That there (up above) is my new U.K.-learned term of the day. Courtesy of Nikki. I want to move to the U.K. so I have an excuse to say things like “knackered” and “twit” and “Let’s run home and a have a knee trembler and then a bit of tea, shall we?” (Wait, the word isn’t twit…it’s something else. Tart? No. Twat. Uh, no, I don’t think so. Strumpet? No, not that either. Nikki, help! What am I again?).
Well, I’m knackered, but that’s not the word I mean. Up at 6 a.m. to finish proofing Roast, and then to spend the rest of the day inputting proofing changes. Tomorrow, I’m off for Vermont for a roasting technology event at Green Mountain Coffee. What’s the U.K. word for freezing my hoo-haw off? ‘Cause that’s pretty sure what is going to happen…
That would be ‘Baltic’. As in ‘it’s pure Baltic out there’. Or brass monkeys, as in: Cold enough to freeze the balls off a …
Anyway, darling, I have checked with the Glasgow Embassy and I’m pleased to say that you are officially a ’smout’. Or perhaps on special occassions – a ‘belter’. : )
I can’t wait til you come and visit and try out all the phrases I’m going to teach you. Trust me much? x
Isn’t the whole point of a knee trembler that you don’t have to run home to have one
I’ve never heard that phrase b4, but it’s in my vocab now.
Thnx, Raina