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!

Tuesday 1 January 2008

Scuffling and Scuttling, 2007-11-17

Listen to her tell this story HERE


Corin destroyed the eckle(?) and Larry being caught. So then Corin was so fierce! And he’s so scary. Also Yush wasn’t with them, because they had put the lid on, covered was over Larry, and Corin said, “What’s over there???.... ALADAR!”

Aladar scuffled about in a field where he was surrounded. He was scuttling about day and night. He was scuttling in a field with his friends, the other ones. “Let’s go and see,” said Larry. But Larry and Corin got caught and Corin said, “LET HIM GO!!!”

“I DON’T WANT!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING????” Corin shouted at the man that caught Larry. He’s so scary for the man.

Kush lurched and put a branch on here, Corin climbed the branch. Larry and Aladar climbed. Aladar and Corin pushed the branch on the man and then got out. So the man, he was just standing there alone for heself.

“NO ONE COULD BE LIKE THAT!” said Chuss.

“NO!!!” said Corin.

“NO!! I had bring TERROR,” said Kush.

“I also!” said Larry.

“You two... you three have bring terror?” said the others in dismay. “How you can kill a man like that?”

“We did with the tree trunk to push him and he died...”

“Oh no!!” said Chuss, “that’s scary!”

“Men is not scary... they are surviving at that time of the year and the day, and night and day. And I got out... for you... I got out for you! Check us later, when you check out.”

“Can I check out?” said Chuss.

“I couldn’t!” said Den.

“Bush!” said Tin.

“I don’t know,” said Larry.

“WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!.... MUMMY!.... WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO MUMMY!”

“We use the scuffling about Corin to come,” said Tin.

“Tin, don’t do that!” said the mummy.

“Let’s recourse(?) because class(?),” said Chuss.

“Poock!” said Tin. “ARRGGHHH!” said Tin. “I don’t know what to do!!” said Tin, said mummy calling them.

“WE COULDN’T!!!!” said Pip. “WE COULDN’T, WE’RE NOT READY YET!”

“ALRIGHT!” said Tin’s mummy. “Let’s go!”

Corin went to a big junk yard. “This is not cool,” he said to Larry. “Let’s go back to the others and discuss about Chuss.”

Chun wasn’t discussing about all the things, so Lun couldn’t do anything about all the room. “Let’s hear him scuffling about, in all directions and corners,” said Larry, “then he will know us, and he will know that we are watching, scuttling up.”

They watched Hung as he was scuffling about, all his discussions...and looking for a clue. “I found a clue!” he said to the others. “Look, what is it?”

“Aladar, don’t make a dush(?) like that, you might collapse and fall.”

“Alright,” said Aladar. Aladar keep scuffling about in the woods.

The others said, “He must be a larger thing, when he scuffling about in the woods, somewhere about. Let’s go and scuffle him.” And they scuffled Larry, and then went out.

“That was a close kick! We should go into boarding school before Mr Goon comes and catches us.”

They went to boarding school, over many years ago, and went home down a street path that led to Shakaboom’s house, late. “We don’t know what is that!” said Bets.

“Over there!” said Pip, “Look over there!!!”

Woodcutters were cutting up on a trunk, where two lids came over another lid. There someone was scuffling about, on his four legs. “Maybe that Larry,” said Chuss, “should go and pounce on him.”

They pounced, and pounced on the man that was scuffling about. Then went, “We couldn’t die,” said Larry. “Over there, look! I was scuttling about... Corin!.... let’s go and pounce on him,” said Larry.

And they pounced on Corin, and Corin said, “Oh no!... Let’s not do that. To some other people, they might be bad to us!”

“Just checking, “ said Chuss. “You check at the end of the book when we finished scuttling about the boarding school.”

They went to Luss, said, “Boarding school is over. We want to discuss about all the things that we did before that. Can we go teacher?”

The teacher said yes, so they went out of boarding school. And Shush shot... Corin shot into something. “Ouch, it’s poking me!”

“What is it???” said the others, delighted.

“It’s a mystery!!!!” said Larry.

“OH!” said Bets. “I love to solve mysteries!”

“Keep quiet!” said Pip. They all stand still. In a myrrh(?) computer(?) shape, that Corin couldn’t believe his eyes. There was something moving in the shadows! Over on a rocky lid, on a spot on a nearby rock. It was scuffling about everywhere.

“What are we going to do???” said Corin. “We’d better put a rock on it!!! Before it catches us!”

It was Mr Goon. They put a stone on him. “Ouch! Ouch!”

Hung said, “Heh heh heh heh! That wasn’t cool!” Hung lurched along a branch that led on a rocky stone. He pushed it at the scuffling Mr Goon.

Shouldn’t was able to believe his eyes when he saw a big monstrous T-rex coming out of the shadows. “T-rex, don’t do that.” The good T-rex, “DON’T DO THAT BAD T-REX! Don’t eat us!”

“NO!!” said Pip.

“NO!!” said Larry.

“NO! NO!” they all shouted at, they all angry at the bad T-rex because it came and it wanted to eat them, so they all angry at him, including Bets and Fatty.

Buster was growling like a near in the machine, so they all angry. Everyone is all angry at the bad T-rex.

Corin and Stoong wasn’t happy. “WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!” said Bets. ‘DON’T AGGRAVATE US!!! DON’T ANGRY US EITHER. DON’T DO ANYTHING THAT’S ANGRY US BAD T-REX... DON’T!!!!”

“DON’T!” said Fatty.

“NO!!!” said Larry. “DON’T EAT US!”

“WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO THAT!!” said Bets. “NO, NO!!! WE COULDN’T DO THAT! NO!!!! DON’T EAT ONE OF US, DON’T DON’T!!! IT’S TERRIBLE! We will have no one to care for us if you eat all of our family. We will be all alone and you might eat us too. Please don’t eat anyone.”

“This T-rex is a harmless one. He wouldn’t bite you.”

“HOONG! NO, PUT THE TREE ON HIM, before he eats all of us down.”

Yush put a tree as he went on a big stony cliff. All of them were sitting on a bench somewhere. “It’s hot,” he said. “I’m hot and tired so I have to come here to you.”

And they all sat by side by side, and Corin discussed, “Do you think we have to go home later? You’re feeling hot and tired. Let’s go back to boarding school and sleep.”

They went back to boarding school, very long time ago, at the Interstate with their Uncle by the same day. So they go to the Interstate to get some news about all the things that they did before. Before long the dawn is over, treading like a yus(?) near somewhere over house Hoong. Dawn was treading through the trees. And birds singed in the branches below, all they singed.

I FINISHED!!!!!

1 comment:

Lorraine said...

"Dawn was treading through the trees" - wow!! Other favorites were "they said in dismay" and "That was not cool." This was definitely an energetic one!