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.









Friday, 30 March 2012

The dogs in my life.

I took both dogs out this morning, we walked around the bottom of The Hill and then back up to the top. This is how my big black dog has spent the rest of the day since.
 There is supposed to be a really tall kitchen cupboard in this spot next to the fridge but said black dog claimed it the first day we moved into the finished kitchen so we are figuring out a way to build around him!


One of my lovely neighbours gave us some very sweet egg cups as a kitchen warming present last Saturday. They have crowns, bunting, the year 2012 and two corgis rampant on them so we may always remember the year we finished building. 

This is the 'Thank You' card we gave her.
   
 Other than his wonky back foot I was very pleased with the way it turned out. I especially like the little fobwatch chain.

And finally some historical footage of My Assistant in a nearly empty kitchen. Within a couple of days she had figured out how not to slide so much, the game became less fun for us watchers.

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4 comments:

smalltownme said...

All your dogs are fabulous. Now was that historical footage or hysterical footage???

Calidore said...

Ohh love it. Same thing happens here on the tile floors. Watching a red heeler narrowly miss hitting walls and door way as she chases the cat is hilarious. Give your gorgeous puppies a cuddle for me.

Thimbleanna said...

What cute dogs you have Trash! I sure miss having a dog. Is your kitchen close to being finished?

wonderwoman said...

aren't wooden floors great - they always end up sliding way past what they are after! xxx