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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.

Saturday, 3 November 2007

Babyman got creative last term at school.

Cardiff was great fun. Mum and I didn't even get very lost at all! Given our current track record I am v. pleased that we only stopped one person to ask for directions. And even then we were headed in the right direction already!

CK set a budget of £5.00 which would be halved if we didn't leave the house by 8am. It is amazing how much £2.50 sterling can buy in Wales!

We mooched around to begin with, getting the feel of the place for a bit. Some nice Welsh women with a book of miniquilts yelled at us b/c we breathed on it. So we kept moving. Then Granma found Princess C-W's birthday present - a 21st century spirograph type thing. Pictures to follow after 22/11. Guess what? There was a pick'n'mix glitter stall, I got a bag of peacock blue and one of acid green. Yes, just two. Limited budget you know!

So by now I had £2.29 left and 900 more stalls to look at. Passing quickly yet fascinatedly past the knitted gingerbread house (no really - walls, roof, furniture and everything!) we saw the clever lady extolling the virtues and cleverness of fimo polymer clay. Kept going.

Walked through a most amazing embroidery and patchwork display of work done by the W.I. since 1924 and it was interesting to contrast it with the outstanding sewing and design work done by some local GCSE students.

The whole class got creative.

Also got very brave and bought some Regia self-patterning wool to do some gloves. Am extremely tired and headed for bed now.

Night y'all!

2 comments:

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Glad you had a good time - even if you did encounter the "nice" lady! Lucy x; 4 November 2007 2:23 pm
lauren said...: a pick-n-mix gliter stall?!!! and you only bought 2??! good golly, you are a woman of rare restraint!

can't wait to see the "21st century spirograph"...i'm keenly anticipating the ways in which it will surpass the 20th century version: is it java enabled? does it draw fractals?! has it got a 40g hard-drive & utilize nanotechnology??! can't wait to find out! (if it's teabag-powered, you might like to speak to VC...apparently she has one or two extra at the moment...) :); 5 November 2007 10:49 pm