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.









Wednesday, 18 March 2009

The cup is always full, some days you just have to squint a bit.

Have you ever noticed that sometimes life happens when you are least anticipating it?




Horrible things happen to nice people. Age creeps up and alters irreparably those around us.




However the presence of the bad should be tempered by the presence of the good. Those who are injured regain control and capability. Plastic cones of humiliation are removed so that freedom becomes unrestricted.




People pick themselves up and declare 'I shall make it on my own'.




Life continues to move forward and every day starting bright and fresh is a blessing from the gods for all to enjoy.

12 comments:

Jodie said...

Amen!!
Your followers will be flocking to your side with those words of wisdom trashy...

Michelle said...

So true. Sometimes I think that people get so absorbed in the bad stuff that is happening to them, they can't see the good stuff that is also happening, or the way through the smoke bombs to see the light.

I'm not criticising them - I've been there myself, and often it's only once you accidentally trip to the "other side" after a bad bout of crapness that you can see the bad state you got yourself into.

I love this post. I very well may link to it, if only because I get tired of people considering my optimism as a personal attack on their right to feel down-in-the-dumps. It's not. They can feel down in the dumps if they want, but they shouldn't expect me to join them there! I'll be too busy trying to lift them out of it from where I am.

Blue Mountains Mary said...

Thanks Trasha - I think you know what this means to me..

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...

Very well said Trash! Locket xxx

P.S.Hope this doesn't mean that cr*p has been happening to you? If it has, have a HUGE hug from me xxxx

silverpebble said...

Wow, this has hit a huge nail on it's head for me.

The lead news item this morning has brought home how lucky our family is to still have my sister. The sun is shining and we're moving on.

Hope there's not too much adversity at your end, or if there is, then there's a way through. Thanks for this post.

Emma x

Kitty said...

I second the motion. With knobs on. Some days it's quite hard to see the good bits, but other days there they are, looking you in the eyeballs.

Lovely post. Thank you. x

dottycookie said...

I shall save this to look at when I next have a PLOM (poor little old me) day.

Dionne said...

Cheers!

wonderwoman said...

way to go - a very uplifting post!

xxx

FruteJuce said...

Very nice post. Thanks.

quinn said...

I hope this means your dog is feeling better?

Moogsmum said...

I needed this. Thank you.

loads of love xxx