TrashCan: Making, dogs and making dogs.

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.

Sunday, 6 May 2012

Making, dogs and making dogs.

Starting with the 'making'.This is my Fat Quarterly 2012 nametag for my secret partner. 26 Days til kickoff. Aaaaaak!! And then the piece I made for Jenny as part of her 'Kistch 2012' swap. TG she forgave its tardiness.

Then there was 'dogs'. My big black dog has taken to very loudly saving the world from the wood pigeons and collared doves which have taken up residence in ours and surrounding gardens this Spring. I watched him standing out in the gale-force winds for 20 minutes the other day.

Can you see what he is staring at?

Stupid bloody pigeonydove bird.

And finally there is the 'making dogs' bit. I gave My Assistant a haircut last week and turns out you can get TWO dogs from one clipping session!

3 comments:

Moogsmum said...: Hee hee - daft old boy :o) That's a very Moog thing to do.

Minx has just peered over my shoulder at your little woolly dogs and said 'Whose are thos dogs? Are they scotties?'.

xxx; 6 May 2012 5:45 pm
wonderwoman said...: love the stitching! At least you can see what your dog is barking at, Lil just looks at nothing and barks! xxxx; 7 May 2012 5:47 pm
smalltownme said...: If I'd saved all the cat hair, I could make a few extra too.; 15 May 2012 12:28 am