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

The homicidal dinosaur, 2007-08-12

Outside, outside in the north end, there was trees and faraway islands and dark rolling seas and that rivers of their banks

The worries was, was palaeontologists, they (indecipherable) of the dark answers

They, they were looking out... out for predators

But no other, not you should look out for predators

There was always predators in this forest, there was always predators.. always, always predators... there are always predators, always always predators

The dinosaurs they have hidden there, they have hidden their (indecipherable) which out of the woods, it was still alive

It killed everybody, he.. she killed everybody

At first she killed Aladar... she’s a dinosaur, but she killed every dinosaur and every each, every each of the dinosaurs have been killed of her

The next morning she came near them, then where she bit of fighting with them then she died

She died...no more her, said Lightning, said Aladar

‘She gone now... Yippee!’ said all the dinosaurs, ‘she’s gone! No more of her’

She was, she was crying, because she want to, want to be alive and kill everybody so everybody want to be dead! They haven’t be dead before, in a open field, they haven’t yet

Destroyed Aladar’s... Aladar... Aladar’s mercury (?), the mercury (?) to solve the problem of the new adventure

He was so so so (indecipherable) till the ice sun in the black sunshine, then there nothing was sun outside

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