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.









Monday, 13 July 2009

Wooohooo!** Edited**

Have just had a phonecall from my N.V.Q. Assessor/Supervisor/Person to say

"Congratulations, your N.V.Q. Level Three was successful."

Yay me!
**EDIT**
Having momentarily lapsed in remembering my jetset status I forgot to translate from British to Foreign. I shall endeavour to do so now. My default is set to Australian so if anything falls between the cracks for anyone just comment and I shall clarify where possible.
Otherwise I shall just make it up!
An N.V.Q. is a National Vocational Qualification and a Level Three is equal to two 'A levels' in a particular subject. 'A levels' are equal to the old-fashioned HSC, Matric or final year of Secondary education. They can be achieved in a million different subjects including but by no means limited to hairdressing, engineering and care. (hello, this is the voice of reason. There are actually just over 1300 different NVQs to choose from. Thank you.) This does not mean you should ever let me near your hair with a pair of scissors. Regardless of how much I beg.

20 comments:

dottycookie said...

Well done you!

Frogdancer said...

Ummmmm...

sounds like good news (whatever it means....)

Congratulations!

Tillyboo said...

Well done Mrs ! Good for you ...
Catch up soon and may the sun shine down on you xx

our shabby cottage said...

Fantastic - well done Trash!

Suse said...

Congratulations! Did you wear the hypothetical open toed shoes?

April said...

well done you!

April xx

Stomper Girl said...

Wooooooooooooooo! Go you Trashalou. Am I the only one who doesn't know what your NVQ is for? I gather it isn't hair-dressing...

Daisie said...

Many congrats, well done etc etc!!
xxx

Samsara said...

Congratulations!

Mary said...

Congratulations - I think this means that exciting new adventures loom for you!

flossyblossy said...

Huge congrats!!!!

julie said...

well done Trash!

Michaela said...

Well done you oh clever one! And thanks very much, but I had my hair cut yesterday.

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...

Well done Trashy! But what's it in????

Locket xxx

Moogsmum said...

Well done - you're now a fully qualified car mechanic!!

Handy for your snazzy new Chelsea Chariot ;)

xxx

p.s. tried to text you some hypothetical good luck this morning but my phone decided to play silly bu**ers. Hope the hypothetical whateveritwas went well :)

wonderwoman said...

thats fantastic - well done you!!!

xx

quiltygal said...

Congratulations and you can cut my hair anytime in fact I'll book in for Oct 2010 ok ?? don't worry it always looks as if rats have been chewing it its the look I like!!

silverpebble said...

Many congrats on the mystery NVQ. Do tell us what it's for though!

Emma
x

mythoughtsmyvoice said...

Congratulations! Which specialty did you choose? I've been only aware of NVQ for healthcare, didn't know it was actually for different fields :-)

lauren said...

WAHEY!!! go, you, indeed! ♥♥♥

(ps: lemme know when watchin' doctor who and bein' a wiseacre qualify for NVQ...cause i'm TOTALLY over qualified!!!!!!!!)