TrashCan: London Baby!

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.

Monday, 28 May 2012

London Baby!

(go on admit it, you totally read that in Joey's voice didn't you?)

FIVE sleeps and I am hitting 'London Baby!' for a weekend of sewing, squealing, swearing and sitting as it is time for Fat Quarterly 2012.

Of course if I was an organised and competent person I would have everything all packed up and ready to take, my list of classes fully printed out and a fresh set of clean undies for just in case. To date I have one of these but luckily it is the one of which my mother would most definitely approve. I think I am doing the cutting up 100 squares of 2" fabric before sewing to back together class. And the stitchy one. And possibly the cushion cover. I know I have signed up for doing the ironing in our IronMan Challenge (Group 5 I think).

Really really looking forward to seeing a few familiar faces again and meeting a whole load of new ones.

21 comments:

Thimbleanna said...: How fun -- you lucky girl. I hope you have a fantastic time!!!; 28 May 2012 3:55 am
Sue Bone said...: LOL. I have that item covered too.; 28 May 2012 5:28 am
Di said...: Looking forward to putting the blog to the person! Di x; 28 May 2012 8:29 am
Anne said...: Lol, I cut about 200 2" squares yesterday, so I guess we'll be in the same class. See you next weekend!; 28 May 2012 9:14 am
Rachel said...: Can't wait to meet you, Trash!
R x; 28 May 2012 10:12 am
susan said...: You are so not the only one not yet prepared, but still really looking forward to being there and meeting you.; 28 May 2012 11:06 am
moira said...: I had only prepped for wonky log cabins but then re-read my schedule email and I'm not doing that class #prepfail! Back to the drawing board. Really looking forward to meeting you x; 28 May 2012 12:22 pm
Laura Taylor said...: See you there!; 28 May 2012 3:01 pm
Flying Blind... said...: See you soon lovey x; 28 May 2012 5:10 pm
Catherine said...: llok forward to meeting you on Saturday; 28 May 2012 5:19 pm
Sarah said...: Jeez thanks for the reminder..must go do laundry and stop worrying about quilting supplies!! See you at the weekend!; 28 May 2012 5:39 pm
Pippa Parsons said...: lol,I bought my 2" squares lolol :); 28 May 2012 8:38 pm
Strawberry Patch said...: damn it, I am totally putting off cutting up that mountain of 2" squares!; 28 May 2012 11:30 pm
Kelly said...: See you Saturday and happy cutting ;-); 29 May 2012 8:26 am
Betty said...: I have a new face!
nearly 50 years old but new to you!
LOL
Love meeting you.; 29 May 2012 3:16 pm
Tacha said...: you should never underestimate the importance of a clean set of undies. See you soon if you haven't disappeared under the mountain of 2" squares xx; 29 May 2012 4:10 pm
wonderwoman said...: wow, judging by all the lovely comments you are going to have a great time! xxxx; 29 May 2012 10:02 pm
Annabella said...: Totally unprepared here!; 29 May 2012 10:57 pm
Annie said...: Have a fab time trash; 31 May 2012 1:46 pm
Shevvy said...: Thank god I haven't got a cutting up squares class. All I've done is chuck a load of fabric in a bag and I will sort it out on the day. It even needs ironing!!!; 31 May 2012 7:02 pm
Moogsmum said...: I totally read that in Austin Powers voice ;o)

Now off to read about your fab time in London....yeah baby!

xx; 9 June 2012 9:42 pm