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.









Wednesday, 21 November 2007

Slowly, slowly.

Over the past ten days I have been blog-hopping and rolling around the innernets. I have even added words to the post I have been constructing (it seems very unwieldy now I stand back and look).



However, with eleven hundred memebers of family descending and a hacking cough which the doctor just smiled and nodded through as my lungs landed on his desk, I have not really had the focus to write coherently (what I said about unwieldy!).



I am hoping that normal service will be resumed at some point in the next week. Until then here are some pics.

















3 comments:

Patti said...

Love the pictures.

Hope you survive the family. I'm off to make a loooong to do list so I can cope with my family (and hubbies) next week.

Kitty said...

Love the pictures - that wrought iron 'sign' is fantastic.

Hope you and your lungs feel better soon. Take care :-) x

Lesley said...

Great pictures! Is the bridge at Stowe? If not there's one there too!
Hope the family visit goes well and that your poorly lungs are better soon.
xxx