I first started capturing her storytelling using the video mode on our digital camera, around about April, but she soon refused to let me film her. So I tried writing her stories while she told them, using pen and paper. That lasted for only a few stories too, before she caught on. Since then, I've been recording her using a mini MP3 recorder, which is pretty unobtrusive, and transcribing the audio later. She then objected strongly to this as well... Nowadays I use a combo of MP3 and video to record her before transcribing. I only manage to record a fraction of the stories she tells. I always have a backlog of stories on the recorder that still need transcribing, as it's impossible for me to keep up with her. To help new readers, I've marked my favourite stories with a star (*), so at least you have somewhere to start if you don't know where to begin. Don't forget to check the older archives too - there are some gems in there as well!

Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Aladar and the invertebrates, late-July 07

And Aladar think, offered to him, and he looked
And he did “ALL THESE BLACK ANTS COMING!!!!
AND THE RED ANTS!!!!!”
THEY MIGHT BITE THEM! AND THEY RAN AWAY
And they don’t want, so many ants have been biting
And was black ants! And red ants... and they don’t want them
Oh, not in indeed... action, they in action!
And they looked and lived happily ever after
And they looked and lived happily ever after
Theee end, the ants have been hold in by the dinosaurs time
And the dinosaurs waked up
They (whispers) tiptoed, tiptoed, tiptoed
They (whispers) “night time, have to be careful, there’s (indecipherable)”, they tiptoed... tiptoed
(Still whispering) Tiptoed, tiptoed, tiptoed, tiptoed, tiptoed, tiptoed, tiptoed, tiptoed, tiptoed
“DAHHHH!!!!” said the t-rex passing by them, “this is, this is... againnn!!!” (singsong)
“At the show please!” (the whispers) “at the show...”
The sun is worldwide and from the (indecipherable), and the jungle hat
The jungle hat! (Starts singing) Gives me dimey day, ah mm mm mm mmm
YIPPEE YA YA YA YIPPEE YIPPEE YAAA!!! YIPPEE YA YAAA!!!
They wake up, and they stepped
Stepped to an open place where they have hidden the ball
And they hidden the ball somewhere else inside
“Courage” said Aladar. Aladar pulled out the covers and slammed it away
And he looked, and he slammed it away again, and there was another Aladar
The Aladar said “shaaall we back!” .....
They were not here.... they, they camped down on a deep way hill that they hidden
And they hidden the ball somewhere, inside the butterfly
And they pulled out the ball from the butterfly, crushed him...
And they pushed out a yit (??), and they exited
And they exit, and they saw, and it closed...
And they worrying that they were closed, they were closed for a minute!
In a minute, an hour to this one!
In a minute, hour... they were closed
On this insect who was... not nice
She’s in the shop, they might be careful of him, so they ran away
And couldn’t, because of this insect, that poopying so much!
And they looked, and they watched
They lunched on a yit (??)
And they lunched for a bit, and they lunched for a bit!
An owl too, and insect, hopped in a spider web
A little spider web?
(Starts singing) A little spider web, tied... of the spider web...
(Still singing) I’ll buy a pieeeece, said the millipede..
They camped down on this way home, and they settled down on this way home
And this insect have been told in by this insect, by the spider web
The spider web have been hidden the ball outside, and this is a BIG spider web
Then a big spider web using a (indecipherable) reading this, this is the word
This word has been covered by the injured bug
Happen at these parts
(Sings) Big and green, that is so tall, that I want to beeee
(Still singing) Clean and by oh that oh be, come on dine on meee
They covered out on this way home
Travelling over the dead (in an undertone)...
They were scared from that, over this snake
So they see this snake, of this snake, of this
Of this is a snake, the S of the bush...

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