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!

Friday 11 January 2008

The Diamond Adventure, 2008-01-11**

This story is a bit confusing because there are TWO characters called Hook in it – one is a dinosaur and the other is a pteranodon. Also, several of the characters are able to morph/change from dinosaur form to human form. She has also introduced many peripheral characters with similar sounding names. In spite of this, the story as a whole is pretty coherent and flows well.


Do listen to her telling this story, her expressions are not to be missed!


Illustrated by Random Hook.

Nodo went to Hook and said, “Let’s go to Sneet Hish and see is he fine with us.” So they went to him, to Yush house.

He wasn’t there, but his mummy was there. His mummy said, “Wait for him in the kitchen.” And they waited and waited until someone knocked on the door.

It was Yush. They went and opened it for Yush. “What you want here?”

“Can you please get us another Hook called Random Hoosh U.U. Hook?” Then he opened his door and found out.... found a tubby little mouse. He squeezed the mouse on a tiny little tip corner on his hat,and RANDOM HOOSH came out!

“That’s strange!” said Hook. “It must be a Random Hook then.”

They went down by the stream and said, “I want to sit here,” said Hook. “So tiring!”

And Aladar said, “Ya! We don’t have a single hin yet.”

They went by a small fair bit fire and cuddled down to sleep. When it was day, Hoon discovered that Aladar was gone. Hook looked around. “Toil(?) well... pretty well,” he said to Corin, “where’s Aladar?”

“Oh, Aladar’s in the... fire!... (Hesitant voice) He’s with... with the fire?”

“But I looked around, but he wasn’t there.”

“He... he... must be there!” He looked around, and he saw ALADAR!!!!!! Sleeping in the fire! He got Aladar just before he went up in flames.

Aladar was sleeping in a stack of hay. And they was treading on, and the hay was full of fire! And he went when he saw Hook, and said, “I want to sleep MORE.” And he LET GO and he ran in the fire again.

“What are you going to do with him? Aladar went home.”

He said, “I don’t know!” Hook was still in the treading down fire, and looking for crazy loud casta(?). He cast a spell on Hoosh, and pretending to be a man, went down to the dust and poofed his way through the big black thorns across the Nineown Open Plains. Hook was still with the apple, eating and roasting it, with hard goods and hard caps and corn(?) gaps, until he was full of gaps.

“Let’s get Zinny, before Hook can go.” Hiss, who was still with Hoon, went to Zinny and said, “Zinny!!”

Hook was still in the maps, looking out for Hoon. Hoon was still with the playmate, kicking out balls and pretending to be a man. Now and again, he looked for Hoon. Hit was still looking for Hoosh, and he looked on and on until the big baps(?) will found him, and catched him in the big bad wolfs.

“Where can we go?”

“Whew! That was close!” They went by a small chain of fire that seeped the night, of the apes(?) getting on them.

‘GET THE FIRE!!!! GET IT, GET IT!!” said Hook. “GET IT! GET IT! Before the monkey tread on us.” And they PUT, put the monkey in the fire, and burned them. With roasted Neef and roasted Mac and roasted Hooks and roasted Naps. And they eat the monkey.

“That’s disgusting!” said Hook.

(To me, laughing: They eat the monkeys, and that’s disgusting.
Me: They’re dinosaurs, right?
B: Ya! So they can eat monkeys.)

“Roasted beef!” said Hook.

“What is beef?” said Aladar. “Hah! No!”

(To me: Aladar’s a boy, so he won’t eat. Aladar’s already a boy, so he’s eating rice now.
Aladar! Aladar is a boy.
Me: He’s no longer a dinosaur?
B: No. So he’s eating rice now.)

“I want to...” he ate rice. Aladar looked all about for his torchlight, but it wasn’t there. He picked up it and shined his torch around. (Softly) It was complete darkness. They had failed in trapping Gus, and he shone... he shined his torch about. They were there. Quietly, they opened the door and found Gus trapped in hearse over a bigger mound cap. They cautiously shined his torch around and saw the next moment he opened and went in the next room, and someone was sleeping there. They cautiously tiptoed along.

“Perhaps... perhaps... perhaps this might come...”

He went by small tread of fire, and opened it. Cautiously he went and he tiptoed by a small tread of fire. He found a slit in it. Cautiously he opened it and saw... Hook, sleeping there.

“Let’s be careful,” he said to Aladar. Aladar looked at Hoon.

(To me: Hoon is not a dinosaur. He’s also a boy. So two of the boys are tiptoeing into Hook. Hook is still a dinosaur, but Yush and Aladar don’t know.
Me: I thought Hook was a pterosaur?
B: Hook is a dinosaur, and Aladar is a boy, and Yush is also a boy. So two boys are looking for the pteranodon Hook.
M: There’s a pteranodon Hook, AND a dinosaur Hook?
B: Ya! So two of them, Yush and Aladar, are both boys.
M: Yush and Aladar are boys, Hook is a pteranodon?
B: Ya!
M: And the other Hook is a dinosaur?
B: Ya!
M: There are two characters called Hook?
B: Ya!
M: That’s confusing.
B: They are looking for the pteranodon Hook now. )

Yush looked for the pteranodon Hook once again. He found him in a quiet room, sleeping by march(?) and fire, (very softly now) and they tiptoed out of his room, and he woke up. Then their leg rushes them and went out of his room and they still cautiously and went down. Then they take a peek... food and no one was there... quietly opened the door... and there stood brave Mr Captain John Smith looking out for them. Hoosh was still taking a peek down at this. This was looked and then they went cautiously out of his room. And they found Hook.

(Back to normal voice). And they went up before Hoon, who was still looking for Yush. Yush went by Aladar and said, “Tch! Brother, come on this way!”

They went to a man that was sleeping in the next room, next door. “This is a quiet ending!” He went by a small tread of fire, and warmed himself up.

“Three tubes!”

“Don’t know!” said Hoon. “Let’s find out!”

They WENT by a small fire and warmed themself.

“It must be this. They must be here already. Ya... they’re here now. They’re here now.”

“They’re here now,” says the one, the one they go for.

“Alright, let’s go,” said Hoon.

Hit was still by a light fire. Went by a big trod by a... and went to a small other fire, that had warmed Hook. They went by a small tread of fire, that led up a small house. Inside was Hoon. Corin looked about and shone his torch. Aladar looked about, when he saw Yush. Yush looked and shined his torch. Three of them, three boys looked around, and the three boys found Hoon.

(To me: Corin is also a boy, so the three boys are looking for something.
Me: For what?
B: There are three boys.
M: Ok
B: And they are looking for this diamond.
M: Diamond?
B: Ya.
M: I thought they were looking for Hook?
B: No, but... and there are three boys and there’s one diamond, alright?
M: Alright...
B: The three boys are these three. They’re looking for this diamond.
M: Who has the diamond?
B: The pteranodon Hook, so they’re looking for him.
M: I see.)

Hook was still stamping, went and looked for the diamond and Hook. “He’s not in this room...”

“I found him! He’s in this room!” said Horsh. “He cuddled up to sleep here!”

They disturbed him and took the diamond. They unwrapped the paper, and found notes written on it. “This could be...”

“Oh!” said Aladar. The three boys locked it in a room and they went in it and locked the door behind them. Hiss was still locked in his prison in the same room that they were in, Horsh laid.

‘DON’T FORGET YOUR ROSES!!!!!”

Hook shushed, and shivered in the cold. And three of them shivered at darkness. Hook shined his torch to see where was the bricks. He shined his torch, and saw... “A RICE BUG!!!!! GOING THROUGH THE TREES!!!”

“(Whispers) Who’s hold them, please (indecipherable as she walks around the room and away from the recorder, acting out this part.)”

“(Sings) Eat the heart and cavern misty!” Hook was still shivered in the darkness, when a small pulse of fire that was my other fire happened, and looking for work.

“(Sings) YABBER RANNY RANNY RAN!
RAN AGAIN IN BADGER SUN!
COME AND COME AND COME ALONG,
Come and come and come with me,
Come and sit by me.
(Silent pause, then continues more quietly).
Leave the horn and cavern steep,
Leave the mountain now.

Hook said, “We’re looking for this diamond. Can you Hook? Tell us where is it? Where is the diamond?”

“We hid it somewhere, but it was gone from our room. We looked. We wanted to put it somewhere. Did you see where was it? It was with me and we put it in your room... and it was gone!” said Hook.

“Alright.”

Hoosh was peeked in... was there still... “Someone must have put it in this room.” He hid it when someone came to look was the DIAMOND still there – it was gone.

“(Deepish voice) Where is my treasure?” said the man gruffly.

(Me: And then what happened? (after a longish silence)
B: And after that it is done already.
M: What do you mean it’s done already?)

“GOT YA!!!!!” said Hook.

He went by a small camping fire, and looked for Hook. “(Same deepish voice) Where my treasure??” and said the man gruffly.

“I don’t have any treasure! Hook stole it from you maybe...”

“(Sings) Lead the lamb and scare.” Hook was still finding out where was Hoon, look for his penetree(?) and found it at last. Hook was still murmuring, when Hoon was still helping for the maps and found it at last. He went to penetrating eyes and said “(Whispers) Hook, my friend.”

THE END!!!

(This section almost seems like an epilogue, but after the first sentence, I can’t really follow all the threads of thought she’s talking about...)

Bethany, who was still under Hook’s spell, went by a small fire.

Tush was still hoping (whispers) Hook (normal voice) coming down. Hoon was still puppet, purposing for look. Hoon was still hoping, by Yush way Icksix(?). Icksax was down in the dumps, by didn’t pinch it in eyes of Hook’s WENT DOWN BY THE INTERSTATE!!! (Small voice) Hoon was still on a dark small tip. He found out that Hoon was a (indecipherable phrase, too soft.) Hoon was still down. Hoon was still haps, by perhaps Hoosh will be amazed.

Hook dressed up as a commoner, went by a fire, then warmed himself and then was dead, and then went down by the Interstate, and no more.

Bethany went to her mummy and said, “Daddy... where’s daddy???”

And then she said, “The End! NO MORE! NO MORE STORIES!!”

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