TrashCan: The first rule of Knitting Club.

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, 7 October 2009

The first rule of Knitting Club.

We do not talk about Knitting Club.

Eight Yr. Twos and Threes.

Three grown-ups.

Three weeks of intense concentration.

And every girl

has knitting

completely under control.

(oops! I have never been very good at following rules ;-)

**Please note this Blogtoberfest Day Eight post is brought to you early courtesy of my delightful trip out tomorrow with my friend Maria to Ally Pally so we can fondle all the glorious yarn at The Knitting and Stitches Show.**

7 comments:

Creative Beast said...: hello!
i'm participating in Blogtoberfest and stopped for a visit.

OMG & LOL!! love, love LOVE your dictionary! it was great to see 'feck' and 'eejit' as i am familiar with these terms here in the USA.

also love the Fight Club reference; this is the 2nd blog i've visited thus far to have a Fight Club reference and i LOVE that movie =-)

sorry to see what happened with the favorite dish =-(; 8 October 2009 12:43 am
dottycookie said...: Yay for Knitting Club! There isn'tg one at our school. Maybe I should volunteer. Hmmmm.; 8 October 2009 6:43 am
Gina said...: Knitting club is a brilliant idea. Have a fab day out at Ally Pally.; 8 October 2009 8:13 am
Liesl (Hoppo Bumpo) said...: I thought what happened at Knitting Club was supposed to stay at Knitting Club. Ah never mind ... the pictures are great.; 8 October 2009 2:14 pm
Carin said...: Can I come to knitting club? I am a total loser when knitting is involved. Those girls are doing so much better then I ever have!; 8 October 2009 3:41 pm
Kitty said...: Oh wow - great idea. Those girls will all be thanking you in years to come. Have a great day at Ally Pally. x; 8 October 2009 4:23 pm
lauren said...: how cool is this idea?!?!? very NEARLY as cool as the great pics you've taken...which give said girls their privacy and yet show the lovely knitting and the concentration on those sweet faces!

(PS: has ed norton and/or brad pitt signed for the film yet??! just wonderin'...) ;); 13 October 2009 10:46 pm