TrashCan: Errr... Missus Moogsmum?

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, 21 August 2008

Errr... Missus Moogsmum?

I have to say I think your Team GB is whupping our tanned and toned Australian butt (note I say a collective 'our', not mine?).

And I'm good with that massive British haul of gold. It will set y'all up nicely for 2012. And heaven knows the country will need some positive boost to offset the moaning the media will (have) share from Sunday on.

So tell me..... did you want fabric or yarn?

9 comments:

our shabby cottage said...: MMMmm.... I think I might have to eat my words too Trashy!!! I didn't realise that Team GB had had so much money invested in them. I guess it will all help for London won't it? Kathryn.; 22 August 2008 1:01 am
sharon said...: And to think we moved to Australia almost ten years ago simply for their Olympic medal-winning ability...! How wrong were we? I was only saying to DH last night that the Brits had probably won more medals in this Olympics than in the previous 4 combined.; 22 August 2008 4:15 am
Gina said...: I thought of you last night as those medal tables flashed up on the news! Like you say - it will be good for 2012 though.; 22 August 2008 8:29 am
wonderwoman said...: its not over yet! but i think we did good this time and its nice to wake up to good news for a change!
should have put a bet on!!!!; 22 August 2008 9:03 am
silverpebble said...: I was too much of a cynical old grump to join in but now I find myself smiling when I see the medal league tables, and getting rather excited at the cycling etc.

I did hear something quite funny the other day though - most of the GB medals are for 'sitting down' sports. Nice cup of tea anyone? A biscuit?; 22 August 2008 9:20 am
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: I'm amazed at how well GB has done - I really thought Lesley would be sending you a parcel not the other way round!; 22 August 2008 12:33 pm
Tara@From Dawn Till Rusk said...: I could have wet my pants (sorry) when I saw how well team GB did in the Olympic medal table. You're right, we're never NEVER up that high normally, so bloody hooray for little ole us - it's about time we had something to cheer about!; 24 August 2008 10:50 pm
Lesley said...: I wasn't ignoring this post - I was incommunicado in Cornwall...watching the Olympics in a state of shock as the GB medal haul just grew and grew!
After week one I was getting ready to go fabric shopping!

So we beat you by a whole medal...and how we are going to gloat about our sporting prowess for the next four years!!

As I said in my email my dear Mrs T - I'll let you choose the prize :)

xxxxx; 25 August 2008 9:19 am
alice c said...: Ha! I enjoyed the whole Olympic extravaganza SO much more when I knew that there would have to be grovelling down at Trash Manor.; 29 August 2008 6:27 pm