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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.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Two questions.
1. After washing HOW does one get all the crinkles, wrinkles, dips and ditches out of heavy linen?
2. Say one were having a birthday party, how would one go about decorating a local Guild Hall in a hilltop town?
On cotton setting and the items to be ironed should be slightly damp. My mum would have the linen out on the line to dry, if it got fully dry before she brought it in, she would slightly dampen it with a spray bottle, then wrap it in plastic and iron it the next day. It is possible to iron dry linen with a steam iron, but it takes much more hard work.
Hope this helps you, even though I had to swear (iron)
Am loving the idea of a maid. Do you think I am likely to get one for my birthday if I ask nicely?
I did iron it on the hottest setting (with steam off) when it was wet from the machine but the linen is really thick and it was taking five minutes to iron dry a five inch square so I have left it to dry on the heater. Please tell me I have not made a crucial error that will leave me sobbing over a buggered piece of cloth!
My answers to both questions are leave it to the last minute and hope your mother-in-law will do it. However, I've never had much success with this myself so I'd say:
1. What Eve said and whatever you do don't dry it on the heater!
2. LOADS of balloons, bubble machine, dry ice, chocolate fountain, bunting (made from crumpled linen is always a good look) - can you tell I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about?
Borrow Artic camouflage netting from your local Territorial army and turn the Guildhall into a WinterWonderland. Then you can pretend to be in Narnia and indulge your passion for Turkish Delight.
Failing the maid, send the linen to the dry cleaners. As for decorating... hundreds of balloons that the children blow up for you, although I like Moogsmum's suggestion of bunting made from heavy linen.
i particularly like Moogsmum's comments - especially the choc fountain! and i still say you should get 'the boyos' to help with ideas as for that linen....save it for the next time mum comes over ;-)
When I read the post I was going to say; 1: iron it wet. 2. Delegate. But I'd just go with Jenny's suggestion, think there maybe an upturn in the use of domestic help after that! xxx
13 comments:
I can answer question 1.
You use an iron ;-)
On cotton setting and the items to be ironed should be slightly damp. My mum would have the linen out on the line to dry, if it got fully dry before she brought it in, she would slightly dampen it with a spray bottle, then wrap it in plastic and iron it the next day.
It is possible to iron dry linen with a steam iron, but it takes much more hard work.
Hope this helps you, even though I had to swear (iron)
1; Get the maid to do it
2; Get the maid to do it with balloons.
xxxxxxx
I love Jennyflower's suggestions! Where can I get me one of those maids?
Are we celebrating a significant birthday???
I agree with Eve regarding the linen. As for decorating, I'm SO clueless.
i love jennyflower's suggestions - i would sooo love a maid - as for the other, say twinkly lights and bunting?
xxx
Am loving the idea of a maid. Do you think I am likely to get one for my birthday if I ask nicely?
I did iron it on the hottest setting (with steam off) when it was wet from the machine but the linen is really thick and it was taking five minutes to iron dry a five inch square so I have left it to dry on the heater. Please tell me I have not made a crucial error that will leave me sobbing over a buggered piece of cloth!
My answers to both questions are leave it to the last minute and hope your mother-in-law will do it.
However, I've never had much success with this myself so I'd say:
1. What Eve said and whatever you do don't dry it on the heater!
2. LOADS of balloons, bubble machine, dry ice, chocolate fountain, bunting (made from crumpled linen is always a good look) - can you tell I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about?
xxx
p.s. liking how you just dropped 'local Guild Hall' into that sentence - nice work :)
Borrow Artic camouflage netting from your local Territorial army and turn the Guildhall into a WinterWonderland. Then you can pretend to be in Narnia and indulge your passion for Turkish Delight.
Failing the maid, send the linen to the dry cleaners. As for decorating... hundreds of balloons that the children blow up for you, although I like Moogsmum's suggestion of bunting made from heavy linen.
i particularly like Moogsmum's comments - especially the choc fountain! and i still say you should get 'the boyos' to help with ideas
as for that linen....save it for the next time mum comes over ;-)
When I read the post I was going to say;
1: iron it wet.
2. Delegate.
But I'd just go with Jenny's suggestion, think there maybe an upturn in the use of domestic help after that!
xxx
LOL everybody seems to be favoring the maid thing - - should I raise my hand and add myself to the vote too? :-)
Ironing - yes I think damping the cloth will help, or use fabric softener when you wash it - they say it helps smooth wrinkles a bit :-)
Wishing you and your family a blessed New Year!
Mizpah,
Li
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