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.









Saturday, 24 July 2010

Seven years gone so quickly.

September 8 2003


September 23 2010

My girl finished primary school on Friday.

Seven years of tears
and laughter.
Friends, learning, music, adventure, experience and each and every year the 'humiliation' of sports day.
I delight in the fact that Princess Curly-Wurly has spent these school years with such a lovely, solid group of children. It gladdens my heart to think she will be entering the world of 'BIG' school side by side with most of them.
To each and everyone of those thirty gorgeous childer - I thank you and love you.

13 comments:

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...

Oooh it's all change time! Never easy. But she will love senior school! Locket xxxx

chaletgirl said...

Oh isn't she lovely! What a beautiful smile she has!

Her schooldays sound quite idyllic. All the best for the big change!

Joy said...

***sigh***
She'll have the best time at big school .... what a gawjus girl she is :o).
Hugs,
Joy :o)

wonderwoman said...

she's such a sweetie - its really scary how quick the time goes - seems only yesterday Em was at the upper school and soon she'll be 21 - gulp!!!

Annie said...

That's a great time - my little Sars went to big school this year, and it's half over - hard to believe that too.

Nonblogger said...

where on earth have those years gone???? I can't believe she's done with primary already! Congrats have to go to you and CK for surviving her primary years too. Well done! ;-)

Stomper Girl said...

Oh wow. You have no idea, do you, when you send those teeny-tiny chillun off on their first day of school how quickly seven years will fly by.

Congratulations to your Princess CW.

Gina said...

Cherish every minute... the next seven years will fly even faster! She looks lovely!

dottycookie said...

Awwww, congrats to her, and also to you for raising such a lovely young lady. And for writing a very, very touching post.

katelnorth said...

...and she time travels, too - finishing school on Sept 23rd, 2010! Seriously though, lovely post - my eldest finished primary school last year (just finished year 7 -yikes!) and the next one is going into Year 6 in the autumn. Where on earth does the time go?

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Moogsmum said...

Congratulations Princess CW!! She'll have a great time in big school and the fun's just starting for you, Trashy ;o)

xx

alice c said...

When MissM moved to Senior School she said it was fun at Junior School but even funner at Senior School. I wish Princess CW happy years in her new school and happy memories of her old school.