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!

Friday 7 September 2007

More Adventures of Aladar, 2007-08-29

Recording 3 of 10 from the 29th August. This one still continues in the vein of a story within a story. The black text is the "container" story, while the blue text is the story within the story that is being "written" by Aladar...


There were no time to lose... the dinosaurs have to be programmed with all these circles and all these little things... killed....did all day live the dinosaurs

(Distracted by the recording device: there will be DEATH coming in your iPod if you put it there. Not the desk there!)

(Back to the story)

No time did it melt, but only singed.... there were bumps in there, bumps on him... then the (indecipherable) eat him

He was dead

Then everybody circled above him, then they stepped on him, push him with, then he say, “(Shocked sound), he’s gone???” said Parasaurolophus

They go to the house, then nobody was there

He circled! And circled and circled and circled, and he was doing some work

After Corythosaurus circled the chick and the (indecipherable) bird, only (indecipherable) and no time

He was scared with his parents because he might, his parents might dead because he might be shaken all of them

“(SINGS) NO TIME HE SAID I,” he said

He went outside

“(SINGS) A NEW A DINE NEE IS WHY IS EVERYBODY SCARED FROM ME,” he singed, “(SINGS AGAIN) BECAUSE MY NEW ADVENTURE! (INDECIPHERABLE)?” said Corythosaurus

They were behind a hill where (indecipherable) lived, and all the fun and all the costumes... no time...

“(SINGS) MY NEW ADVENTURE, SAID ALADAR, I NEVER,” Corythosaurus singed and singed and singed, “(SINGS AGAIN) WHY IS EVERYBODY SCARED FROM ME!! I DIDN’T KNOW THAT OF HIM MAKE SCARED FROM ME! MY TYRANNOSAURUS HAVE DO IT, SCARED OF ME LET OUTSIDE,” he singed

A moment later, there were no time, but only a BOOM!!!! came then EVERYBODY DIED then HAYTCH(?) CAME then EVERYONE is disappeared to a open mountain

By the end one, there’s a bump

OVER THE HILL! And they goed over the hill, and the hill didn’t move... but it moved, only tip... and MOVED, MOVED!!!! It was STEGOSAURUS!

Then they were, they walked over Stegosaurus, then... then didn’t do it

No time didn’t let, “(Sings) For Dimorphodon!!” he said, “You said that a PACK of iguanodons came near him”

Then they looked at Aladar

“Don’t”

“Duck”

“Duck name!” Who was not so loud (indecipherable) iguanodon

There were no time eat, eating iguanodon... there were no time but only maiusaura came near them

He said, “I didn’t know that!” he said

“No, Parasaurolophus, NO, Parasaurolophus, NO, Parasaurolophus you check into the (indecipherable phrase), his mommy’s work”

Sitting in, he go out from his car seat

He didn’t know where he was going at his mommy’s work, yet it was the tree’s house and not in Aladar’s mommy’s house

Tip it (?), in no time they went, with the circus(?) have to learn, about his father own lair, and his grandma

No time, and he turned along, he learned about his father lair, but it was Aladar’s home, lived it in with his parents, long long ago. His parents died, he did get a new parents, but you still asleeping, all night long

After they were sleeping they didn’t woke up, and were sleeping and sleeping and sleeping

Edmontosaurus said, “I didn’t know that!! It is.. Stegosaurus... peeked,” he said

“Touched! So stuffy!” he wished, “I didn’t know that!!!” he said, “and it goed back and sleep,”
he said

“They are new parents... and with new parents, new will gather now... eat..”

“The New Styracosaurus Adventure”

He circled above him, and he.. and he circled above him

“Why is everybody singing around me?” he said

“That why.... because everybody is... is decorating the whole house. Because everybody, all the carnivores were there and all the meteorites were there and EVERYBODY THERE!.... Everybody else was there! All the carnivores singing! Because that why we were singing and dancing and decoration every thingy”

No time, then they looked out for little Cook, to be go and learn about everybody... it’s his grandfather’s yard, and his grandfather and with his grandma and his mama and his daddy and his everything, and his toys too... his books too, then Aladar said, he said, “(Sings) Decorate his house! And he decorates his house, I said decorate his house, get out,” he singed his favourite new song, but nothing happened to (too soft to hear).... only.... it’s moving.... so slow.... no time didn’t look, from distant distant brown sea (?) they get up

They looked off in the night

(long silence)

“You mean those creature looking at us?”

“Who is that?”

“No time...”

“I didn’t know that! I will climb up and see it”

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