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 1 August 2007

Hyenas appear, late-July 07

There they go out in the place
And the place they know they will stay, in the morning sun, in the outside today
Is it in the backyard? Coming outside? In the garden?
Hyenas! Hyenas coming in the backyard! Hide, hide!
Where they come.... the hyenas eat!
Hyenas, hyenas, so I’ll look for my own mother
And I look for the hyenas
So the hyenas catched out with those...
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