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, 20 March 2008

Mother's Pride (no, not the bread).



I don't know if any of you remember this at all but it is due in tomorrow. Yes, 11 weeks of school work has to be handed over tomorrow for lots of non-assessment and marking by the teachers (they have two in Pr.C-Dub's class)over the Easter break. And I am absolutely chuffed to bits with the effort she has put in to getting this work done.



I have helped her find information and organise it but she has had to understand it. At every point she has had to explain to me the words on the page. And now at the very final hour we are left with one finished river project of 14 pages long with an appendix and a cd of her fictional trip along the river.


This is suprememly exciting b/c her first project this year consisted of three pictures and four facts about endangered monkeys pulled off the internet the morning of handing in! You see, she forgot to share with us for SEVEN weeks that she had homework!!



I know they won't actually grade this mammoth effort and perhaps that is right but I also know she gets A* for effort and possibly a jolly well placed B+/A- for her work.

You see - Mother's Pride (beam, beam)

3 comments:

Kitty said...

Way to go Princess C-W! She obviously enjoyed the project, and it always shows in the end result doesn't it? I hope they'll give it back to you so you can keep it and enjoy it for years to come?

x

Lesley said...

Wow - great job Princess CW!!! No wonder you have such a proud Mum :)

Good job there on supporting but not interfering Mrs Trash :)

xxx

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...

That project looks great and Princess CW will love having spent time with you doing it. Dorothy loves doing projects (and often sets them for herself - she's such a boffin!) I hope the teachers appreciate it P.C.W's hard work!

Lucy x

P.S. Today's word verif is Qamipyea - sounds like a very exotic river to me!