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.









Thursday, 27 May 2010

No really, just like a photoshoot.

Getting there.
As children we used to call these the Devil's marbles.
Honeycomb.
From their own hives.
Something beautiful on the walls.
The side verandah.
Looking down the drive.
Just hanging around.
Sylv grape harvesting in the garden.
My cousin quince-harvesting nearby.

Looking toward the back verandah.
This year's bumper harvest.
Built with timber from an old building on the property.
Back verandah.

8 comments:

quinn said...

Lovely photogs, Trash! All of them. I especially like the look of the reused boards - I am always trying to use old bits and pieces to make new things, usually sheds, so I take a keen interest. Those boards look like they are STITCHED together! Are they?? At last, a use for my leftover sock yarn??

The shot of all the boots and work coats - and fire gear - is brilliant.

Nice work :)

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...

Fab photos Trashy! L x

wonderwoman said...

lovely pics - gives us a taste of your visit.
xxx

Mary said...

A beautiful home captured beautifully..

Jodie said...

That last shot trash - is exactly what our back verandah looked like as a kid - its a beautiful photo.

CurlyPops said...

Looks like paradise to me...

Susan L (lily40au) said...

this looks so peaceful and relaxing ... exactly like a home.

lauren said...

QUINCE harvesting??!?!? yes indeed. you are definitely winning in both quality of photos... (holy moly they are indeed LOVELY if i haven't mentioned this before...and i am particularly impressed with your gorgeous and seemingly effortless photo COLLAGE boards...which every time i assay turn into HUGE amounts of work and cursing!!!!!!!!!) ...and perfection/rareness of subject. WOW! ♥♥♥