TrashCan: Perspective.

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.

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Perspective.

This is my new sofa. Notice my 40th birthday quilt is sitting happily draped over the arm?

I quite like my sofa but with no reference it is tricksy to know scale. So....

... this is what my sofa looks like with a "psuedo" sleeping 13 year old on it.

and even greater example - couch with Assistant and 10 year old.

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I got kicked out of my house tonight. There was much rustling of plastic bags and conspiratorial giggling as I headed out into the dark, cold night.

This is what I found when I was allowed home.

Princess Curly Wurly had been out onto the icy flat roof to collect the lights CK had thrown up onto there. She then arranged them beautifully on top of the larger rooflight.

*sigh* I quite like my family.

4 comments:

Stomper Girl said...: Your new sofa looks very stylish and comfy, which is the main thing; 15 December 2011 11:57 AM
Thimbleanna said...: Oh how fun! What a clever family to put lights up there! Your new sofa looks wonderful -- I'll bet you're chomping at the bit to get settled in to the new space!; 15 December 2011 1:28 PM
dkuroiwa said...: that sofa is the bomb. looks incredibly wonderful in that space. and.....Curly Wurly? i love her even more. those lights are absolutely perfect!!!; 15 December 2011 2:15 PM
one little acorn said...: Love the red sofa. The colour is great. As for the Xmas lights... is it just me, or can you see a face? Sort of a Picasso face, but a face for sure...; 18 December 2011 8:27 PM