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 4 October 2007

Featuring parasaurolophus, 2007-09-08

Started recording this well after she’d started.

Long long village, and deinonychus came. Said, “I will knock knock!” Knock knock. He came in, feeling rather sad or something. Or not maybe sad, this is deinonychus, and this is parasaurolophus. And Corin lived in a long long village with deinonychus that morning. He said, “How? Where? Where did you get this one from?” said deinonychus.

“It’s from the Nineown Open Plains,” that he said. “I have to go to the office to play this adventure, so I got it from him. Then I get the girl, then I packed parasaurolophus.”

And parasaurolophus said, “Wow, then where did you get me from?”

I said, “We will be in, we might trotting a horse or something.”

“Wow, I didn’t see you trot a horse this far?”

“Ah, I said I have to get a trotter horse.” So he went out to find a trotter horse, my trotter horse and said, “Do you like this trotter horse that I got for you and for me? It’s your trotter horse. I found him on the main yard.”

“How did you know it?”

“Ah, my mommy said I had to go down to see your horse or something. My mommy said that.”

“Wow! Wow… where did you get it? I want to record you,” he said.

“Ah, you can’t because I’m not telling a story.”

“Ah, sorry!”

“Go! GO Go go!! Don’t pin a bin that looks like a pish live among parasaurolophus mommy today.”

“I was very morning and deepy and VERY housy today.” All the norins and all the ups and all the corins and all the jets and the vans came because it was a sunny morning. And each of them came and up and up and up and everybody saw. Everything came, then they came too.

Theee end.

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