Milestone

[skyring]

DS finished college last week and has his first job. Bashing dixies at Calvary, where his girlfriend is doing likewise.

This may end up being a net drain on the household finances, as we may be needing a new car. I already got caught short on Wednesday when I got into my driving clobber at half past two, eager for an early start, and found the carport empty, a scribbled note from one descendant, and the abandoned cell phone of the other. I had to fume for an hour and start work late.

What a pain.

I've been painfully but happily browsing through car review sites. They stopped making the car I really want about forty years ago.

Comments

[shendoah.livejournal.com]

Could you kindly translate "bashing dixies at Calvary"

[discoverylover.livejournal.com]

Sweet...thought I was the only one who didn't know what this was!

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Ahh, kitchenhand at one of Canberra's hospitals.

[shendoah.livejournal.com]

See that makes so much more sense than "beating up drunk southerners at a war reinactment"

(Dixie being "The South" in the US.)

[gir1fromipanema.livejournal.com]

That was my first interpretation, too. Until I realised that Canberra is nowhere near the Mason-Dixon line. Must put a few of these Aussie slang websites in my favourites...
:-D

[teotakuu.livejournal.com]

How sad is it that I didn't need a translation! It must be all the years with the grandparents listening to tales of swaggies during the Depression!

Condolences on the car thing. It is the downside of your ducklings still nesting at home, I suppose.

[katisha50.livejournal.com]

He got a job within a week of leaving college?!! Be very grateful he's motivated. Mine has been sitting on her well-padded bottom for the last 5 months with no motivation whatsoever.

[awaywithfairy1.livejournal.com]

Being in the medical field, I knew that Calvary was an ACT hospital. But I'll admit to having to research "dixie bashing"!