TrashCan: New arrival expected soon

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.

Monday, 21 November 2011

New arrival expected soon

I received one of the most exciting emails ever today.

Julie let me know that I was the lucky name drawn out by the random number draw-er thingy. Once she has cleared passport control and got through her discussions with immigration officials (there are several counties between me and Julie) Laramie is going to dance her little apple green shoes all the way up here to the top of The Hill.

I am more than just a little excited about this. What better way to celebrate the pale green gorgeousness that will be my new kitchen than with a pale green, kid silk haze (!!) beautiful girlie rabbit.

Je suis tres tres ecstasie.

8 comments:

Tanya said...: Hooray for you trash, that is very happy news. Green kitchen sounds pretty lovely.; 21 November 2011 9:07 PM
wonderwoman said...: I am sooo excited for you and cant wait to meet her! Xxx; 21 November 2011 10:15 PM
Thimbleanna said...: Eeeeeek!!!! Oh, you lucky, lucky girl! She's just beautiful!!!; 22 November 2011 2:54 AM
silverpebble said...: Wow. Are you rolling out the red carpet?; 22 November 2011 10:24 AM
anna said...: i spotted your name on her blog as one of the winners! so very pleased for you! hope she arrives with you soon!!; 22 November 2011 9:01 PM
Locket Pocket said...: Oh you lucky lucky thing! I am green with envy! Locket xx; 23 November 2011 4:20 PM
Ulla's Quilt World said...: Hi! Greetings from Finland! That's so fantastic! It's so nice to find other quilters all around the world! :); 25 November 2011 6:36 PM
periwinkle said...: Congratulations, they truly are works of art .; 30 November 2011 10:23 PM