TrashCan: And so we are nearing the halfway mark.

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.

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

And so we are nearing the halfway mark.

The jaunt around Victoria continues and this weekend in fact widens to take me to the other end of the country. Come Friday afternoon (EST) Sylv and I shall be jetting Northwards for a long weekend in the tropics :-) Now that has to be what the doctor ordered and if he didn't then he blurry well should!

The races were triffic fun and it was fabulous to watch the spectacle of it all. Even more amazing was during the steeplechase when the field suddenly turned a bend on the track and the lot of them took off up the hill OUT OF THE COURSE jumping all the way! How crazy is that? Not only does this track not follow a standard horse racetrack layout but halfway through this up and down meandering the horses have to cross a road?!?!? Both 8 y.o. boys (destructoBoy and his cousin, Syndrome) I have told this to in the last 24 hours had the same question - did the cars slow down?

TG next week is looking a little more relaxed with Tuesday as a full day of recovery before a bloggy meet-up (hopefully) on Wednesday and then another rest day on Thursday before heading to the big smoke for the start of SewIt Together.

Bed now to write postcards and then sleep before tomorrow kick starts the next 5 days of adventure.

7 comments:

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: A postcard for me???? Thank you so much!!! ;o); 5 May 2010 4:52 pm
Moogsmum said...: Sounds like you're having a fab time missus. This horse race thing....did the cars slow down then or did the jockeys have to jump the horses over fast moving vehicles?

Enjoy the next bit - especially that bloggy meet up :o)

xx; 5 May 2010 7:04 pm
Mama said...: Shall I expect the post card to cme here?

ps: did you see I posted traveling tunes for ya?; 5 May 2010 8:20 pm
quiltygal said...: Had a laugh at your cols comment..Whitney has just started a new job where she is wearing a long sleeve top ( to cover up the paintings there) the woman she is working with said you wont want to wear that in the summer cos it gets hot in here!!Whitney said Its ok I kinda come from the heat!!
Enjoy your time in the tropics; 6 May 2010 12:22 pm
wonderwoman said...: wow sounds like a very hectic schedule!!!
p.s have just sent you email!!

xxx; 6 May 2010 6:47 pm
Kitty said...: You'll need to come home for a rest! Is it ok if I wondered if the cars stopped for the horses, too? x; 6 May 2010 6:58 pm
俊淑娟美 said...: 此處是值得一探究竟的好部落格!!........................................; 7 May 2010 2:02 pm