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 13 December 2007

A few random stories from Dec 2007

Since I won't have time to transcribe much this month, I've decided to skim through the vast amount of recordings I now have of her and post a few that really stand out just through listening to them. Click on the story titles to listen to the story.

Corin and Larry get married??? 2007-12-01
This is a fun story with lots of singing in it :)

Ok, here's the transcript of the above story

TEN! Corin leapt out from his shift! Corin leapt out, accidentally he STAMPED HIS FEET! And Corin got caught by an annoying figure that was Heung. He was from the elletonsting(?) “Extinct?” he said, “Corin’s extinct, and died long time ago now.” He looked at it. “Extinct Corin! Extinct Aladar!”

Larry whispered to Aladar, “Don’t die, don’t die, don’t die, don’t die.” He forced Corin to die, and Aladar was only left. Corin and Aladar died by the evil (untranscribable name!)

Larry looked at him. The aggravating fishtail was beginning to do this story, about Corin and Larry getting married. Corin singed the song.

Hey diddle diddle, of the cat and the fiddle,

Of a never said anything like it

For your grace and for your God

The singing went on and on

Larry, for your God, for the things of you said

For it and for it

According to John, of Larry

Of Larry of a stomp of a story and a war,

Of a corner and a story of a stinging

Of a story of a god of a song of a song

Of a sing of a song of a sang

For your God and for it, and forwards and forwards becker(?)

And for it and for it and for it and for it

The singing went on and on

For your God and thunderstorm

Of it and often

Of a storm of a navy and of a storm of a thing

The singing went on and on

Peace for it

Larry ran out of it

For it and for your God

For it and for Corin to turn turn turn turn turn

Navin(?)

The singing went on and on, on and on

Larry is down in it

But Corin is not

Not me either, not me, not me

Not me, not me, but Corin is down in the dumps

Larry did something and he ran out, and the singing went on and on

Ah stessus suh suh suh, ah stessus suh suh suh

Ah stessus suh suh suh, ho ho ho ho ho ho ho

Heh ho, stessus stoh teh toh

The singing went on and on, on and on, until Corin told what happened long time ago, he went a singing this

Show for it and all your toy(?)

For your God and all’d

All of the things that you did before

But your singing went on and on

The singing went on, on... on and on and on and on, until the whole house was full of singing, that Corin could hear it, coming through the trees and down the garden path and in led garden lane to it, and over the garden path it went. He followed it, in a most serious shape.

It went on and on. On, on, on and on, on and on. On, on, on and on.

For your God and in it

For Aladar is in

For your God and all’d

And the singing went on and on and on until

Stank stank stank

Oh, a hole

Larry looked at it in disgust. “That’s one o’clock,” he wondered to heself, should he put on his coat? Ran off with no coat. “I’m singing on and on later!”



MORE STORIES COMING SOON...

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