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.
15 comments:
or some crazy still life sculptural piece ?
I confess to having jeans hanging on my line that were frozen solid. It amused me too much to bring them in to thaw!
I'm a bit slow on the uptake... had to stare for a minute before I realised what was going on... hee hee!
Made me laugh out loud and choke on my toast, thanks! :-)
hmmm. Some folk aren't too bright up there on your hilltop town, are they?
Brilliant! Locket xxx
now, that's funny!
and i did just need a chuckle.
thank you :)
You tend to make me laugh in the morning but this picture is priceless!! Thanks for sharing.
HAHAHAHA! That's awesome! Thanks for the VBG!
that's priceless!!!
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That's great... it's as if they designed it just to be seen from up the hill....lots of white that'll blend in with the snow and then one splash of red.
I'm with Gina here - I love hanging washing out when it's freezing cold. Watching the steam shoot up from it when you first peg it out then seeing it turn solid. Handknit socks are the best - you can hold them horizontally. And as as stoopid as it may sound, it does actually freeze dry a bit!
First I looked in shock at the size of the back yard - what on earth does anyone do with that little tiny bit of land?? Ohh wait - hang out washing..vbg. Perhaps they thought that when the clothes came inside they wouldn't have to iron them. You have made my day.
Ha! I bet they were so frozen solid they walked into the house on their own!!
My Mum always used to hang the washing out on cold and frosty days. I tend not to!
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??????? They're kidding aren't they?? LOL
Hugs,
Joy :o)
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