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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, 11 March 2009

rEd NOsE DaY raFfLE

My very lovely friend Missus Stashbasket has used her wondrous skills of crafting and loveliness to make this stunning blanket.

Want it?

Can't have it because it is mine and you may not win it.

But if you give some money to the very lovely people collecting for Red Nose Day and then go and tell Missus Stashbasket how much she will pretend to give you that number of tickets.

Only pretend mind because the blanket is actually mine so don't go liking it too much ;-)

But hurry because these pretend tickets you are buying will only be available until Saturday 14th.

5 comments:

Working Mom Knits said...: YOU are the pretender girlie - that blankie has been MINE since it was first posted!!!!; 12 March 2009 2:06 am
Moogsmum said...: You poor deluded woman - you and WMK, in fact. Mrs Stash Basket knows that the blanket is to be mine when she's done her pretend draw :-)

When I win it, I may invite you round for tea so's you can admire it!

How's those dogs doing?

xxx; 12 March 2009 3:05 pm
wonderwoman said...: i hate to disappoint you all girls, but its MINE! Its soo gorgeous!

xxx; 12 March 2009 6:21 pm
Di said...: What a great blanket! Must pop over and visit!; 13 March 2009 8:14 am
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Stooooopid, stooopid girl! It's MINE!

Locket xx; 13 March 2009 6:51 pm