TrashCan: Three lovely things happened today.

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, 15 December 2011

Three lovely things happened today.

1. My kitchen was delivered in a van and the kitchen-making man says it should all be done by Saturday night.
2. My son sang a very cool solo during the school carol service. He did the first verse in Herod's song from the One Bright Star cantata. Imagine a really cool, swinging 1-2 beat - "There's one sovereign and that's me. The rules are made by my decree so what's this rubbish I hear today that baby's been born who will take my crown away?"
3. While sitting through the rest of the carol service after my boy's triumph my lovely friend Vicki turned to me and asked if I would help her carry out a family tradition. Now that Granny is knitting for God and the Angels Vicki was wondering if I would knit one for him. Yes! Yes! Yes! How exciting, I get to create Will' first ever school jumper.

All very lovely things.

8 comments:

Calidore said...: What a fabulous day. So glad the concert went well, the kitchen is taking shape and a new jumper and family tradition is alive and well.

Merry Christmas to you all.; 15 December 2011 11:38 PM
peskypixies said...: wonderful,wonderful,WONDERFUL!!!; 16 December 2011 1:46 AM
smalltownme said...: I love hearing lovely things!; 16 December 2011 5:10 AM
Copper Patch said...: Yup, your world is pretty darn good. Love the scrumy red sofa too.
Ab x; 16 December 2011 9:04 AM
Mary said...: I'm with smalltownme.; 16 December 2011 9:53 AM
Thimbleanna said...: Yipee!!! I can't wait to see that kitchen -- I can feel the excitement!!!; 16 December 2011 1:06 PM
jennyflower said...: It must be Christmas- I'm sat here dabbing my eyes! xxxx; 16 December 2011 1:10 PM
wonderwoman said...: will be the best school jumper ever!!!!!; 18 December 2011 5:02 PM