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(The not-so-secret diary of life and stuff in a hilltop town)
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.
Thursday, 15 September 2011
It is MY dirt and I'm Not sharing.
Because I am a terrier. And all 18 cubic tonnes of topsoil are mine.
And I am going to sit on top of this 20 foot long by 10 foot wide by five foot tall pile and never go in for my tea again and you can't make me.
Little dogs are definitely the most stubborn - you can tell by the set of her ears that your Assistant is not going to be shifted - at least not until dinner is on the floor!
10 comments:
Indubitably.
There's a similar pile of dirt at my place too and Milly has claimed that. What is it with dogs and dirt?????
Looks like you have been working that lower 40 again Trash.
Oh, I'll bet that attitude is nothing a little bowl of doggie treats wouldn't fix LOL! How's the reno coming???
He has the same look on his face as my smaller child does when told to come out of the flowerbeds.
That little pooch is definitely saying "Don't mess with me". I think you may have met your match!
Little dogs are definitely the most stubborn - you can tell by the set of her ears that your Assistant is not going to be shifted - at least not until dinner is on the floor!
Gotta love the dog with a bone attitude.
One tough cookie! Xx
Hee hee - nice to see who's in charge up there on the hill ;o)
xx
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