<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>3:12 she was ACTUALLY a <.>very well in her own way a very attractive girl yeah yeah well <{><[>i <.>mean <[>she used to present herself very very well and she was <{><[>very young <[>she was so young yeah yeah she was very young but she struck me as being typical of a lot of um english women there who felt they had to be a lot <.>more more mature <,> <{1><[1><.>than than their actual age you know they were just <.>forced they weren't allowed to be young girls they had <{2><[2>to be women immediately <{3><[3><.>and <[1>than they were <&>4:00 <[2>yeah <[3>but mentally she was <{><[>i mean she <.>couldn't she couldn't have coped with emotionally what she would get into <[>yeah she was a KID mentally that's right yeah mm no she had <.>some i was always very envious of all the beautiful things she had jewellery clothes oh can't say i <{><[>noticed <[>and <.>us and us FRUMPY old kiwis yeah hopping on the old tube every morning looking like god knows what with a nice big coat to cover what we were wearing <,> all we could afford yeah you know cos we really did live from week to week <{><[>as far as money went <[>yeah yeah <.>what's what's the underground like now you were saying that <.>it's it's been modernised quite a bit and er i thought it was much cleaner much cleaner like just the victoria line that's just a lot <{><[>cleaner <[>about the same i thought yeah do you oh it <.>always they were always so disgusting to me and always smelly <.>and nice that it's cleaned up its act a bit <,> <{><[>word <[>tut you don't notice any new buildings there <&>5:00 at all in london it's still sort <.>of i noticed a difference in the people there a BIG difference word like they've <.>do redone a lot of the <.>pl flats in maida vale <{1><[1>it's a very expensive area you should see the CARS b m ws everywhere <{2><[2>jags word <[1>oh yeah <[2>so it's been quite sort of yuppiefied oh YEAH yeah the cars and the people too <,> word <,,> really oh yeah so london word <{><[>anymore oh <[>no no yeah <.>that that was london to me was the character of the place but it's got <{><[>word <[>so it's becoming less representative of england than it was before yeah oh it was really changed in that four <{><[>years for me <[>yeah my brother <{><[>was over in greece um <,> you know a couple of months ago and he was saying that um you know crete where he went there were a <&>6:00 lot of east europeans working in the restaurants you know people from poland and yugoslavia and that <[>it's changed aha you know <.>they they're really the poor people now <.>that <{><[>so instead of getting west indians and er <,,> you know <.>at at the bottom of the social rung <.>if if you like the er you're getting a lot of east europeans now doing a lot of the menial jobs in europe <[>yeah yeah cos they're just flooding into <.>the the richer yeah countries you know <.>and so you know i suppose you'll <.>s you'll see a lot more eastern europeans <.>in in england too now mm tut he does a lot of trips your brother doesn't he yeah yeah <.>he he goes over <.>at well i mean you know he's paid off his house now and er <{><[>i suppose <[>gosh a house in <{><[>mount vic eh <[>yeah yeah and er <.>he's <{><[>he's just um he just goes overseas all year <[>oh yeah it's good he doesn't <.>y i mean if you talk to him all the countries he's travelled yeah <&>7:00 really interesting he doesn't seem to enjoy it as much as he used to though <{><[>like he went <.>back <[>does he always go on his own yeah usually um but er <.>he he er he didn't enjoy his trip to greece so much this time <{><[>the reason he <.>went <[>oh i thought that would be sort of semi home <.>but oh i don't know i mean you know it's um <,> yeah i mean certainly <.>that's that's our sort <.>of it's his heritage and that but er <,> <.>it you know <.>you he feels that he's got less in common with the people over there every time he goes over and <{><[><,> well it's more <.>distant the lifestyle too <[>mm yeah but you <.>know so he's always glad to sort of get back home yeah but <.>th this time round <.>it he just didn't seem to enjoy it so much <{1><[1>and of course the weather too <.>w it was you know they're having a bad <,> bad summer in europe this year <{2><[2>the um <[1>how long did he go for <[2>mm yes yeah <{><[>laughs <[>yeah they they they had very cold weather down in crete yeah so we didn't <.>actually have never been to greece <,,> you <.>went you went to spain quite a bit didn't you <&>8:00 <&>section not transcribed as other people present in the room join the conversation <&>8:52 yes the old grey skies in england it rains <&>9:00 yeah it wasn't cold <{><[>word still lovely just about tropical <[>it <.>doesn't no yeah yeah word <{><[>word <[>at least you didn't have the wind though you didn't have <.>the <{><[>the old sharp southerlies and er <[>mm no it was actually i <.>was was warmer in up in london than <,> canterbury word but wales was really you know chilly <,> at times and it <{1><[1>was a shame because we had all these ACRES and acres of land to walk around <{2><[2>and we couldn't get out <[1>yeah <[2>yeah yeah you couldn't yeah get OUT there <,,> yeah especially with the kids couldn't have them getting wet they'd be soaking word so we just did go for a few walks went to see they've got some badger sets on the farm tut oh yeah yeah and there's enormous great holes into the ground <.>and and the kids were fascinated by them mark's STILL talking about it and <.>there's <&>10:00 there's <.>hol EVERYWHERE they're quite dangerous really because they're so DEEP yeah and you can see them at night apparently like <{><[>if you're silly enough to go out at night you might see them <[>voc they come out oh <{><[>gosh <[>quite interesting <.>what <.>what what does larry's parents have on the farm do they have any live stock on the farm at all it's all grass let sorry it's <{><[><.>all <[>it's all grass let <,> to various farmers oh i see and um they've got sheep mostly oh okay <,> so the one that they're on <{><[>the actual FARM <[>so there's no CROPS <.>it's it's just basically <{><[>sheep <[>no yeah mm the farm that they're on is more than two forty acres <.>that's that's quite big that yeah there's one that's bigger three hundred acres which is let to the council they can't touch oh what is it kind of let to the council for <{1><[1>perpetuity or two or <{2><[2>something <[1>hundred YEAR <[2>yeah hundred year lease or something it's <{><[>only just started <[>yeah it's <{><[>outrageous that <[>oh it's SO stupid yeah you know and they had to take it to <.>ar they had to take it to arbitration the farm they're <&>11:00 ON to get <.>the <,> the rents increased mm cos they were so incredibly low they're just nothing yeah and that costs a lot of money to go to arbitration that's right and the same would apply for the council they would have to spend a lot of money <.>to to get that arbitrated as well so i don't know i think <.>they've she sort of disregards it as not hers because they're earning so little off it that's right <.>they they don't have any sort <.>of <{><[>don't benefit from it yeah <[>they can't sell it they've got <.>to the council can buy it the council can <{><[>buy it <.>at at THEIR PRICE <[>at ten percent yeah it's got a roman fort on it in ruins really yeah it's very good land word the council won't sort of oh <.>an and how <.>d does that come through your mother or your father's family <.>the <.>the the er <,> <.>m mother's family his mother's family yeah yes <.>e they got half <&>12:00 each mother <.>got <,> his mother got half and his STEP FATHER got the other half so tut she's got to NOW buy him out to get a whole farm of her own so the three farms she's got to sell one farm yeah to buy the one that they're living on totally and they'll just leave the other one for the council for the time being that's what they're trying to do at the moment it's <.>all it's really complicated <{><[>legally over there it's <.>all much more than HERE what you can and can't do <,> so <[>yes yes it's um what they're <.>doi they spend thirty thousand pounds well they take a hundred YEARS to sort of unravel all the legal claims <.>and well yeah it's so <.>compli they've spent thirty thousand pounds on the house they're living in so obviously they don't want him <,> having a half share in that they want that to be their home but at the moment even though they've done these renovations HE still OWNS half of it yes he's a joint owner yeah word farm house <&>13:00 yes but then THEY'RE joint owners of HIS farm aren't they yeah yeah so it's yeah <{><[>they're the joint owners of everything together <[>they're <.>the that's right yeah <,> and he's <.>the <{><[><.>just <[>and he lives next door does he no he lives in <&>name of town which is the nearest township and he's <,> seventy nearly <.>eighty eighty two and does he have children or that <.>or he's about to remarry laughs <{1><[1>laughs but that not good on him because it really complicates things because if he remarries obviously his WIFE is entitled if he falls off his perch <{2><[2>which is by the look of him quite likely <{3><[3>laughs laughs and oh she's a chamber maid <{4><[4><,> of forty <[1>good on him good on him <[2>laughs <[3>might have a short married life <[4>oh yeah oh yeah oh with two um voc three um sons who are <.>in are <&>14:00 andy's sort of age illegitimate sons illegitimate sons and rebecca <.>it just making her hair stand right up on end oh yeah she's quite devastated <{><[>by this <[>must be after his money well you know a little fall down the stairs <{><[>might be <.>a <[>that's right <{><[>that would <[>in order tut she's forty and he's <.>eight yeah he's double her age <,> so it's <.>all <,> they were invited to the wedding while we were there rebecca very politely didn't what had happened word she just declined it quite politely yeah i mean the fact that it <.>was he WAS married to her mother <.>and and she was a witness at THEIR wedding she said she just <.>couldn't couldn't you know her mother would just turn in her <.>gr grave to think that word yes so it's quite sad really because i think really <,,> <.>he he's just marrying for um company mm <&>15:00 just for <{><[>companionship yeah <[>what else could he get married for laughs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs <{><[>laughs <[>just companionship and that but she might have an ulterior <{><[>motive eh <[>he's <.>probably he's probably making up for lost time don't you think oh word well <{><[>how long was he unmarried <[>word laughs like <.>how how long had he been living on his own oh well she's only been dead for four years she died when we were over there last time that's enough to make anyone laughs feel unwell they met when she met mark and then she died the next day <{><[>really how awful <[>laughs good old marcus <{><[>laughs oh <[>laughs she was a bit of a funny old bird i'd say laughs never mind <,> about to say <{><[>word <[>well i'm sure when you go back there in another four years time there'll be another twist to the tale yeah yeah i could <{><[>just about write a book about it <[>word yeah it's got to be a new zealander to describe things <{><[>yeah <[>yeah <,> the worst thing that can happen really is if you waste all your money on <&>16:00 lawyers' fees when you know it's something you want to sort out amongst yourselves without having to go to the courts well at the moment they're just leaving it all word they've had to have professional advice all along the way yeah it's costing them a fortune <.>that that they haven't got <,> and although they've inherited the land they <.>really tut that's right they haven't got anything back from it they own a piece of paper with something on it but <.>that's that's it <,> <.>the the actual family used to own the whole ROAD that they live in and <.>h generation after generation has <,> had to sell off to pay the you know the tax on <.>the they pay the estate duty that's right and now they're down to three farms <{1><[1>it's incredible and the BEAUTIFUL land that they've sold <{2><[2>and that people have you know built these MANSIONS on it there's all these <.>three <{3><[3>his grandmother used <.>to used to SELL SELL pieces of land for next to nothing and then they'd go and put a mansion on it <&>17:00 <[1>yeah <[2>mm <[3>is that right