TrashCan: Nine More Sleeps!

Trash Towers Dictionary

a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.

BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.

Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.

bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.

blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'

eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.

feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!

ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.

lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.

La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!

lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.

OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.

Q.I. - Quite interesting.

terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .

TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).

TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.

Friday, 12 October 2007

Nine More Sleeps!

Only nine more sleeps until Sylv arrives here in Engerland! Confirmed with her this morning about arrival times - 07:15 which means an 05:30 departure from Trash Towers. CK said that I obviously wouldn't be taking Princess Curly-Wurly and Babyman as it was so early. I asked whether he would like to explain to the Grandmother who hasn't seen them in two years why her grandbabies weren't there to meet her. Or to tell said grandchildren they couldn't take their handmade posters to the airport for Granma. I think he got the message.

Have just got back from a night out with the girls to watch the Grumpy Old Women Roadshow. I love Dilly Keane! The other two were Britt Eklund and Denise Roberts but Dilly Keane was far and away the funniest and the best. Loving a night out with friends but some people really are hard going! The friend of a friend was talking about how old 'Twiggy' looked and when told it was Britt Eklund said 'Well, she looks better in those Marks & Spencers ads'! I swear all the peroxide has eaten away at her brain.

Lists

I'm thinking I may have to have a list. So many times throughout the day I have ideas or think thoughts or hear stuff that I want to put on this page but it's all gone when come to actually doing any writing. So I think I may have to do a list to keep track of stuff. Hmmmm,, I shall think in this further.......

1 comment:

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: But would you remember where the list was????? Lucy x; 12 October 2007 8:32 pm