TrashCan: So very close to home

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, 23 September 2011

So very close to home

I received a text and an email from the very lovely Katy at I'm a Ginger Monkey yesterday letting me know that my 40th birthday quilt had entered the home straight and was galloping up the flat with just a few more jumps left. She even included a picture of it all quilted up by the talented Chris.

If you would just care to tilt your head or your laptop screen you could even see it the right way around but bloody stupid Blogger won't let me rotate pictures in its artsy fartsy new interface.

I am so very excited and thrilled and possibly even doing a little jig here in the living room because my new quilt will be settled in back here on top of The Hill in time to get comfortable before moving into the new kitchen.

Is it not fabulous? A mahoosive thank you to everyone who sent fabric for it :-)

As Chookyblue suggested I went back and used old-fashioned Blogger to put in the pic the right way up. This is what it looks like.

8 comments:

Munkeh said...: Its OUTSTANDING!!!; 23 September 2011 1:18 pm
wonderwoman said...: Wohoo!!! Can't wait to see it, it looks amazing in the photo!

xxx; 23 September 2011 1:21 pm
smalltownme said...: Oh, it's beautiful!; 23 September 2011 4:29 pm
Locket Pocket said...: It's fabulous..........although I still have two fat quarters of fabric to go in it....whoops! and sorry for being so useless! Locket xx; 23 September 2011 6:30 pm
Thimbleanna said...: Lookin' hot Trashy -- I hope you get it VERY soon!; 24 September 2011 3:47 am
rachelmp said...: Looking great!; 24 September 2011 5:49 am
Moogsmum said...: Oh wow, it's fabulous!!! No wonder you're doing a happy dance! When it passes the finish line I may have to make a special trip to the hill to meet it in person :o)

xx; 24 September 2011 9:52 am
Chookyblue...... said...: just go back to the old interface if you don't like the new one.......I flaot between the two styles.......; 25 September 2011 6:47 am