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.









Sunday, 11 December 2011

OH! MY! STARS! Look! Look! Look!

Come see what is on the other side of my living room door.

Not quite 12 months ago, last Christmas Day,  I was given the present of a kitchen.And not just a kitchen but the getting rid of the the manky skanky horrible mouldy old lean-to kitchen that had been the bane of my life for the past 13 years.
See it really was icky, wasn't it?

But not anymore. The flooring went in this weekend, most of the painting is done and the kitchen units are being put up on Friday.
 
It is a little different, huh? The view out the window in the first picture was taken roughly from the edge of the laundry door there back near to the wall. 

11 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...

what a beautiful space........looking forward to seeing the kitchen.........

smalltownme said...

It's huge! Can't wait to see the cabinets.

dottycookie said...

That's not a kitchen, that's the size of my entire house! Green with envy here - well done you :-)

Copper Patch said...

Subtle change - I like it.

;-)

dkuroiwa said...

wow. that's it...just..wow.
and really, i can't wait either to see the finished area!!!

Thimbleanna said...

Ooooh, it's looking sleek and pretty so far! I can't wait to see the cabinets -- I'll bet you're beyond excited!!!

julie said...

wow it's looking fantastic! Roll on friday - I bet you can't wait although in the meantime you could make some extra cash by hiring it out as a roller disco - it's certainly big enough and that floor looks like it would be lovely to skate on! Go on, have a whizz before the units go in!

wonderwoman said...

its sooo exciting!!!!

Calidore said...

WOW Looks wonderful and it will be even better when you can start using it. Doing the happy dance for you.

Chocolate Cat said...

Wow! can't wait to see the finished result.

Stomper Girl said...

You will be cooking up a storm in that!