TrashCan: What an interesting day.

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.

Tuesday, 9 October 2007

What an interesting day.

Look what CK bought for me! No reason, just because (and yes of course they had a yellow sticker on them, that makes them look prettier apparently!).

Yesterday was quite an intersting day. I completed a repeat (44 rows) on my ISE5 scarf (still up for any ideas on how to get the button widget onto this page) and very pleased I am with it too. After much ripping out and many purchases of yarn I finally settled on some variegated alpaca in autumnal tones. Even this required much ripping back, tears and creative cursing, not to mention the hours spent untangling the skein in to one very large ball of wool, but after a discussion with my nice friends behind the counter of my nearest woolshop (even out here in the back of beyond we have cool shops but the High Street is invading)I have gone up a needle size. I think I'm loving it.

I also got through my invite to Ravelry. So now I'm there I don't actually know what to do but after some playing I'll figure it out. All though to be honest I feel a bit of a fraud being a part of it.

***** This was actually written on Wednesday. Don't know why it has come up as Tuesday.

1 comment:

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Flowers? Wow!!!
(even with the pretty yellow sticker); 11 October 2007 12:33 pm