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, 6 September 2011

Happy Birthday destructoBoy

Since Blogger hates me and I can't upload pics of my evergrowing new kitchen let me just say

- birthday cake for breakfast is the bomb.
- the brand new ten year old who lists a 'Smith' dog made by his sister in his top two presents is fabulous.
- the nearly 13 yo who sewed like a champ and made a 'Smith' for her brother is also fairly amazing.
- scoring in the Posh Yarns Sunday night sale is always a buzz.
- knitting into lovely scarves the yarn purchased at Posh AND blocking them is thrilling.
- seeing how much Princess Curly-Wurly and destructoBoy have grown over the Summer is just a little bit scarey.
- the stoicism of British builders should not be underestimated. The fallout of 'Irene' is buffetting the UK and 'Cappy' is out there in the wind and rain making concrete to go build me a better life. Bless him.

5 comments:

chaletgirl said...

Happy Birthday, destructoBoy! He sounds like a complete treasure!

Can't wait to see your kitchen!

Copper Patch said...

Happy happy Birthday to DestructoBOY!!!!
I hope Cappy got some breakfast cake. Me thinks he deserves the big slice ;o)

Thimbleanna said...

Happy Birthday to DestructoBoy! It sounds as if you've had a wonderful weekend -- well, really, does one even question how good it was when it starts with cake?

Moogsmum said...

Happy happy birthday D'Boy!!!

On the blogger thing - don't take it personally. I tried to upload a photo of our two girls and that seagirl on my post tonight and it just would not let me put it where it needed to go. In the end I actually swore at blogger and suggested blogger put it somewhere the sun don't shine!

Cappy deserves many many cups of sugary tea for braving today's weather and plugging on with your new kitchen. I hope he's enjoying plenty of homemade chocolate biscuits too ;o)

xxx

Cass said...

Happy Brithday to destructo boy. He sounds awesome and so does his equally awesome sister. Can't wait for kitchen photos