do anything!
(The not-so-secret diary of life and stuff in a hilltop town)
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, 22 December 2007
Ta Dah!!!!
And now for my 75th post I give you ........
my profile picture!
Seriously that is how long it has taken me to figure it all out.
Ah well, you can't be beautiful and clever I always say!
Great photo! As our trip to the in-laws has been delayed by a day I'm enjoying having time to lurk!!! Just wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :) Lesley xx
awwwww maaaannnn! i was gonna say, "wow, you are MUCH younger than i realized" but, sadly, i was late and kitty has beaten me to it. and since i forgot to pack my emergency joke, i don't even have a backup. dang. i'll have to owe ya one, ok?! :)
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Great photo!
As our trip to the in-laws has been delayed by a day I'm enjoying having time to lurk!!!
Just wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :)
Lesley xx
If that's you, you're a lot younger than I'd thought. Also, you look astonishingly like your daughter :-p
Take care :-) x
Happy christmas.
Love the profile photo. What moisturiser do you use?
Merry Christmas :)
awwwww maaaannnn! i was gonna say, "wow, you are MUCH younger than i realized" but, sadly, i was late and kitty has beaten me to it. and since i forgot to pack my emergency joke, i don't even have a backup. dang. i'll have to owe ya one, ok?! :)
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