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(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.
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Have just found this on Flikr
This is the cathhedral in Melbourne where my parents got married 48 and a half years ago. I wish I could paste the picture in because it is so beautiful but please do click on the link.
Wow. That is marvelous! I bet a wedding would just be breathtaking in that place. Thanks for stopping by yesterday on my sits feature day. I appreciated your comments.
7 comments:
Lovely picture of St Pat's.... I know that place well.... used to live quite close to there.
That is really, really beautiful!
And, no. You cannot use it as an additional entry to pad your chances of winning Lauren's contest!
What a beautiful picture of a stunning place. x
Wow! What an impressive place! Lucy
Wow. That is marvelous! I bet a wedding would just be breathtaking in that place. Thanks for stopping by yesterday on my sits feature day. I appreciated your comments.
Spookily and for reasons I cannot remember I was only looking at that very photo a little time ago.
What are they doing for the 50th?
What a gorgeous church to get married in!
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