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 October 2009

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! How many days until Christmas morning???

WOW! After our mahoosive day out at Ally Pally and the crazy adventures en route home courtesy of motorway traffic and a recalcitrant satnav my edges were continually smoothed by the knowledge that this was to be published for general release in the near future.

I want it NOW. I need to have it BY Christmas because so help me if this doesn't turn up in my present pile on Christmas morning Santa may just find himself looking for a new job. And a really good orthapaedic surgeon!

13 comments:

wonderwoman said...

suggest you start hinting to hubby now then!!! just subtle clues, like post it notes, photocopies of the cover, etc,.!

x

Working Mom Knits said...

Please forward CK's email addy toot sweet :)

CurlyPops said...

OMG I have to get my brain around the fact that christmas is only 7 weeks away....aaaaggggghhhh

Moogsmum said...

never mind hinting - get it ordered and give him the bill!

xxx

Purple Paisley Patch said...

Thanks for the heads up, that is definitely going on my Santa list! I hope he doesn't visit your place until he's done elsewhere, or lots of little kids (and big ones) might miss out on pressies this year. LOL :-)

ange_moore said...

What a gorgeous book! I'm thinking about setting up a wishlist on my blog so that clueless shoppers will know what to buy (although I dislike gift registries for weddings and a wishlist on my blog would be a bit similar to that I suppose...). Hope Santa gets the hint!

Calidore said...

ohhh scrummy. No wonder you want it. Ohh and I didn't need the reminder of just how close Christmas was either by the way...vbg.

Kerryanne English said...

I suggest you avoid the disappointment by arranging your own giftie Trash. Santa needs all the help he can get - he's a man after all!! LOL

Thimbleanna said...

Oh wow -- that does look like a wonderful book! And now that Halloween's over, I suppose we must talk about Christmas, huh? I hope Santa brings you everything you want!

lauren said...

WMK beat me to it--i was gonna ask if ya wanted me to email ck with a not-so-subtle hint/threat?!

b/c clearly, you SOOOOOOO need that. i'd like to think *I* also need it...but frankly i am not nearly as brave/intrepid a knitter as SOME PEOPLE...which is why amigurumi is the perfect yarncraft for me...cannot wait to see the zoo accomodations in trash towers circa late jan. 2010!!!

Sarah said...

They look fantastic! Love the blue elephant. Can't wait to see some more of them when Santa has been to see you. Hope you've been a good girl!

Joanne said...

does it have to come from santa...what about loving sisters???

a nutt said...

If what is inside the book is as adorable as the monkey on the cover...everyone should get this book!