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.









Saturday, 2 June 2012

Fat Quarterly Report One. Subtitle: Just for the record.

Having checked in to my swanky hotel with the longest corridors and smallest rooms ever, I showed my new friend Mandy the sights (ahem *cough*cough*) Regent Street,  Liberty and Carnaby Street.

Contrary to popular opinion and expectation there has been no wild behaviour. Me chatting up with the rather gorgeous man on the tube while being serenaded by buskers doing a rather insipid version of 'The Irish Rover' was sheer serendipity.


I have stood on no tables. All other reports and stories should be taken with a really large grain of salt.

However as I am typing my roof has sprung a leak and it seems my shower is now right by the door.

8 comments:

Thimbleanna said...

Well, it sounds like you're making the most of it, in spite of dodgy accomodations. I hope you had a wonderful time!

Mrs. G. said...

Stand on some tables, woman!

Amys Crafty Shenanigans said...

Many thanks to Scary Mary for being the kind bag-lady she is to carry all my gear home from the reataurant after Claudia let the naughty table drink her beer whoo let my knee, leg and the floor taste some too :) See you again soon Trash!!

Katy said...

was soooo much fun to see you - thank you for organising all the sample swap shenanigans and stuff. You are a superstar x

Brioni Greenberg said...

It was wonderful so see you - as always - but we were rather disssapointed that we didn't see you dancing on tables. Next year perhaps?

Eli said...

Oh? I was sure it was you I saw sambaing on the table...Thank you for a great time. Didn't manage to get a pic of Scary Mary, though, so you need to bring her back next year. Please!

Moogsmum said...

Hee hee - although I missed out on the fun this time I can always claim I was there on that day when you stood on the tables at Country Living, to the horror of the twinset and pearls brigade.

your hotel sounds delightful!

trash said...

I so never ever stood on the table!