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.









Wednesday, 11 August 2010

My kids went to the Isle of Wight and all I got was ...

... this black eye.
Do you like it?


Do you wanna see a close-up?
Rotten blurry kid.



Sunday afternoon as everyone was lolling around recovering from the week of holiday I pushed open the door into the living room just as Princess C-W turned suddenly.



BAM!




Next thing I know I am on the floor with a black eye starting to form.










Wanna see?












I think my girl has a career in make-up artistry beckoning.
They are so realistic looking and fabulous fun to do.
This is destructoBoy's self-inflicted knee 'injury' or 'bruisescar' as it is also known he tells me.
All done with judicious application of eyeshadow and some gentle blending.
Hours of fun for the whole family. Except CK who is a grump and did not find it either funny or smart.

19 comments:

quinn said...

Being quite clumsy, I am generally wearing a fading assortment of "the real thing" at any given time. Last month after dragging around 16' steel stock panels to fence in my goats, I wore long sleeves and trousers in public until I didn't look quite so much like the victim of a mugging - bruises from ankles to wrists. But no black eye! Just lucky, I guess!

wonderwoman said...

definitely a make-up artist in the making!!

xx

p.s. love my strawbs!

Kitty said...

:-O I thought you'd been really truly hurt and was worrying about you, and all the time it was a trick. Very good though - that girl of yours has a real talent :) x

Locket Pocket said...

Very clever! Especially as my word verification is "pains"!!! Locket xx

Andi said...

Fun for the whole family!

Moogsmum said...

Oh man - you had me going there! I thought you'd fallen victim to a local ruffian.

Marvellously convincing work and I'm genuinely shocked that CK didn't fancy wearing eye shadow - or is eyeliner more his style?

xx

p.s. see you next week! Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Joy said...

Oh yes, she's definitely found her calling ..... that looks so cool :o)!!
Hugs,
Joy :o)

Kerryanne English said...

You had me going there for a minute Trash... I'm glad it is not the real thing but am very impressed with Princess C-W's obvious talent.

Cass said...

Wow she did a great job.

1615 said...

要友誼長存,我們必須原諒彼此的小缺點。......................................................

雅王任 said...

一棵樹除非在春天開了花,否則難望在秋天結果。............................................................

CurlyPops said...

I love how your mind works!

Gina said...

You almost had me going there!

Mary said...

As I was reading I was thinking "that is a very pretty bruise!"

Then the truth was revealed..

lauren said...

OOF! what's that sound??! ah yes, i am pretty sure it is *HOLLYWOOD* calling PC-W! her talents are needed, STAT!!! (you totally had me fooled!) (yikes!)

Copper Patch said...

Very cool and what a wonderful way to use those retro shades.
I remember mum doing my makeup for calithenics way back when....I looked like a I had a black eye and I have the photos to proove it!
Enjoy the injuries!

our shabby cottage said...

The sparkley bits gave it away on the close up, but she did a great job and I was convinced up 'till then!!!

silverpebble said...

Er, that's you. I thought that 'you' wasn't allowed on blogs

Seriously though, top skills with the blue eyeshadow. Did you half inch it off Mrs Majors my Maths teacher? She blurry loved the stuff. In 1985 anyway.

trash said...

Oh no, am allowed on blogs. Just not allowed on tables apparently.