do anything!
(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.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Is it time to come home yet?
Returned from tropics to Sylv's house at 0200 hrs Monday morning. Not sure I can maintain pace for next 10 days. Someone will scrape the puddle that is me into an envelope and post me home. Won't they?
OH! How slow am I?! Only just realised you are in my neck of the woods! I see from your other post you are going to Sew It Together... Would love to say hello :-)
its blooming freezing here, so i think you are definitely in a much better place!!!!! and what a weekend you have coming up, not that i'm jealous or anything like that, ooo no!!!!!lol!!!
Oh dear - bet you're looking forward to getting back home and having nothing to do other than mothering, laundry, cooking, dog walking, housework etc etc...
Take your vitamins and drink plenty of water and you'll be fine!
p.s. you picked the wrong time to go away, by the way, we're having another little blast of winter - complete with frosts and snow in some parts AND you've missed THE MOST fun with all the wonderful post-election goings on.....
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OH! How slow am I?! Only just realised you are in my neck of the woods!
I see from your other post you are going to Sew It Together... Would love to say hello :-)
its blooming freezing here, so i think you are definitely in a much better place!!!!! and what a weekend you have coming up, not that i'm jealous or anything like that, ooo no!!!!!lol!!!
xx
Looking forward to meeting you at Sew It Together!
Dude. You are being out done by your MOTHER? Sort of sad.
But I love you nonetheless :)
ps: someone sent an Aussie dictionary to my office; I am becoming proficient.
Oh dear - bet you're looking forward to getting back home and having nothing to do other than mothering, laundry, cooking, dog walking, housework etc etc...
Take your vitamins and drink plenty of water and you'll be fine!
:o)
xxx
p.s. you picked the wrong time to go away, by the way, we're having another little blast of winter - complete with frosts and snow in some parts AND you've missed THE MOST fun with all the wonderful post-election goings on.....
it was worth it though ....right?
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