Blog 45 – Snot and Trana – Ms Paige Turner tells a Porkie Pie on each blog. This bi-month you can get an emailed short story from Jan Moran Neil’s soon to be EPublished – Serving Bluebird Pie – bound to make you laugh …
Mister Justin Case introduced me to this phrase – it’s South African – Snot and Trana.
I don’t need to translate the former but the second means ‘tears’ and the South Africans being a paternalistic nation (please don’t sue me – I’m married to one of them) kind of refer to women going through this some little time before big events like weddings which is coming up in two weeks time, God – I told You. TWO WEEKS TIME – SO CAN YOU PLEASE SWITCH ON THE SUN??
In fact, Will Bulteel – former Creative Ink writing student has just written on his Facebook Status – What is better than the smell of warm rain on a wet pavement? Yes, you’ve guessed. I wrote ‘sun’.
Where is the sun? That is my ‘snot und trana’. And the only ‘snot and trana’ Miss Trial is going through is hay fever. We are over all that six week pre-snot and trana period, with fascinators in place and looking forward to a sunny wedding, dear God.
So, Sun, get your hat on and no snot and trana – just the calm before the storm – oh – there I go again …
Still places on the Wednesday morning Creative Ink for Writers course starting October 17th at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield and my collection of poems and stories – Serving Bluebird Pie – is about to be EPublished on Amazon/Kindle – more news coming soon.
No-one picked up that Timothy AJ Cox is Timothy JA Cox as is his website – last bi-month.
Just in from three intensive days of Olympics Opening rehearsals, not so much ‘snot and trana’ as ‘aches and pains’ or should that be ‘aches und pains’? As in ‘snot und trana’, which looks suspiciously like an attempt to slip some German into the porkie pie. Ja?
Will be thinking of you in need of sunshine … und blus himmel.