TrashCan: A birthday in pictures (and a few words)

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.

Thursday, 24 November 2011

A birthday in pictures (and a few words)

Breaking out into her teen years.

Thrilled to receive a long-awaited book.

Personalised Converse

Breakfast cake and candles (Banana and white chocolate)

Swish hat from bestest aunt

Teatime cake (Choc mint roulade with choc mint filling).

All in all I think it was a successful launch.

5 comments:

smalltownme said...: A wonderful birthday. Congrats to her!; 24 November 2011 4:22 PM
Gina said...: Very happy birthday gorgeous girl!; 24 November 2011 6:42 PM
Daisie said...: Happy birthday, love the hat!!! x; 24 November 2011 8:59 PM
dkuroiwa said...: your girl is beautiful!!! Happy, Happy birthday to her...and you!!
and seriously...i think that my next birthday, i'm starting the birthday cake AND teatime cake thing...niiice.
just for the record....i WILL have my own pair of those converse by the time MY birthday rolls around. guarandamnteed!!!; 26 November 2011 12:30 PM
julie said...: What a fab way to enter your teens, with cake at both ends of the day and a wonderful aray of pressies - love the picture where she discovers the book. Belated happy birthday from us Princess CW xxx; 27 November 2011 6:10 PM