TrashCan: blogtober Day 14 (for just another 14 minutes)

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, 14 October 2009

blogtober Day 14 (for just another 14 minutes)

have you ever gone back and read through old blogposts?

A very interesting way of spending five minutes.

Just random dipping and delving.

Sometimes funny.

Sometimes cringemaking.

And sometimes a little bit sad.

But like any diary ...

... fascinating to the author.

(reviewing last Winter showed many posts about Australia and puppies but NONE of the fabulous snow we had! Figure have now rectified that.)

6 comments:

so NOT cool said...: Winter is 100%, hands down, no-doubt-about-it my absolute favorite season. I love the snow AND the cold. :)

Thanks so much for joining the photo challenge at The Women's Colony. I'm looking so forward to seeing everyone's photos on Monday. :) Oh, and thank you also for the very kind comment.; 15 October 2009 1:23 am
Working Mom Knits said...: Wait just a cotton pickin' minute! You had SNOW last winter? Who'd a thought it?; 15 October 2009 4:01 am
Moogsmum said...: Ooh - let's just hope we get another dose of the white stuff this year! Gorgeous photos Trashy :)

xxx; 15 October 2009 8:02 am
a nutt said...: Today in OCTOBER...we are having December temperatures...awesome. I am fine with the cold, but I hate driving in the snow or cleaning it up...dreading that part. If I could stay home all day and snuggle and drink tea..perfect Snow Day! I don't know how kids do it!; 15 October 2009 1:28 pm
silverpebble said...: Sledging and snow angels can hardly be beaten. Joyous pics Trash x; 15 October 2009 3:11 pm
Joanne said...: a fun way to spend a few minutes - rifling through memories - and pictures.
Man o man you sure had some snow ;-); 15 October 2009 8:05 pm