TrashCan: Just so you all know ...

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.

Sunday, 8 November 2009

Just so you all know ...

... the winners of the £90 million lottery draw on Friday?

Neither of them is me.

18 comments:

Katy said...: me neither. Dammit.; 8 November 2009 8:17 PM
quinn said...: Well...are you sure?; 8 November 2009 8:32 PM
Mary said...: Do you do what I do and secretly dream about how you would spend the money?

I know exactly what I would do...; 8 November 2009 8:49 PM
Moogsmum said...: Now that's a coincidence 'cos it's not me either!

Moogs xxx; 8 November 2009 8:55 PM
Daisie said...: Nor me :-); 8 November 2009 9:45 PM
dottycookie said...: Nor me. Oh, wait, was I supposed to buy a ticket or something?; 8 November 2009 10:06 PM
CurlyPops said...: Oh crap!; 8 November 2009 10:52 PM
Thimbleanna said...: You're hysterical! I was pulling for you though!; 9 November 2009 12:57 AM
Jo in TAS said...: I'm sure you must be related to one of them!; 9 November 2009 2:50 AM
Cathy (Tinniegirl) said...: I think this post should have been titled Bugger.; 9 November 2009 10:42 AM
wonderwoman said...: not me either!!!

xx; 9 November 2009 10:42 AM
lauren said...: oof. then i'd best cancel that customized ferrari order i made using your credit card. bummer. NOW what will i get our boyfriend for xmas??! :); 9 November 2009 2:36 PM
a nutt said...: I never play the lottery, but it must be very fun to try...because every week you can fantasize about winning - and that's VERY exciting!!! I think I might be missing out.; 9 November 2009 7:00 PM
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Wasn't me either - so unfair!

Locket xx; 9 November 2009 9:42 PM
Joanne said...: hahahahahahha it was me ;-)

Wadda ya want?; 10 November 2009 1:20 AM
julie said...: yep, life's not fair - if it was you'd have been a winner and thrown us all a big party with free yarn for everyone (bring your own needles)!; 10 November 2009 9:55 AM
Michaela said...: It wasn't me. And it wasn't Mr Stressy either. I know that because he's still stressy and the maid hasn't turned up to wash the pots.; 10 November 2009 7:13 PM
Wife to the Rockstar said...: Maybe next time.; 18 November 2009 2:45 AM