TrashCan: Recent crafting success.

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, 11 June 2011

Recent crafting success.

Present for a certain gorgeous boy on the other side of the world.

Hopefully it is helping to keep the chill of Winter at bay.

7 comments:

quinn said...: Wow - what a gorgeous sweater! Lucky boy :)

(Someday maybe I will be brave enough to try colorwork.); 11 June 2011 9:17 pm
Stomper Girl said...: Deeply impressed. A wearable work of art.; 12 June 2011 2:35 am
Thimbleanna said...: Very Cute. That's some serious knitting!; 12 June 2011 3:42 am
Calidore said...: Scrummy!!!!; 12 June 2011 9:41 am
Copper Patch said...: It feels like it looks and it looks damn good on the Harvey Monster. He wore today (again) with pride while we went on a big walk in the winter sunshine.

You're ace Trash!
Ab xx and H. Monster xx; 12 June 2011 10:45 am
Locket Pocket said...: oooh! Clever you! I can't knit garments! Socks are my limit I think! Locket xx; 12 June 2011 9:24 pm
Moogsmum said...: Very very lovely and just right for keeping those Aussie winter chills at bay :o)

xxx; 12 June 2011 9:25 pm