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, 9 January 2012

this morning

*today is my first day alone at home in months. CK has gone back to work. The children are at school. And I have no idea when the builders will be back. The quietness is weird.
*I walked the dogs this morning and walked back up the hill with a friend and her dogs.
*a neighbour has just offered me her no longer required fabric stash. I shall accept just as soon as I find somewhere to put it all.
*we have a flat broom for the wooden floor, turns out sweeping can be fun!
*posh orange juice tastes way more yummy than the ownbrand stuff. You get what you pay for.
*have understood my mistake on the garden shawlette and rectified my idiocy.
*I plan to actually do some sewing this week. The new year/getting going vibe infusing blogland has leached out of my computer and into my head. We shall see if it makes it to my hands.

And now it is no longer this morning.

5 comments:

Annie xx TheFeltFairy said...

Enjoy you time! I bet it feels a bit strange though!

Calidore said...

Peace and Quiet. Two things that are priceless. Enjoy your time with them.

smalltownme said...

Today was my first day almost alone. Two out of 3 were back at work/school. The third doesn't show up until 11 so I had a whole glorious morning of watching Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs.

wonderwoman said...

Am feeling the get going vibe but between the horses the puppy and housework its not quite coming together!xxxxx

Chocolate Cat said...

Enjoy your day! I am sort of enjoying some peace and quiet until the kids make it out of bed, for my sanity I am letting them sleep!!!