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(The not-so-secret diary of life and stuff in a hilltop town)
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, 5 January 2012
Importance of instruction following
During a recent IKEA trip my girl noticed this warning on a storage container.
Oh that's hilarious, well you'd be disappointed if you went in there looking for somewhere to store the kids he he. I wonder sometimes about some of the warnings on things (???) lol. Hugs, Joy :o)
Ha, too funny! I'll never forget when I dragged my sister to one's of those big "Baby Bunting' style stores when I was pregnant, and we overheard a Dad ask "does it come with a lid" when referring to a port-a-cot! We turned and he was deadly serious! Crazy! We midwives actually have a pamphlet saying 'don't shake babies' becasue of some of the idiots out there....
if Calidore finds that box for teens, please make sure the info gets passed on! that sticker is hilarious and one i would imagine seeing here....good eye, there, young one!!!
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Oh that's hilarious, well you'd be disappointed if you went in there looking for somewhere to store the kids he he. I wonder sometimes about some of the warnings on things (???) lol.
Hugs,
Joy :o)
roflmol. Wonder if they make a box big enough for teenagers? Mine could do with packing away for a few days...sigh.
Ha, too funny! I'll never forget when I dragged my sister to one's of those big "Baby Bunting' style stores when I was pregnant, and we overheard a Dad ask "does it come with a lid" when referring to a port-a-cot! We turned and he was deadly serious! Crazy! We midwives actually have a pamphlet saying 'don't shake babies' becasue of some of the idiots out there....
if Calidore finds that box for teens, please make sure the info gets passed on!
that sticker is hilarious and one i would imagine seeing here....good eye, there, young one!!!
Ha ha ha! Oh dear!
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