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, 5 July 2010

100 things (Part 1)

1. I am crubbish at getting my haircut. I love having it done but never seems to happen more than two or three times a year.
2. I am a geek at heart. Unsurprisingly I was never in a cool gang at school.
3. My UK driver's licence says I was born in 'Warnambod', I think it is cool and have never corrected it.
4. I am probably too old to be using 'cool' in general speech. Even worse, I think it highlights my age. Oh Fonz you have a lot to answer for! Not that 'cool' is cool anymore anyway.
5. Discovered on Facebook the other day that a school friend and I have given our border collies the same name! Mrs Hunt was right apparently and we really ARE twins!
6. I haven't replied to most of the requests to befriend people from school on Facebook. Not that there have been that many (ref. #2).
7. I heart blogging. Fascinating people, places, pictures, stories, occasions and events.
8. Blogging and an internet highspeed connection are bad things and take up too much of my time. They really are far too compatible with my inherent laziness and apathy. I love it!
9. My deafness is wavering again. I really need to get my ears checked.
10. I taught myself to crochet when back in Australia in April. Now I know how I need never pick up the evil hook again.
11. Eddie Izzard, Top Gear, Michael McIntyre, Shappi Khorsandi make me laugh. (A little swearing involved on the Eddie Izzard link.)
12. If 'Gibbs' knocked on my door I wouldn't even wave CK goodbye.
13. I love my garden but I HATE gardening.
14. I haven't been to Scotland.
15. If I find the poles for my tent I WILL take my children camping at 'ScotFest2010'.
16. I find Peter White's voice even more irritating than Fi Glover's (BBC Radio 4).
17. I'm fine with bugs, insects and spiders but don't want to get too close to frogs, mice and other small creaures.
18 And birds.
19. I am a crubbish swimmer but love being in the water.
20. I have a different surname to my children.

16 comments:

sewjourn said...

Warnambod!!? And it was, ahem, 12 months between hair cuts for me last time.

Gina said...

Fascinating stuff... looking forward to the next eighty...

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...

Cool facts Trashy! Can't wait to read the next - which will hopefully include the fact that you go into Estate Agents in the middle of Islington to correct their grammar!! ;o) Locket xx

wonderwoman said...

just give me the scissors!!!!quite a list you've got going there!!!

xxx

word veri is 'poming' - well it made me smile!!!

Copper Patch said...

I found a split end with about 20 splits on it....that is a LOT of haircuts I haven't had!
Go to Scotland. Go on, go. It's...cool :o)

Joy said...

I don't get my hair cut very often either ... but that's cos I hate people fiddling with my hair.
Weird I know.
Hugs,
Joy :o)

Joanne said...

'cool' info there sister o mine, but i think number 18 was cheating! next time you better have 21 to make up for it ;-)
plus
i've never really understood you & the haircut thing....just make the appointment and go!!!!
xxx

Annie said...

Oh Trash, I'm picking myself up from the floor from laughing so much - I think you're "cool" and you would have been welcome in my group of "dags" at high school - and the drivers licence is just too much - cool cool cool! LOVE IT

CurlyPops said...

Warnambod! Ha ha now that one made me chuckle.

ange_moore said...

Wow - I think I can identify with at least half of the first 20 things about you! I'm getting a hair cut tonight - but I couldn't tell you the last time I had it cut (about 6 months ago?).

Stomper Girl said...

I love that you haven't corrected Warnambod. I also love using outdated words like cool, ace, grouse and dig. And like you, I think the blogging is fab but very detrimental to my getting on with the boring stuff, such as housework.

Mary said...

I never laugh as much as I do when I see Eddie Izzard

julie said...

It's fun getting to know you a little better. I'm with you on the haircut thing, there are just too many more interesting things to do with an hour!

Thimbleanna said...

Very fun -- and four more to come too!

Now, you must enlighten us non-UK/Aussies what Warnambod is? And never been to Scotland? Oh dear -- if I were as close as you are, I fear I'd be running up there all too much!

marit said...

Hey, have you been reading my mind or something??? 1,2,4,6,7,8,12,13,14,17,18 and 20 could have been me! 12, especially;-)

Cass said...

If Gibb's knocked on my door I'd be out of here so quickly.