TrashCan: It's the weekend!!!!!!

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, 6 June 2008

It's the weekend!!!!!!

Ha! Ha! No work today so the dishes can wait, the washing is hung out and the dogs can sleep or whine or generally irritate b/c - I've been invited out for 'coffee'!!

(For those of you of a less than pure disposition - why yes Kityy and MM, I am looking at you! I have put coffee in 'air quotes' b/c I don't drink it and therefore shall be having something cool and refreshing. NOT b/c I am meeting some tall, dark and handsome ceature for an illicit rendezvous - although if Anthony Head would like to phone me, my number is 555-454321.)

6 comments:

Lesley said...: I hope you had a great time on you 'coffee' date. I missed out on my one day off this week as my selfish children were at home (teacher training - again!). I'm soooo looking forward to next Friday - 'cos it's mine....all mine....mwaa ha ha ha haaaaa

xxx; 6 June 2008 7:05 pm
Kitty said...: "Less pure disposition"? :-O I am aghast Trashy - what can you mean?

OK I admit it, I'm a total smutbucket - and if you were to meet a tall, dark, handsome 'coffee' would you please enquire as to whether he has a tall darm handsome brother/friend? Ta muchly.

Hope you had a great time. x; 7 June 2008 9:19 pm
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Hope you had a good time Trashy - you seem to have gone quiet since then.......!; 7 June 2008 9:32 pm
the vicious chicken said...: Totally agree with you here - this weekend has come as a great relief after a looooong week!
VCxx; 7 June 2008 10:13 pm
wonderwoman said...: hey, hey - love the inverted commas - wouldn't be a pimms moment would it - i just love those - in fact had one today and will probably have one, or two, this evening!
girl after my own heart!; 8 June 2008 4:50 pm
Katy said...: Hope you had a good 'coffee' date! My friend worked with Anthony Head last year, and said he was really lovely and very tall...she is very short though.; 8 June 2008 7:13 pm