TrashCan: Will UPDATE

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.

Monday, 30 June 2008

Will UPDATE

Spoke Dad del Will tonight.

As a surprise for their two girls the dada didn't tell them that when they got home from school this afternoon Mama and Baby Will would be sitting in the sofa waiting for massive hellos, smiles and cuddles!

So a millionty twelve thank yous to all in the blogoverse who sent positive thoughts out into the ether, he is home and hopefully will just keep getting bigger and better from here on out.

On a somewhat related note I need YOUR help.

I bought a knitting magazine sometime in the Winter and it had a pattern for prem cardigans. Having successfully knitted one I verrrrry carefully hid the pattern from myself and now my friend has asked for just such a thing to keep our boy warm. In complete good friend mode (who can resist a trip to the bestest ever shop in the world?) I bought some indigo and flax Sublime soya cotton to make a stripey cardi but have NO IDEA where iIhave extremely safely put the @*&$%% pattern.

Here's the bit where you come in - does anyone have a simple stocking stitch cardi pattern for prem babies? Please would you be so kind as to share it with me?

Thanks again blogoverse :-)

11 comments:

Gina said...: Wonderful news about Will. Sorry I can't be of help with a pattern but someone out there must have one!; 1 July 2008 8:15 am
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Ditto!

Great news about Will - the girls must have been so delighted to have their mummy and baby brother home!

But sorry, no pattern I'm afraid! Good luck with that!

Locket xx; 1 July 2008 10:23 am
Katy said...: whoo!!! I'm so happy about Will.

Can't help you re the cardi though. Soz. Although...overmilkwood, she's knitted a rather lovely kimono baby cardi before (but don't ask me whether it was stocking stitch or not, I have no idea!). Go hunt her down www.overmilkwood.blogspot.com; 1 July 2008 10:46 am
AnnieB said...: 'twas garter...which is even easier than stocking stitch...

will keep my eyes peeled tricia and if I find anything else will pass it on...

glad your baby is home!; 1 July 2008 2:16 pm
AnnieB said...: sorry...maybe a bit dense...might not be your baby but your friends...anyway, am glad baby is where he should be, with his mama!; 1 July 2008 2:18 pm
Genevieve said...: glad baby Will is home!

I'm also no help re pattern, but have you done a ravelry search? (are you on ravelry? if no I can do the search for you, just let me know!); 1 July 2008 2:45 pm
Kitty said...: So pleased Will is home with his family - that's wonderful news.

I don't have a pattern either, but could you maybe use a doll's pattern? Or size down a 'regular' baby's cardigan pattern?

Sorry - I'm not much help, am I? :-(

x; 1 July 2008 6:10 pm
wonderwoman said...: brill news about will - how fantastic for them all! will see if i can find a pattern for you and will let you know as soon as poss!

loved the pics of your great weekend!

am so excited about your swap - you can tell its my first!

see you soon; 1 July 2008 6:37 pm
Leanne said...: It's so refreshing ...someone else who puts things away so well that they may never be seen again. LOL
Can't help with the pattern sorry.; 2 July 2008 11:35 am
Working Mom Knits said...: darling dula - you can go the Ravelry patterns" page and do a search : )

ps: I've a contest going - please join the fun!; 2 July 2008 12:09 pm
wonderwoman said...: hiya - for premmie patterns have a look at central knitting patterns.com they have quite a few patterns - just typed in knitting patterns and up they came - hope this helps

x; 2 July 2008 6:07 pm