TrashCan: 100 ways to drive a tutor crrrrrrrrrazy! Part One

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.

Thursday, 8 November 2007

100 ways to drive a tutor crrrrrrrrrazy! Part One

Primarily the thing is to not do what they want.

That would definitely have to make it into my top ten.

Yesterday Mum and I had a playing day at the very fabulous fabric warehouse just down the road from here. Weeks before her plane even landed I had booked us in for this day of making, mocking and mayhem. Being a not unreasonable kind of daughter (unlike that other one!) I even gave her a choice - 'Christmas in a bag', making four different sized quilted bags from Christmas fabric or a silk/velvet scarf. Completely of her own volition we ended up doing the scarf.

The woman in charge - let's call her Jenny - was about 752 and passionate about the beautiful velvets and silks she had brought along. However she was also very bossy in the most passive/aggressive kind of way. And me not following the pattern she had identified for us. Strips equal on both side, I didn't really do it that way! I liked the idea of going light to dark. See what you think!

3 comments:

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Light to dark best deffo! So what happened next?????

Word verif today is "wacik dnj" - wot's that sposed to mean then?; 8 November 2007 10:47 pm
Monkee Maker said...: Go you and your anarchic breaking of the rules!!; 9 November 2007 6:30 pm
Kitty said...: Hi there ... just spent a happy while perusing your blog whilst I munched on breakfast. Hope you don't mind if I bookmark and come back again?

Keep up the good work :-); 10 November 2007 8:48 am