TrashCan: It isn't easy being a spikey creature you know.

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, 20 November 2009

It isn't easy being a spikey creature you know.

What's your Patronus?

Your Result: Your Patronus is a Hedgehog!

Bravery is your strong suit, and you are a kind creature to all, though your spiney exterior may make others think otherwise. You are proud of the strange parts of you that make you different!

Apparently the next two most likely options were Wolf and Panther. Elegant, graceful, energetic, bounding, intelligent carnivores. However the Patronus Gods decided I would be best off as a hedgehog . A bristley, scuttley, lice-ridden, little creature. If I get the choice bags I being like one of these ones.

10 comments:

dottycookie said...: If it helps, I could always ask Mr DC if he'd build you a hedgehog house ... though how do you feel about nesting down in dry leaves and hay?; 20 November 2009 9:03 am
Katy said...: what are your 'strange parts' - the ones you are proud of? I didn't notice anything particularly strange about you when I saw you. Next time I'll look more closely....; 20 November 2009 9:24 am
wonderwoman said...: i dont think you have a spiney exterior!!!!

xxxxx; 20 November 2009 10:33 am
quinn said...: Now,now...they don't ALL have lice.

Can't help wondering about your strange part, though! Haven't noticed them in your bloggy photos ;); 20 November 2009 10:39 am
Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: What do Katy and Quinn mean? No strange bits? Of COURSE you've got strange bits! That's what makes you so fantastic and special!

I'm all in favour of strange bits - got quite a few of them myself too!!!

Locket xxxx

P.S. Which quiz did you do?; 20 November 2009 11:22 am
a nutt said...: A hedgehog! That is great!! Expeto - patronum!!!!

Or something like that.

yes...I agree with Locket whole heartedly and would also like to know what quiz.; 20 November 2009 1:15 pm
mkosboth said...: I wandered here from the Women's Colony and just spent time reading some of your recent posts. My brain is reeling from having to do some serious American to Australian/British translating. But that is a good thing! Loved the pictures from the department store.; 20 November 2009 1:51 pm
Joanne said...: you know I love 'the hog' and now that I'm linked to them so much more closely I love them even more!

Glad I'm a wolf tho tee hee ;-); 20 November 2009 9:52 pm
andregastelum0104 said...: cool....................................................................................................; 21 November 2009 2:31 pm
lauren said...: ooof...sorry about that...i can't help feeling *I* might be one of the STRANGE BITS you inexplicably like!!! :)

(ps: i ♥LOVE♥ hedgehogs...& anyway can't imagine you as wolf or panther or ANYTHING predatory; a creature that's adorable but takes NO CRAP...yeah...that sounds about right!!♥); 29 November 2009 2:47 pm