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, 18 December 2007

My husband's love is a different kind of thing.

After the childers' evening play performance they stopped off at Y.O.T.'s * for a celebratory pudding run and came home with gifts for the Lubbard Mummy**.







There is nothing CK likes more than buying flowers for me. It is his special thing to walk into a supermarket (yes it usually is a supermarket b/c petrol stations just don't do the really good things!) and find a bunch of beautiful blooms (alliteration anyone?).







His best and his favourite is when he stands in front of the banks of blossom at Mr. Y.O.T.'s house and spies a shiny pretty in the corner of the wrapper.







Would you like a closer look?








I can't begin to tell you how pleased he was with this purchase (although apparently they were from Princess Curly-Wurly). And knowing the joy he gets from these pretty yellow stickers makes me think the flowers are even lovelier!

Do you think this makes us weird?



*Yucky Old Tesco's


** (BabyMan could not say Mother Beloved when he was little; not that I make my kids call me fabulous names or anything.)

6 comments:

Monkee Maker said...

Y.O.T indeed, but wow! what a floral bargain!!

And I should make your kids call you fabulous names while you still can .... soon enough they'll be coming up with not-so-lovely monikers of their own choosing!

Kitty said...

I'm not surprised he was pleased with himself - 99 pence for those is fantastic!

I might try that Mother Beloved thing ... I'll let you know how it goes :-D x

Lesley said...

What a fantastically romantic bargain! Good old YOT ;)
xx

Yummers! said...

I read your 'spider venom' comment and laughed so hard. I had to come visit to see what your blog was all about. You certainly didn't disappoint me with your post today about your husband and his flowers. Sooooooo adorable!! You've hooked me... I'm yours from this day forward... for ever and ever. Probably longer than you wanted??? hee, hee
Joni

lauren said...

the fact that *I* actually don't think that story makes y'all weird...

(au contraire...i find bargain flowers to be exponentially MORE romantic! no, seriously: a man who is thoughtful AND fiscally responsible??! PHWOOOOAAAR!!!)

...probably suggests that it does, a bit! sorry, i did MEAN to help, honestly! :)

Lesley said...

Re: Your comment on my blog - half an elephant???
Happy Christmas.
love Lesley xx