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.









Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Kitchen dilemma. Help required.

While recognising there is very little to choose between them I remain at a loss as to what kitchen to go for.

This one or this one. Both are from the same High Street DIY chain, one is wood and veneer, one is covered MDF. And then there are these ones.

All of them with cup handles like Mr Oleson's store in Little House on the Prairie.
(But you have to imagine this one in a stoney grey/green sort of colour.)


Input anyone?

12 comments:

lifesmudged said...

I like the Winchester.

Julie said...

i like the top one of the 3 photo's and anything that is a reminder of Mrs Olsen's store is cool with me!!

Thimbleanna said...

I LOVE those cup handles, but hubby doesn't, so we probably won't get them. BooHoo.

Hmmmm. I probably like the Windsor a little better. And on this page -- the top two. But, really, they're all so pretty!

Locket Pocket said...

I like the Windsor best of the first two because I like that it has a smooth finish rather than the wood-look. But that's just me! The cup handles sound fantastic! Locketxx

wonderwoman said...

I have to say that i like pic no. 1! Xxx

Mary said...

I love the first one too - I sense a trend happening here.

Mary said...

I love the first one too - I sense a trend happening here.

chaletgirl said...

I'd get the Windsor!

Cass said...

I like the winchester. The bench looks longer ad you can never have too much bench space and I like the ability to sit at the bench as well

CurlyPops said...

I really like both but I think I like the Windsor more!

Moogsmum said...

The middle photo or Windsor - easy peasy....can't understand your problem. Mind you, I reckon I'll be at least 60 before I get any sort of a new kitchen!

You do realise that as soon as your new kitchen is open to the public I will be propping my elbow on your island unit?

xx

Kitty said...

I love that Windsor kitchen - I agree with Locket that the smooth units are better. I know someone who had a woodish texture and dust stuck to it! :)