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 26 May 2007

Going on a journey, 2007-05-26

This one was recorded onto my MP3 recorder and transcribed from there. The background was very noisy and she was talking very softly at some parts, so I couldn't quite hear what she was saying at those points and indicate them by (indecipherable).

Tick tock tick tock, I am a cuckoo clock (singsong)
Tick tock tick tock, I am a cuckoo clock (singing)
Tick tock tick tock, I am a... (still singing)
(cuts off) this one means...this...
Well... where are we?
Uh-huh... Here
"When you all have to get it", said baby
"Don't mind if you rest"
There lot of people and they say no to sleep
And she woke up
And said it actually a good place to rest
And he woke up too! and said
"What...ARE you doing? All these, all these dinosaurs!
You just, you just, you just go and see us, and mommy"
"And (indecipherable)" said this one, "this one (indecipherable)"
Step in! Find a big place to rest and..(indecipherable)
And what daddy doing?
Give a rest
So good did they find...
They found a big place to rest, and they stopped in a long time
And they saw them, they coming by
And they said, "WHY didn't they do that? Give us a place?"
They shouted, we, we said, and they said
"WHAT? We can do THAT? Or mommy do it?"
And they, they, they, they throw that on mommy
THEY seen what they can hide them
And they saw something, something about THAT
How they go home
They saw something
And daddy said "Get up!" And said
"They saw magic! mouse...
It's a small mouse and she know where's our home"
And she asked, "What are you BIG monster doing here? What YOU are?"
"Not big monster... "
"You are just... that big so so... I mean big so so! Look! So sos!"
"Child, don't be scared!" said mommy
"It's just big guy, it's just big guy"
"Big guy, that big guy, you're a big guy, you're a big guy
And, and.. in this shop"
"But"
"They, they, they are, they are, they are not afraid of you
They are just brave"
And they crept in, and they crept up!
"Pleeeeeease (indecipherable), not our mommy!" And they crept up!
"Not, not, we're not going to find our mommy if we stop just like that
We're going to not rest in one place!"
And they crept up
And iguanodon says "WE! ALL! GOING! into some of the shop"
Every (indecipherable) found it... and they crept in with no socks and with no shoes
And iguanodon says "WHAT? Look! No people? There soldiers???"
And iguanodon says "What? They are soldiers, but there are no people!
How do we talk to people? Maybe the people outside, and talk to them
Maybe we talk to them abooout....
All we have to do is TALK TO THEM"
And they all have step out
And ask the people if they got, but they cannot...
Iguanodon cannot get a ticket because he, because he is a dinosaur
Cannot get the ticket...
AND he got the ticket because he a dinosaur and, and
And they kept him again with the shoes PUT ON
They not shoe put on
"You have to wear shoes!
Because if they don't wear shoes HOW are they going to step in?
ALL we have to do is go out from this place"
(indecipherable)
"Come back!" said baby
"Come back, talk to mommy"
"WE ALL GOING ON A JOURNEY"
"Pick a pack! Pick! Baby..."
"WE ALL HAVE A BELT! Have one, my dear girl"
"Put, we put on", and we stepped in
They don't wear shoes!
They have to wear shoes
But they don't wear shoes
They're mad... they don't!
Don't have about (indecipherable)
"I have to do this...get a bookmark, get a bookmark"
"Then, get a bookmark, then... get a bookmark then
Get a bookmark then"
"We are here"
And they started from the journey
And they saw something...
Magic prints...have to go (indecipherable)
And a battle axe means, a battle axe
And baby pick it up! And say "and this will going home,
And this will going out"
And she said those words
And said "WHAT? ME? Going home?"
And she decide to go home
"I better going home!"
(indecipherable) she picked it up
And said "We have to go home! By ourself, we did"
And she tapping, and run
"FRIENDS!... FRIENDS! CAN YOU COME IN?"
"NO WE CANNOT!"
"BUT WE ARE DINOSAURS!
WE CAN, WE CAN DIE!" ...
"BYE BYE! And see you soon!"
And they started for their journey
And they get a pick,
They started for their journey
And the friends, two friends followed them
And iguanodon
And he talked to his friends and said "go, go"
And he said "go"
EVERYday they talking
And they heard a noise
They heard a noise because..
"Little frogs" said mommy
"And they (indecipherable)" said baby
"And I not see anything" said mommy
"I not see anything" said daddy
Daddy have some, daddy's a rabbit
Daddy's a skunk!
And they see everything, but daddy didn't see anything
Because daddy's a soldier man
He, he clean up everything, because... he not see everything
Maybe you can do a BIG bunch of frogs... crackers
And he tried that
A big bunch of crackers
(indecipherable)
And he dig
(whispering)

Sorry, I think I lost quite a bit... she was talking very quietly for quite a few parts, and the background noise was noisy!

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