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!

Thursday 9 August 2007

The Very Last Days, 2007-08-07

LISTEN TO BETHANY TELL THIS STORY HERE


And Aladar said “I love to leave my bones there!!!.... it’s MY bones, I’m making a fossil...”

Then Tyrannosaurus Rex came, then “Peace for all!” he just chant it out, “Tyrannosaurus Rex?? Don’t sneak my child!”

“Alright!” said Tyrannosaurus Rex, “I won’t!”

“DADDY!!!! SNACKS!!!!” Aladar shouted out

“LONG NECK!!!!!! LONG NECK get SOME DINOSAURS! Have to reach the top of the tree, get it down for me!!” he shouted out, pointing his (indecipherable)

Then, stegosaurus reached it with his hind legs

Then, he arranged it out, “OH! There you are!!!” said stegosaurus, this to Aladar, “I’m content” (humming)

“A little hook by the bench!” Aladar shouted out, “A little hook by the bench! A LITTLE HOOK BY THE BENCH!!....it’s getting out”, Aladar shouted out

And then CAR came out...and it was...it’s who...he’s so blue and he’s so red and he go, and he so blue, and he go very fast, then he (indecipherable) and he got a number

Then, Aladar said, “Who’s this?”

“I know!” said Protosaurus

“I don’t know!” said Corythosaurus, “I got only one star...”

“I don’t remember,” said Compsognathus

Thinking about at home, he have leaves in the tree...at night time... and he’s feasting beside of his BED, there... beside of his BED

He’s there now... so he woke up, by a noise

Then the noise waked him, then they stiffened up then, they heard it again, then Aladar pitched the, the icon again, THEN...the others he heard a loud BANG again which.... which the OTHERS they squished him and don’t know what (then whispers) happening”

So, the lemur was there, then Aladar pitched his knife

“He (indecipherable) to practise dancing”, said Tyrannosaurus Rex

“Who’s doing my brother?”

Tyrannosaurus Rex (whispers next)come (normal voice again) eat his brother...

Tyrannosaurus Rex eat his brother...

Behind! Styracosaurus!

AH! Some say dinosaurs (indecipherable)

How many dinosaurs live today?

But some dinosaurs died...

And some dinosaurs lived

And some dinosaurs singed, stegosaurus singed

Then carnivore (indecipherable)

Diplodocus said, “Noooooo, never!”

They were playing a game, and the sunshine comed out in the evening

Then, Aladar said, “I WIN!!!!”

They going the other, the other also sell

Then they played, they choose another game

Then he played FISH game!

“Fishing up and down” (singing), he singed, “fishing up and down” (still singing), he singed again

Lightening the other who were not singing

(Aggresive voice) Then Aladar SAID “DON’T BUY BEE BEE EE EE ZEEE”, he shouted out

He singed again, (indecipherable) was a slow one... it was not another one, it was just a slow one

But ALADAR shouted out, “MY SHADOW! MY SHADOW! MY SHADOW!”

He stopped again, then... another CAR came! It was so MANY! So many cars came!

And Aladar said, “Well... how can many, deal with so many.... so many CARS!!! Just like that!”

He... “We will pick it up OURselves!” said the cars

“You not pay yet!” said the cars, “it was too HEAVY.... youuuu need a fireman to carry it”

“ALL RIGHT!” Aladar shouted out

After lunch, then he saw them, tap tiptoe tiptoe tiptoe and then... they was (indecipherable phrase) the fireman, no one eat it... nobody (indecipherable) was going about tiptoing

No more CARS coming...

“AH I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!! A (INDECIPHERABLE) CAR CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!”

It was them, then they were, and then it seemed...there she was, then Aladar singed, “(singing) We are wanders in the sea, stegosaurus, now you know these things”

He listened, then was so terrified

Then, he singed again, “(sings) We are near, going to cross (indecipherable), (indecipherable) are singing, to give us two song”

Stegosaurus listened

THEN, dilophosaurus came

Then it’s (whispers next) styracosaurus (normal voice) UP, and styracosaurus, “Get out of MY behind! We...get!....my brother out!”

Then they caught out (phrase obscured by external noises) and his brother, then he will stay...out

(Sings, indecipherable phrase)

“Are you crying????” Aladar said

ALADAR! The Adventure!!!

The dinosaurs said...(indecipherable whisper)

Dinosaurs challenge his brother, styracosaurus!

Ladybird

“Is Styracosaurus getting a bad feeling today?” he shouted out, and he shouted out, “IS EVERYBODY DOWN???.... THERE’S SOMEONE!!!!.... do you know what to do?”

“NO!” Aladar shouted out, “THERE’S SOMETHING, ANOTHER ONE! ANOTHER ONE! SO MANY CARS! WHO ARE THEY???” Aladar shouted out

(Screams loudly) said Aladar

“(Soft scream) Nooo!” said a no, said Corythosaurus

“(soft squeal) Yeeess!” said Compsognathus

“Nooo!” said the others

“Yeeess!” said (indecipherable)

“Nooo!” said (indecipherable)

Diplodocus (high pitched squeal)

“(Squeals) Shoo!” (indecipherable) said the others

(Squeals) said (indecipherable)

(Squeals) said Lightning

(Squeals) said Compsognathus

(Squeals) said Aladar

(Squeals) said Lightning

(Squeals) said the Fish

(p.s. sorry for only writing “squeals” in the above exchange – she’s actually squealing words out, but I couldn’t quite catch each one)

(Squeal) said Aladar, “This, a (indecipherable) place...(indecipherable phrase)”

(More squeals)

“HEH??? Then stop! Stop doing that!!” said Aladar

“Don’t! Don’t, don’t..” in a small voice, “you might get sick!”

“ALRIGHT!!!” said (indecipherable). “Should, just stand still and didn’t move”

Then the others were ready, but Tyrannosaurus Rex won’t stand still with, with the other dinosaurs

THEN... a loud bang came from outside noise, then Aladar heard another noise came from, came from....(indecipherable) door, door! Door! DOOR!” (Cracks herself up laughing!)

And Aladar get his knees up! That knees, he shout “Dinosaurs were up!” Then it was the herbivores. There was a meteorite coming, then they jumped in the earth, then they get in the water, then they jumped in the water, then they, it was swim in the chill come in

All was them, then, diplodocus said, “Then! You... then, dinosaurs came”

Then they paused and triceratops came... and stegosaurus came, and all the others came!!

Then they shut Tyrannosaurus up

And dinosaurs lived, (gasps) but... but that here!! Then they saw the meteorite, then they hear the meteorite... this meteorite

“(Sings) Are you doing it” said Corythosaurus

“(Still singing) star is growing, yes it’s fine, star is growing, mm mm mm”

Aladar said, “No, stegosaurus, don’t do that.... don’t sing!”

“Alright!” said stegosaurus, “I won’t”

Then another DINOSAUR came and (whispered phrase, can’t catch it)

And Aladar said, “Don’t... don’t...”

Theeere... dinosaurs died.... ALADAR was in the dinosaurs family, then he DIED

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