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, 3 January 2010

We set extremely low ambitions for these holidays ....

.... unfortunately we fell short of achieving them.

These past two weeks have been among the most slothful I can remember spending. Ever.

Grandad's Christmas present after my assistant's exploration.
I was more energetic in the weeks after birthin' babies than I have been over this Christmas.
our seasonal lttle village
I have discovered a new skill or two in this time, been delighted with thoughtful gifts from family new friends and old.
tablerunner I am in love with and adore


sweet Christmas star from Casey Random

But now the decorations are packed away, the last of the holiday fare has been consumed and it is time to return to a more normal operating schedule.
Wish us luck!

6 comments:

Mary said...

It seems to me the whole blogging universe spent the last two weeks slothfully.

I know I did!

Moogsmum said...

We've had a pretty slothful time too and I've realised I'm not a natural born sloth - unless I'm left entirely alone to knit, of course.

Love your tablerunner. I hope you get to keep it on the table all year - far too lovely to put away.

xxx

a nutt said...

Happy New Year! Yes, this back to reality thing...stinks something fierce.

silverpebble said...

Bleeuuughhh. I am moving too slowly to comment really, due to mince pie torpor, but Trash, can you explain why there's a giant Christmas cake on top of one of your tiny Christmas roofs/rooves? Did the tiny tiny baker have a fit of pique? Did his lady run off with the gym intructor? Still, the tiny tiny robins will have snackage galore. Which is nice.

wonderwoman said...

i know what you mean - soo much washing to do!!!! - let alone cleaning!!! and sooo much sewing/knitting i want to do!!

xxx

lauren said...

i do think SLOTH is the least appreciated...and in many ways, most useful...of the deadly sins. sure, the glamorous big ticket sins get all the attention, like those show-offy LUST & GREED fellas...but those require so darned much *effort*! (and in the case of LUST, probably some fancy undergarments) whereas dear old SLOTH is such an approachable, come-as-you-are sin. gotta like that. :)