Hairy maps of Tassie

Rambling

This is actually a sick note but I thought I'd enliven it with a title from a visitor to the Ducktionary. When you get a stats thingy on yer blog, you can go in and have a gander at how people got to you and what search terms the random visitors used. Like "hairy map of Tassie".

Ducktionary's visitors' favourites:

tracky daks
guest of her majesty
sausage sanger


And, in a short-lived burst of energy, I added The Illustrated Ducktionary. From little things slightly bigger things grow, to misquote Kev Carmody.


Great Manly Debate Part 2

Michael popped up to the look-out at Gerrin Point for us. Well, slogged really. There's outdoor stairs and crap and we've been having a parting shot from summer over the last week or so. Hot sunny days. Thank yer kindly, Michael, for services to Coasties.

Michael's Gerrin Point photos


To get to my point

So anyways, this sick note. I am buggered. Too much pain lately on top of too much family-related angst. Have been up this morning since fucking 4 A-fucking-M. Again.

It's now fucking 10AM and I've been slaughtering typos and deleting circular sentences and random irrelevancies in this post for about 3 hours. Might be time to give up and lay on the sofa for a week with a stack of DVDs. Call it two weeks, just to be on the safe side. Which is ... the start of April. Might be back before that but don't put money on it.


P.S.

I am not nearly dead, ta for asking. I get emails from lurkers every now and then asking if I've got something fatal. Much appreciated emails BTW but don't worry about me popping off.

Scottionary

These definitions are known to me through my grandfather who left Scotland in the 1950s.

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beastie
beast, animal

A wee beastie is a small animal. A tiny wee beastie is a very small animal or an insect.

bonny
good, beautiful

A bonny day is a beautiful day. A bonny child is good or good-looking.

braw
big, strong, fine

A braw fine lad is someone you would want to chat up.

canna
can't, cannot

clooses
clothes

didna
didn't, did not

fillum
film, movie

isna
isn't, is not

laddy, laddie
boy or young man

lassy, lassie
girl or young woman

no'
not, none

trews
trousers

troosers
trousers

wee
small, tiny

May be used in conjunction with "tiny" to indicate extreme smallness or youth, i.e., "a tiny wee lad" is a very young boy.


Spiketionary (Spike-speak)

Ducktionary (Translates Australian into American)

Chatspeak (Pre-txtspk but still good for a giggle)

Grab bag

(My poor over-worked brain is in recovery mode. Here’s something it prepared earlier.)


Local linkage

Gosford Times

Ettalong Beach Reporter

A photo a day - Woy Woy local

The Lost Railway of South Woy Woy



Spiketionary

Added fillum to it.



Blog for free, or near as damn it

The last bits of the how-to posts. Probably.


For free

Blogger.com (blogspot)
Flickr basic account
Sitemeter.com (tells you who is reading your blog)
Technorati (publicise your blog)


Near as damn it

Flickr Pro at $30 a year (American dollars)


Gotta get you into my life

Schedule blogging into your week. Mark off Wednesday nights for pottering about on the internet and start putting a blog post together.


Yeah but no but

Gorn! Have a go. Whatcher got to lose?

Too chicken? Got nothing to say?

Read an amusing blogtionary instead.


How to take decent photos
How to blog (ideas, writing stuff, tips)
Put your old film photos on the internet
Put your digital photos on the internet
Put your photos on a blog


Okay, that's all my brain is capable of tonight. I am buggered.

Spiketionary

(Babelfish users, this glossary is aimed at sorting out some of the confusion caused by Babelfish translations of Scottish English words and the more idiosyncratic words I use. Australian English idiom I use is translated at the Ducktionary. Both the Spiketionary and the Ducktionary are updated ocassionally.)

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brolly
umbrella

Dear Old Thing
elderly person, often frail in mind and/or body

DOT
Dear Old Thing

fillum
film, movie

stat-gasm
the little thrill you get from reading cool stats or finding out you belong in a cool offline demographic

wee
1. small size, small amount
Usage example: 'wee boy', small boy, 'wee bit', small amount, 'a wee while', a short time

2. urine