<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>1:36 need a <.>dol a few dollops of sun burn cream i would imagine required mm i actually don't know where they fish because <.>they the um thing was in the aotea lagoon you wouldn't imagine there's any fish in the aotea lagoon is that the one that's beside the police station <{><[>between <[>police college mm <&>2:00 yeah in between the motorway and oh yeah <,> <.>perhap there's perhaps there's a pipe underneath the <,> i've no idea the motorway out <{><[>to the sea <[>unless they're just catching spotties unless they tip <,> fish in there <{><[>specially for the day <[>oh i don't know must be some connection because it is it is a lagoon mm i mean the level rises and falls falls mm <,,><&>3 i've taken gina's phone out of her bedroom and wrapped it up and put it <,> in the drawer under our divan <,> <{1><[1>of our bed <,,> it's um i mean she can just put up with that for the week <,,><&>3 <{2><[2>i don't know what we can do actually to make her realise that it's a serious thing <[1>mm <[2>um <.>she what <&>3:00 because she'll just put up with us <,,> telling her off and and raving on and <,,> shrug her shoulders and <,,><&>3 she's not done it before so oh get off oh come on she has so <,> <{><[>not for the whole day <[>not for word not for the whole day but not quite like not quite like that i mean she she has rung in so i mean positive <.>one at least one positive thing rung in when well she'd rung in <.>to she rang harry she rang us she rang just now but she rang sharon when she was THERE yes i realise that yeah like that's <{1><[1>ringing and saying hello i'm at <{2><[2>kilbirnie do you mind if i go to kilbirnie <[1>yeah <[2>kilbirnie laughs true enough but at least she <,,> was telling us where she was well i don't think WE need to make any excuses for her no no i'm not she'll make the excuses for herself <,> she'll say well i did ring in mm <&>4:00 <&>tape turned off <&>12:00 you would have been interested in this house did i tell you about it the one we went to in days bay yesterday you started to <{1><[1>mm mm <{2><[2>you said it was a <[1>mm <[2>tut we went to take the mountain bikes back when we dropped the guy and his daughter off to hospital tut and it was just up from anna's place and so it's sort of built <.>th it's just a little tiny patch of flat land like the size of your garden that the garage sits on my garden oh that's interesting laughs <{1><[1>laughs it needs weeding so it's it's mine <{2><[2>right fine <{3><[3>mm <[1>the garden well it needs weeding <[2>mm <[3>and <,> tut sniffs the garage sits on a small flat piece of land just like the garden at thirty five churchill street <{><[>and there's sort of a little path way that went to the base of the house and the house was set into the hill <[>laughs <&>calls from inside house she'll give it to you tomorrow okay and it must have been four stories i suppose up the bank although it looks as though the bottom stories were just sort of basementy areas mm tut and then there was this um electric <,> i don't know what's it thing what would you call it flying fox oh <{1><[1>a a a um <,> <{2><[2>cable car <[1>what do you call them <&>13:00 <[2>box car thing cable <{><[>car oh right cable car that went up <,,> and we put laughs we put martin in it and half way up we turned it off <[>cable car mm oh you meanie laughs <&>next two utterances addressed to cat davie leave cody alone you'll get a real smack if you do that he was asleep and davie pounced on him he's going to do it again you watch <,,> <&>next two utterances addressed to dog cody oh good on you cody you growl <,> tell her off <,> <{><[>word <[>because he has a button on the thing that <.>w <.>c enabled him to go up and down but the buttons the buttons at the bottom overrode his laughs <{><[>laughs <[>so he started coming down and we pushed the button for up <&>cat meows oh <{><[>oh <[>laughs went back up again <{><[>that's right yeah <[>you meanies was was there anybody at home no mm no well her dad and her daughter and the two sons had all gone to do this big mountain bike run and um his partner had gone off somewhere mm laughs <{><[>mm <&>14:00 <[>gee the whole place was wide open though i couldn't believe it <,> car in the drive and the garage door wide open and go carts and things sitting in there tut and a boat <{><[>a little dinghy thing optimist i mean <[>mm mm one of those little wee tut sniffs would be nice mm mm gosh hutt hospital's terrible though is it oh in <{><[>what way <[>to get to the emergency department you've got to go right round the back and the <.>sign the signage is awful <{><[>it's just terrible <[>oh did these people know where there they were going no no they'd never no oh and then you go into the accident emergency and it's just it's just GRIM it's just <,> <{><[>god nineteen fifties ministry of works <[>mm laughs <,,><&>3 oh <,,><&>3 <&>15:00 inhales yeah <,,><&>3 it's quite nice to live in eastbourne actually on a day like today yes take quite a bit of travelling to work though mm BUT i suppose the um <,> the weekends and the nice nights would make up for it but <{><[>god you'd be you'd be home late <[>must be all right mm <{><[>tut oh no you wouldn't have to no you wouldn't yeah <[>oh i suppose you'd just have to re do reschedule your day mm like mm anna gets anna gets into work at nine but she doesn't go home until six half past six mm and that's all you just reorganise your day mm the things that i do at college i'd come and do at home yeah have a decent study at home mm <,> probably wouldn't be able to afford it tut watch this she's hiding behind the blue bucket laughs jimmy really enjoyed playing with her last night mm he <{><[>did <&>16:00 <[>voc mm <,,><&>3 oh he he um he had her following him for AGES with a <{1><[1>with his tennis and yeah <{2><[2>tennis and things and then he tried to pick her up and she growled and she wanted to bite and i said to him just put her down and forget about her for a little while and then go and pick her up and she'll be all right and that's what he did and he just cuddled her for ages <,> she just has to have a clear division between play and i suppose <{3><[3>her word <[1>playing tennis <[2>mm <[3>here she goes again like a child <,,> she's pretending she's not interested in cody laughs <,,> and she'll go <{><[>pounce <[>her ears going back again <,,> hey we should put something nice in that dragon pot yes it needs repotting i'll i um <{><[>cut back that i had a daisy in there oh we did have a a um <[>what did we <&>17:00 put in it <,> originally cos that patepatete thing was in it wasn't it was that in the dragon pot no that was in the um in a wine barrel oh that's right no um it did have something that was supposed to have flowers and then have purple berries on it but it never ever did anything and then i put that marguerite daisy in there which i cut down the other day cos it was all <,> dying <,> at the top <,,><&>5 perhaps that should be our winter redo all the pots and things put a few pots around to to do sniffs <{><[>is somebody having a barbecue <[>mm i don't know funny smell no it's not a barbecue smell it's more like a sniffs clothes dryer going too hot <&>18:00 <,,> on a day like today <,,><&>5 i don't think that that crab apple's going to have any decent crab apples on it this year by the looks of it <{><[>they're small <[>where's my phone <&>18:12 <&>This section is not transcribed as it is a conversation between A and the daughter <&>19:00 not quite a stomp laughs <,,><&>3 she knows jolly well <&>sound of plane flying overhead tut that plane looks as though only one of its engines is going laughs <,,><&>12 <&>plane obscures speech well shall we start cooking some tea <,,> it's just about that rice will just about be cooked <{><[>i would think the rice is cooked is it okay <[>the rice IS cooked voc <{><[>i suppose we could do the kebabs on the barbecue if you wanted to but it's <[>oh we might as well hardly worth it i mean would we set the table out here in the sun we could just <{><[>sit in <[>we're not going to have sun much longer it's twenty past six what time did we eat last night twenty to seven <&>20:00 oh yeah it was quite pleasant out here then wasn't it <,,> tut no i think we sit inside <,,><&>3 mhm <,,> it'll take what eight minutes or so to cook those <,> kebabs i suppose won't it <,> brush them with some <,> hoisan sauce or something to give them some flavour <,,> mix up some hoisan sauce and some soya sauce cos they haven't marinated have they they've just <,,> tut it's all under control shar oh right fine okay if you've got it under control right i'll back out voc laughs <,,><&>11 <&>21:00 what happened to the washing it's still in the bath tub tut and there's another load and that's word not out word <,,> it's a fine night it'll be just about dry in the morning <,,><&>4 must do something about this ugly clothes line before it <{><[>falls over <,,> don't know what else we could do though <,,><&>4 do you <[>mm quite nice to have a extended one that didn't have to <&>microphone noise obscures speech which you didn't have to didn't have to have out all the time yes but where would you have it so it was in the sun <,> yeah that's mm that's a problem isn't it <{><[>mm <[>i mean if you brought <&>pronounced bought it from the dunny window <,,> mm and had a post standing out here somewhere or even on to the fence mm <,,> bit <{><[>sun um <&>22:00 <[>yes that's exactly right mm unless you got <{><[>yeah <[>if <.>w once the shed got built over there you could actually <{><[>have it so <.>that <[>laughs once <.>the <{><[>if if if if the <.>sh <[>once once IF the shed gets built you could have it going from the shed to a pole in the garden which wouldn't look so bad and then you could have something growing up the pole <,,><&>4 <&>sighs you could have it coming to <.>the to a pole in <{><[>the corner here <[>perhaps we should just dry everything in the dryer and be done with it laughs <,,><&>3 wonder where that pipe goes <,> tut the two black pipes that go down to the wash house mm wonder where that metal one goes <,,><&>4 probably a wet back on the the old <.>st um <,,> no it's too far over isn't it <,> for a wet back on the <,> old <{><[>fireplace <[>that black one sorry probably doesn't go anywhere goodness <&>23:00 probably used to go into the old wash house into <.>the oh no it would have gone into the dunny <,> did it have it had hot water into the dunny? word <,,> don't know when that bit was added on though do we <,,> it was certainly <.>very wouldn't have had room for <.>ev for anything more than a toilet in there it's so tiny <,,> it's all it would have been <{><[>it wouldn't have had a <[>tut just a cold water pipe type a cold water <{><[>pipe <[>voc yep so i wonder when they did the um did the lean to <,,><&>6 tut cos it must have <{><[>been just a <[>in word before nineteen fifty two mm <,> oh yeah mm in the nineteen thirties i would have thought mm <,,><&>8 <&>24:00 i wonder if jimmy went and collected his <,> lotto winnings today <{><[>laughs laughs <,> it would have been quite nice if it had been a bit bigger <[>laughs mm <,,><&>6 then it would have been more use laughs <,,><&>17 <&>25:00 it's called long companionable silence word laughs is that what it's called laughs do you want the rest of this wine before i finish it oh yeah do you want a taste of this wine before <{><[>i finish it <[>oh i laughs it's quite <{><[>nice <[>go on it's all what is it villa maria chardonnay <,> oh thanks <,,> mm you offered me a taste mhm <,,> some taste it was a glug mm <&>25:36