TrashCan: I confess here and now....

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, 12 June 2008

I confess here and now....

.... I am a SITSer and I have laughed much since hanging out with my new SITSers.

Over at The Secret Is In The Sauce there is a rather triffic competition going on with a prize by this very clever lady and (b/c it really is all about me) I think I should win!

Waddya reckon?

6 comments:

Shannon said...: thanks for entering and good luck!; 12 June 2008 4:57 pm
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Sounds like fun! Lucy x; 12 June 2008 6:12 pm
scargosun said...: SITS is an excellent place to hang out. They are wonderful over there.; 12 June 2008 6:57 pm
Lesley said...: Can't wait to see the 'new you' when you win! Thanks for introducing me to the SITSers - I'll be keeping an eye on them :)

xxxx; 12 June 2008 7:16 pm
Mama's Losin' It said...: I'm proud to call you my SITSer. ;) I think a lot of people are excited about that prize...I didn't enter the contest because I won a prize in another contest and got my blog re-did. It's so much fun! I hope you get a chance!!; 13 June 2008 9:52 pm
Rhea said...: Congrats on winning the roll call this week on SITS!!; 16 June 2008 1:07 am