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!

Saturday 15 September 2007

Something spooky's after Corythosaurus, 2007-08-31

Listen to Bethany tell this story HERE, complete with spooky voices :)


It’s a funny story.


Cook knew. Cook knew it was not looking out, but it was adoring it. It was a customer, not out but only a noise came, a BANG!!!!!!! CAME! THEN IT LOOKED, BUT A CRACK! THEN A BAAAAANGGG!!!!! CAME (laughing). THEY WERE THERE BUT NO TIME. A BAAAANNGGGG!!!!!! ANOTHER BANG CAME. THEN A BANG!!! CAME. BANG! BANG! THERE’S A KNOCK ON THE DOOR!


Then everybody shouted out “QUICK!!! HIDE! HIDE!” And then everybody hided. Then Corythosaurus didn’t hide. (Approx. 15 seconds of indecipherable whispering).


Then a BANG!!!!! CAME (laughs). THERE’S A BANG!!!!! “DID EVERYBODY SETTLE DOWN??? QUICK! HIDE! HIDE!!!!!!”


Then Corythosaurus hided too and Aladar leaving him behind...

No time.... no not nothing else came.. near them. A BOOM!!!!! CAME! THEN EVERYBODY HAVE TO HIDE (amidst laughter). “HIDE!! HIDE!! QUICK!!!!!!!!!!” ANOTHER BOOM CAME, THEN EVERYBODY DIDN’T LOOK!

“DUCK!!!” A BOOM CAME, THEN EVERYBODY SETTLED DOWN, “QUICK HIDE!!!... but not in my skin (?)” Then, everybody was tied together. Then a BOOM!!!!! came then everybody shouted out ‘QUICK, HIDE! HIDE HIDE HIDE!!”

They runned out, and Corythosaurus didn’t look.


“(Spooky voice) Co-ry-thi-sau-rus,” said the noise, said a.. said a voice, “(spooky voice) I hungry, I need to eat meat... because... there no time to lose after the... new nine adventure... of.. my.. new..... (very spooky now) Corythosaurus,” said the voice, said the voice of it.


There was hunting... hunting party.. hunting party! There were.. there were... there were hunting parties nearer Cook’s house and there was Aladar’s house...


Everybody looked out of Triceratops window, after T-rex set the nine open sea serpent door there were sea serpents coming in, AND a nine open wise old man. He kept his long beard, stepped out into his barefoot, and his name was Vaykay.


Vaykay was not looking out for Dig Cook. Dig Cook was not.. he didn’t got a beard. Just went down to his bare shoes and feet. His feet was so much long, you know

(runs away from the recorder to talk to daddy: Daddy you know, there’s an old man. He from the land of Cook McMann(?). Runs back to the recorder vicinity).


And Cook the son was so scared and there was him there. (Indecipherable).

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