<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:42 so anyway how've you been um spending your days auntie ruth well this morning i didn't go out at all really because <{><[>i had a fall you see <[>oh no oh yesterday <{><[>yeah <[>was it <.>yester this morning were <.>you just this morning i just went down to get voc some fresh water in the hot water bottle yeah <&>1:00 and carrying it in you see i had er on that side with my hand held on with my weight on er and the weight of it overlapped turned that thing over <{><[>on its side i just fell down on my side <[>oh no so that was this morning yeah this morning yeah oh right but i didn't get hurt really <.>you <.>you you <{1><[1>get a bit of a fright of course <{2><[2>word but er voc picked myself <.>u er actually er clears throat i i crawled in the rest of the way in here <{3><[3>on my hands and knees and i had to pull myself up on the bed <{4><[4>laughs i'm used to that i've had more than one fall <{5><[5>laughs <[1>no <[2>yeah <[3>oh no <[4>oh no oh that's terrible but <.>you <[5>laughs but it <.>you you don't think <.>you you hurt yourself badly yes i don't suppose i could get up yes could get up you know <{1><[1>that's okay <.>they they want me to <.>stay the doctor wants me to stay in bed to have a complete rest for this leg for a <{2><[2>week or ten days you see <[1>oh <[2>right oh yeah so i'm just trying to <.>do <.>try trying to do what i'm told and <{1><[1>laughs and they don't <.>come they don't come they bring meals in every day though less and them you know different ones emma she comes in sam jackson and steven jackson <.>and and di <&>name each they take a turn bringing <{2><[2>in a dinner to me <[1>laughs <[2>laughs oh good <&>2:00 so i said i'll get meals on wheels oh no no no they knew that i had them before when i went more went in the bucket than went down here so <{1><[1>and they reckoned i've only got a <.>sm very small appetite you see so they said <{2><[2>each would have a turn so each one brings my dinner in each <{3><[3>day <[1>laughs <[2>right <[3>yeah which one of them's <{><[>the best cook <[>so word so who was in today er emma was in today <.>wh <.>wh which one of them cooks best oh i don't know all very nice i <{1><[1>wouldn't say one's better than the other <{2><[2>laughs that would be terrible thing to do <{3><[3>laughs <[1>okay <[2>laughs <[3>oh laughs yes they're very good voc but <.>mary <.>st steven's mary she was in on saturday and she said i know you like fish she said so i've caught some fish so i actually had fish <,> some nice er vegetables i said yes very nice so oh good oh i said what's this it looks like looks nice and spongy looking word she said that's pumpkin and um potato mashed up together <{><[>and i said boy that's a good idea cos it was jolly nice that way <[>oh yeah yeah? cos i'm not terribly fond of spuds really i'm not an irish woman <{><[>i'm a kiwi you see <[>you're not? laughs <&>3:00 at a but yes i had a bit of that and it was quite nice i've never thought of putting a pumpkin together with a pumpkin word still we had a girl that was staying here for a good while er she was er chinese yeah hoy yan her name was she <{1><[1>used <.>t <.>t to come over and learn english her mother and father were teachers in hong kong <,> they were teaching and she came over here to learn english so that she could go back and teach in the school over there <{2><[2>too and the sisters next door were up at the university and met her going up there <,> and er became friendly with her and took her home there to live you know to stay she was staying at some room or something er but the chinese embassy wouldn't let her stay at the convent <[1>hoy yan? <[2>oh right that's right yeah <{><[>you were saying <[>inhales so er they asked us if we could right take her in here and she liked it <{><[>here? <[>so hoy yan was here oh yes she was quite happy she was word but she was a funny girl and she wouldn't eat anything else but pumpkin oh right pumpkin breakfast dinner tea <{1><[1>pumpkin pumpkin pumpkin inhales tom was here in those days he used to tell her oh <&>4:00 you should eat your <.>green why don't you eat your <.>green <{2><[2>no no no i just want pumpkin that's all she said lovely lovely much nicer than china pumpkins she <{3><[3>used to say laughs that's what she lived on hoy yan <{4><[4>laughs yes yes anyway she got her degree anyway she went back i think must have gone back home to teach <{5><[5>i think yeah word she was always oh working had her head down over her books you <{6><[6>know word <.>suppose they say they're like that the chinese people they dig into what they have to do whether it's studying or something <[1>laughs <[2>laughs <[3>laughs <[4>oh well <[5>oh okay <[6>mm how long <{><[>ago was <.>th <[>but she was quite nice we had many a laugh at her but <{><[>er that's cos she was so word she weren't weren't used wasn't used to our new zealand ways either she was crazy in the er crazy on the water inhales that shower out there inhales she'd have two a day you know <[>laughs laughs she was always running in and out with a bucket full of clothes in <{><[>you know washing them laughs <[>laughs oh laughs yes we often talk about hoy yan voc clears throat anyway she went back to china i think after a while i haven't heard anything of her <.>for <{1><[1>word actually there's a lot of people come to this bloody place they say <.>they're they're that thrilled to get here and they're happy when they're here <&>5:00 and something like that comes along and they go away and we never hear about them any more they never come to see you any more <{2><[2>laughs but er word oh well that's life that's human nature <{3><[3>laughs being what it is but the last chap who was here he was staying with for about forty odd years with a woman in the parish someone i knew very well i must admit <&>name word she's got a <.>priest <.>s son a priest too anyway she had to give up her home it was too much for her went to live with her married daughter and he was looking for somewhere to sleep <,> someone someone begged for me to take him here there's plenty of room up said i oh you've got to help people out so he come to stay <,> he stayed for quite a few weeks <,> one day there was a letter on the sideboard ruth i'm er today is tuesday i'm leaving on thursday to er so oh goodness me that's <.>sudden sudden it's a wonder he didn't talk to me about it better his writing it down so anyway that night he used to watch the television a bit with me at half past six watch the news so i said to him what're you going to do you going to a flat or you going to <,> board somewhere he said a very small flat he said <&>6:00 that was all no information whatever but sam told me <,> that he had been talking to him and he told him it was in durham street this flat <{4><[4>and i said there's some awful places up there <{5><[5>he said but that was where he was going to go apparently <[1>yeah <[2>oh no <[3>yeah <[4>oh okay <[5>laughs oh but when i looked out and saw him going there was a big er was it a truckload of furniture whether it was all his or not or whether it was just putting his on as well i don't know but i've never seen him since oh voc but word <{><[>laughs <[>oh that's terrible that was only once though <,> oh the only one i had had contact with and still have contact with as i wrote to her yesterday were ritsons from redwood <{><[>they lived next door <&>pronounced dear to auntie win <[>right oh <{><[>yeah <[>old missus clarence fran aitken used <.>to was a <.>little little boy when she was up there used to run in and out her place a lot and she loved him see but when he grew up and married clears throat and she came down here with dom and er he had a family <,> and er at camp time when <.>h he was a carpenter and there was no work to be got in napier that time everything was closed down not a job to be had <{><[>and he said <.>he he had he wrote to her and said <,> could <.>he <.>friend friend of his had offered him a job here in wellington he was building a big building near the town hall here in the centre of the city and he wanted to know if we could give him a bed he said i couldn't live in a boarding house or anything but er so we took him in and he was here for <[>mm <&>7:00 right months <,> but he used to go home at the weekend get a bus leaving the evening post building at midnight travel all night go home six oclock he'd spend all day saturday and sunday and come back travel all sunday night go to work on monday all the time he was here always went home for each weekend he had a couple of boys and a girl too the girl used to work in the paper up there she was a word when she moved down to napier but the boys were er always playing up having trouble cos one time one week he was here he had a letter from his wife and she was very worried about the boys he said when they were young he had built a hut up one of the trees in the yard or <&>8:00 something and they used to play up there by the hour but this day she said some other boys from down the city with voc down the village clears throat with her boys had got together and they were smoking up there laughs and next thing up went the <.>s <,> the hut in smoke <{1><[1>and she had to get the fire brigade to put it <{2><[2>out <,> laughs so <.>he's oh he was upset about it he said that tree's coming right down he said <[1>oh no <[2>laughs oh no laughs he went home the next weekend he came back and we said did the er word oh it's down he said i've cut it down sawed it down he said all right <{1><[1>that was the end of the hut and the smoking laughs oh yeah word but they were quite nice boys word one day one of them was in trouble again he i think he was down the road long flat road out there and he saw a motorbike leaning against a fence and he jumped onto it and had a ride up and down the street <[1>laughs oh yeah <,> yeah laughs and he was in court laughs <{><[>laughs cost twenty dollars each <[>laughs oh that could have been worse but i heard him say his <&>9:00 <.>wi his mother said he's going to he's got to pay for that himself she said he's got a paper run she said he's <.>got <.>she he's got to pay for that himself she said i'm not paying it laughs how when was that napier mm <.>whe when <.>g oh good few years ago now they'll all be grown up and married now i suppose <{1><[1>the boys but <.>take their father their father was staying here but <{2><[2>stayed here for a long time cos he had to get work here <{3><[3>she used to write and tell him <.>al all this sort of thing <{4><[4>was going on so he couldn't get home quick enough when finally the opportunity came clears throat <&>9:25 <[1>right <[2>right <[3>yeah <[4>word