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, 29 August 2007

Aladar's Magic Goo, 2007-08-12

“ ‘Of the New Adventure’.... I saw it so titled... then get a big keyboard... THEN...

‘(indecipherable phrase) that him who bought a pink keyboard at the top of his head... there was a big round goo at the top of his head, THEN the goo became to be seen in Aladar’s... Aladar’s Magic Goo!! Then it was Aladar’s, Aladar’s Magic Goo... so he, he GOT it, his magic goo.. then, put it out..’ one of, one of the cars said, then he tried to run away

And the goo became, the goo is so angry... he runned away from it, then they will catch it

It was, it was Aladar.... Aladar was, was said no again... he was always said no... at LAST he said NO

He, he was not so happy like the others, the others were not so happy when he died... Aladar he self,” said Aladar, “the Corythosaurus (indecipherable) like died again. Then the others didn’t die... they looked for Aladar and Corythosaurus, where in they go when they died, at the zoo...”

There was so many to tell Aladar, Aladar New Adventure...

“At top of his head, there was a loud bang! He was, he was not scared of the bang because he so big. He was not so big like the others, but when brachiosaurus left... brachiosaurus was not so big like the others... the others were so big and so large they might step on him.

He made a big round goo, whereas the other ones, the others were not a big round goo... the others were just a small little goo... they were serious to catch him

Aladar was, was terrified of these words... he was not so terrified like the others, then they have him a big round goo, and another big round goo, before Aladar said, ‘is this a hungry place?’ said Aladar to Corythosaurus

Corythosaurus said, ‘it’s not a big round pokey place, it’s just a... brachiosaurus place, it’s just brachiosaurus’ place,’ Corythosaurus answered to Aladar, ‘it’s not a big round goo, hungry place’

‘Oh! I thought it was a big round hungry place! Big and goo hungry place!’

At the top of his head, Corythosaurus did a loud bang, at the top of Aladar’s head just now... it was Aladar’s head...”

(Aladar’s internal dialogue?) “This one is?... that one is this one?...there was, the next one is? This one? The next one is this one? This one again? This one is...this one?... there.... this one is... it’s it’s this one? Then this one is, this one... this one is..”

“A New Adventure!!!... Peek at... Aladar....adventure...

‘Aladar... Aladar’s New Adventure’

‘Aladar’s watching today’

Aladar’s, what he say there was in his book, right in his favourite book

‘At top of his head there was a loud bang. It was so many...’ ” (wanders away from the recorder...)

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