TrashCan: Bugger.

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.

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Bugger.

Have just finished and sewn up the lovely kidsilk haze hat for my girl. a beautiful slouch beret kind of thing. In a mid level blue. With cream stripes. Pretty, pretty, pretty.

It doesn't fit.

The band is too tight so I have opened it up.

The body of the hat is so mahoosive I think there may be enough room for all seven of us.

I am so pissed.

13 comments:

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Pah! I know what you mean! My one (recent) attempt at a beret was totally pants. Bleurgh. Probably just going to have to unpick it and I don't DO unpicking. But at least I'm now thanking my lucky stars that I didn't use Kidsilk Haze for it! Pesky thin sticky knotty stuff!!!

Locket xxx; 7 November 2009 9:11 pm
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: P.S my word verification was "uncelia" - do you think Celia is a knitting goddess who'd never have a problem with her beret?; 7 November 2009 9:11 pm
willywagtail said...: O dear. That would drive you mad. And there really is nothing you can learnfrom something like this except never to sew again and that is not worth learning. Cherrie; 7 November 2009 9:41 pm
Frogdancer said...: "Totally pants". Ha ha. I have no idea what it means but it sounds funny.

Anyway, enough about previous commenters and back to you.

Um... I've forgotten what i was going to say. Something sympathetic about projects that go wrong and are perfectly pants. (Hahahaha. 'pants'... can't get it out of my head.) (sorry); 7 November 2009 10:09 pm
Daisie said...: It just wasn't meant to be, frog the whole thing and turn it into something wonderful.
xxx; 7 November 2009 10:11 pm
Jodie said...: I am confused...kniting sewing pants frogging...

Hide it in the bottom of the UFO pile and never speak of it again -or impale it on a knitting needle and leave it in plain sight to scare all the other projects.; 7 November 2009 10:33 pm
peskypixies said...: bugga bugga bugga..
dont you hate that!!!!

hugs; 7 November 2009 11:29 pm
Joanne said...: mmm, give it a name.... 'hat thing' springs to mind... show it to all your friends and laugh hysterically at it!

Just a suggestion ;-); 8 November 2009 6:25 am
Moogsmum said...: Eurgh - I just hate it when that happens! Is it froggable?

Have I just invented a new word?

Moogs xxx; 8 November 2009 1:30 pm
silverpebble said...: Oh balls (of wool you understand).; 8 November 2009 2:53 pm
wonderwoman said...: that such a shame and it was looking sooo good too!

xx; 8 November 2009 6:03 pm
Gina said...: bugger... pants... frog... nothing more to add really!; 8 November 2009 7:06 pm
lauren said...: DUDE! *anyone* can knit a HAT...you've cheaply & efficiently solved the homeless crisis just as winter is setting in, AND given a boon to the international yarn industry.

(but yeah...booger...sorry...) ♥; 9 November 2009 2:34 pm