I’m knitting the ribbed neck and if all goes well I should have that finished and the front edges neatened by a crocheted edge by the end of the weekend.

Once the (possibly newly purchased on Monday) zipper is basted in I will have my first experience with sewing in a zipper to one of my handknits! I’ve never put a zipper in to a knitted item so I’m excited – if I can steek then this is a walk in the park :)

Then I’ll be right on to finishing Kiki’s Baby Sweater On Two Needles (February), I started this while I was still pregnant but stopped once I realised it was big enough for at least a 6 month old…. Well guess what? She’s 8 months old now and I still haven’t returned to it!

It’s lace. It’ll stretch :) The colour is gorgeous and the pattern is cute, I’m considering some sweet little pearl buttons and a matching hat in the left over Alpaca Silk Georgette (in Sprig, my most favourite yarn + colour! for projects for myself).

Less talking about it and more actually doing it! That’s been my motto for this past week – so far so good!

Have a happy weekend :)

I don’t know why, but I find instructional videos created from this point of view so strangely hypnotic, mesmerising! As mentioned before :)

21 Balançoires (21 Swings) from Daily Tous Les Jours on Vimeo.

21 Swings
Exercise in musical cooperation

Every spring, an interactive installation takes over a high-traffic area in Montréal’s Quartier des spectacles and sets a collective ritual. The installation offers a fresh look at the idea of cooperation, the notion that we can achieve more together than separately.

The result is a giant instrument made of 21 musical swings; each swing in motion triggers different notes, all the swings together compose a piece, but some sounds only emerge from cooperation.

The project stimulates ownership of the public space, bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds, and creating a place for playing and hanging out in the middle of the city centre.

A traveling version of the project is currently being made for these collective moments to spread around the world.

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I would be so excited to see this project! Fingers crossed it makes it’s way to Australia!

I know, every blogger and his dog has mentioned the wonderful animal photographs by Andrew Zuckerman! Even his website is stunning, and his book is on my wishlist. Take a few moments to look though some of his lesser known photographs.

How about we just pretend that I promised to blog everyday this month?

I know I know, where’s the commitment I ask myself while it takes me 10 minutes just to write this sentence – Kiki is an incredibly independent baby, but she’s still a baby and that means less time for Mummy to screw around on the internets (and apparently zero time for photo editing… a professional food photographer I am not!).

So we’re still plugging away at this Whole30 - I’ve said it before, we eat a generally “strict” Paleo diet as it is, it’s the junk food extras that start creeping in that we need to kick, and for that reason I’m starting to think that we would benefit from a 21 Day Sugar Detox instead… or actually in addition.

My plan! Spending the month of April getting us back on track with our food choices and eliminating the weekly processed sugar binge. Then May, oh May, that will be sugar detox time. It’s all good and well to omit processed sugars, but I’m most certainly abusing the moderate fruit intake limit of the Whole30… when a slice of red capsicum doesn’t taste very sweet to you, there’s something wrong with your palate!

Instead of copying the recipe here I’ll just link to it on the Jamie Oliver website, I made some changes even though it would be very nice as is. I used some leg of lamb, dicing it myself, tinned tomatoes instead of fresh and a few other changes including only marinating the lamb.

Tomorrow I’ll share the accidental chicken laab dish I made for tonights dinner… accidental? It was going to be thai chicken patties :)

I’m still feeling fine as we head toward the end of Day 4 of my Whole30… just wait though as we near the weekend! I’m sure to enter a “kill all the things” phase when I try to break my sugar. Not even necessarily crap processed chocolate, but also the habit of honey and maple syrup and “paelofied” desserts.

I have noticed that my tummy is feeling a little delicate, but I haven’t worked out whether that is from a slight sugar detoxification or completely unrelated.

On the menu tonight is lamb chops (again…) and an Indian inspired cauliflower, eggplant and tomato dish.

Yeah, sorry about the photo, nothing could make those veggies look attractive… good thing it was delicious! The veggies were cooked in tomato with a mix of ginger, turmeric, cumin, coriander and garam masala.