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(The not-so-secret diary of life and stuff in a hilltop town)
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.
All fantastic D's!!! Your little cherubs (oops, that's a "c") are adorable and those last two pictures make me very, very jealous that I don't live where you do!
Oooh, it's a bit like Sesame Street, this. This post was brought to you by the letter 'D'. I can't wait to see what things beginning with X make you happy.
oof i cannot for the life of me think of anything funny which starts with "D"!!! MOST non-triumphant! of course, now that it's 3 letters too late i've got,
"AWESOME ANTIPODEAN ARTISTIC ANTICS"!!! will that do ya for now?!?!
ps re relative difficulty of fabic vs paper crafts: you are FLIPPIN' BONKERS, missus!!! sewing is waaaaaaaaaaay harder...tho admittedly somewhat more gratifying to have a useful, durable, 3-dimensional item at the end. but still!!! yikes!!!
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that is all just delightful!!! thank you again for my beautiful fleurs and bracelet!
xxxx
Trying to think of things beginning with 'D' but not doing so well.
Lovely photos of daft dogs and delightful daughter and destructoboy :)
xxxx
All fantastic D's!!! Your little cherubs (oops, that's a "c") are adorable and those last two pictures make me very, very jealous that I don't live where you do!
love it all!!!
Divine! There is an award-et for you over at my place! xx
How delightful that your dog likes to slide. Smiles in the morning.
Oooh, it's a bit like Sesame Street, this. This post was brought to you by the letter 'D'. I can't wait to see what things beginning with X make you happy.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with for 'K' and 'Q' ... this game could be a good training ground for Scrabble.
Lovely pictures, and I very much like the idea.
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oof i cannot for the life of me think of anything funny which starts with "D"!!! MOST non-triumphant! of course, now that it's 3 letters too late i've got,
"AWESOME ANTIPODEAN ARTISTIC ANTICS"!!! will that do ya for now?!?!
ps re relative difficulty of fabic vs paper crafts: you are FLIPPIN' BONKERS, missus!!! sewing is waaaaaaaaaaay harder...tho admittedly somewhat more gratifying to have a useful, durable, 3-dimensional item at the end. but still!!! yikes!!!
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