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, 14 December 2007

Oh, so much fun to be had at Christmas!

I have been playing on Ravelry for the first time in ages today and oh! oh! oh! it is too cool for school! (Okay so that makes me very uncool just using that phrase but keep with me it is worth it.)


Just on the first page that metaphorically says 'this is like a cross between Hamely's, Harrods and Mall of America' there is so much fun stuff to see. If any of you fancy spending five minutes of your life having a hoot of a time then I suggest you go and have a look here -




Princess C-W kept asking if it were possible would I buy the product she had created? Being a lovely, facilitating kind of mother I said that under no circumstances would I pay money for such an object and she would thank me for it later in her life. Her father on the other hand said he would buy it for her for next Christmas and make her wear it to school!


Do you have a stash?


Are you regularly encouraged to stand forward and say
'My name is Trasha. L and I am a fibre addict.' ?


Well now is your chance to prove to those concerned faces in your life that you are simply enjoying specialist artist materials and in
no way have a problem.
Because unless you have given over your entire house
and then built extra rooms you really are just a beginner.

3 comments:

Kitty said...

Ha! I've bookmarked the seater place - the kids can make themselves some disgusting things on that!

As for that woman's stash of yarn ... :-O It makes me feel quite virtuous about my four plastic tubs of fabric :-D x

insanknitty said...

I can't believe that yarn stash... it makes me realize she has better selection than my LYS! Holy moly!

Monkee Maker said...

Ah yes. I've just created myself the perfect seasonal cardi. Lovely. Now I just have to knuckle down and knit it. Thanks for the link.