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.









Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Floor for new laundry

I have fallen in love with this idea. I think it clever, looks smart and is exceptionally fabulous.

CK remains unconvinced about having the ENTIRE floor pennified but has had a lovely time claculating the cost of the floor per square metre, the quantity required, and what how many would be need if two pence pieces were used instead because, as we all know, they are twice the diameter of a penny and therefore take up four times the space.

Do you love it? Do you?

We are currently tabling it as an issue for future discussion.

8 comments:

smalltownmom said...

Love it!

CurlyPops said...

Yes love it here too!

willywagtail said...

Not sure that would be legal unless the coins were out dated. I thought it looked like jigsaws when I first looked. Now that would be a good use for all those puzzles that get done but not allowed to be undone. Cherrie

Calidore said...

Awesome!!!!!

quiltygal said...

What about using Notes 5 or 10 they would be bigger :) get CK to calculate that then the pennies will sound much better

Moogsmum said...

I think it looks like a fab idea but I would soooo hate to be the one to lay a floor like that!

xxx

lifesmudged said...

Love it! Really love it. But I don't know if I would ever get K-man to agree to it.

I must know: is it cheaper than bog standard flooring?

Locket Pocket said...

I think that looks like a fabulous idea! When I was little my mum always used to give me the shiny pennies that she was given in her change when out shopping and I loved them - I haven't been able to pass that fascination with shiny pennies on to the little Lockets unfortunately!