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

T-rex the Peacemaker, 2007-08-31*

Aladar and Corythosaurus have a misunderstanding and T-rex acts as peacemaker...


Listen to Bethany tell this story HERE, complete with funny voices.


“That’s Corythosaurus in a coach!” They were, they were so sharp and so deeper, it was very don’t like it until the whole ground was painful. Until night, it was crying with fear, but they still doing the trap thingymajiggy. It was by the lake.


“HA!!!.... Ha! Ha!” said Corythosaur.


Said Aladar, “(Nasal voice) You found my light!” said he.


“PAH! That noise!” said Corythosaurus. “PAH! Aladar’s noise! He is... his voice is so clear.”


“(Nasal voice) No my, my highness, it’s not so clear. It’s my, my shyness,” said Aladar.


“Nope,” said Corythosaurus.


“My highness... my BANG!!! Don’t do anything,” said Aladar, stamping. He fought THAT!!!!!


“Don’t say that thingymajiggy!” said T-rex to Corythosaurus, “that is not right!... You should not talk to Aladar like that, because he might get angrier and angrier and angrier in that stone that you have hidden him.” He scuttled around him.


He.. he.. he... Corythosaurus was up and fighting. “My.. I was trying to be like.. ALADAR!” said.. said.. said Corythosaurus physically scared.


“Don’t do THAAAAT! Don’t be scared like that, thingymajiggy,” said T-Rex, “that is not right.”

“Elasmosaurus, can you do anything else with this, our friend, Corythosaurus? He want to talk to Aladar!”


“Oh, nope,” said Pteranodon and Elasmosaurus, “we can’t help you.... We have to do some work with our friend, Pterodactylus and Plesiosaurus. We HAVE to, because they need our help.”

“Ahhh. Someone have to get out swim in the sea, to help Elasmosaurus do the work.”


“Ah! I know,” said Corythosaurus.


“We can do anything else,” said Iguanodon.


And Aladar, “Nope! We can’t do that!” he said.


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