TrashCan: Help for Haiti (or Second Ever Trash Raffle)

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.

Friday, 15 January 2010

Help for Haiti (or Second Ever Trash Raffle)

The devastation is so great, the politics so twisted, the situation so desperate.

Every single penny, dime and cent offered to a charity dealing with this horror counts.

Please donate what you can to whichever charity you prefer - Medecins Sans Frontieres, Oxfam, Red Cross & DEC. Choose a charity, an organisation or an individual. Donate through Amazon, Paypal or go into your nearest bank or Post Office. Virtual money transfer or hard cold cash. It will all be used to help someone.

Then come back here and let me know. Send me a receipt from your donation to trashalou@googlemail.com and I will enter you into the Second Ever Trash Raffle.

I have three bundles of Amy Butler patterns donated and signed by Ms Butler. The raffle is open to everyone, just go and donate then come back here or email me and let me know.

7 comments:

Michaela said...: £10 duly donated. Will send a raffle prize from the Stash basket too.; 16 January 2010 3:49 pm
Moogsmum said...: Have donated £15. I'll also send a raffle prize. Will get it sorted asap.

Grand job, Trashy.

xxx; 16 January 2010 8:32 pm
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Well done Trashy! Another brilliant fund-raising raffle. Have donated £5 to Oxfam so far and plan more to Medicin Sans Frontiers imminently.

Locket xx; 17 January 2010 11:06 am
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Just given another £10 to Oxfam (because they have Paypal). L x; 17 January 2010 9:43 pm
Mama said...: A bit late to the party BUT:
$10 donated to Medicines for Humanity and $10 donated via paypal directly to a nun-ped surgeon who is currently in Haiti (as of Saturday).

Also, offering a skein of Woolmise - will email a pic to you and then post to the winner from here if that's okay :); 19 January 2010 6:16 pm
Chris said...: I have donated £10 so far
C x; 20 January 2010 2:17 pm
lauren said...: i ♥ you missus trash, have i mentioned that lately?! you are not just an amazing artist and a wonderful mother, you are a truly GOOD PERSON!!!

inspired by your example i have just sent $20 to the red cross, but to the american chapter b/c i suspect the CC companies charge them conversion fees & so forth.

♥♥♥; 28 January 2010 2:53 pm