TrashCan: The reality

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.

Friday, 18 July 2008

The reality

Let me just say that The Black Dog, despite all appearances, has never bitten anyone.

He isn't that brave.

Yesterday afternoon while we had no rain Babyman was out in the garden practising to take Nadal's crown.

After taking 5027 pictures of this tennis ace using the sport setting (loving that 3 shots per second thing) I thought I would see how it worked with colour and movement.

First thing - get the hound's attention.

Throw the toy.

Stand back.

Await good dog returning toy.

9 comments:

wonderwoman said...: loving the pics - tell budding tennis ace to keep practicing, tennis stars earn a fortune and you are never too young to start!
x; 18 July 2008 8:02 pm
Genevieve said...: love the action shots.; 18 July 2008 8:53 pm
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: What a fab picture of Babyman - I'll have to see if our not-very-techno camera has a similar photo function.; 18 July 2008 9:56 pm
Lesley said...: Great action shots. Nadal needs to watch his back - Babyman looks very determined!

Your vicious dog looks just like our stinky old Moog when h's playing :)

xxx; 18 July 2008 11:07 pm
Annie said...: Love the movement shots - it takes a lot to get a good one doesn't it!
With those "dishies" I meant to get a shot with ALL her "dishies" stacked up, but my mum keeps sneaking into her house and doing them for her while she's out. Wish she'd come to my place!; 18 July 2008 11:19 pm
Gina said...: Great action shots - I knew that black dog was just a great big softie!
Nadal obviously better watch out - babyman looks like a pro!; 19 July 2008 10:02 am
Kitty said...: That action shot of babyman is fantastic. And the dog looks much more of a pussycat in these shots than on the last post!

x; 19 July 2008 6:18 pm
silverpebble said...: Fantastic pictures of babyman's skills and doggy action too. Your dog's eyes are amazing - does he have X-ray vision/laser skills for fending off cybermen?; 20 July 2008 10:34 pm
Leanne said...: great action shots...he looks a much nicer dog playing with his toy.; 23 July 2008 11:23 am