<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>1:20 the thing with this stuff is that when you rub it in you know how you rub in liniment mm and your skin goes bright red <{><[>like it's burning well this doesn't do that <,,> so it must really soak in <,,><&>10 <[>yeah it's on the <,,> the <,> pelvic bone hip bone mm pelvic bone um <,,> <&>2:00 yeah it must have been all that twisting eh must have been all that twisting yeah <,,> mind you did you have a sore back when you woke up yep um yesterday morning yeah you did yep might have been sleeping on the floor in the marae well i was <.>h on the floor itself tut you weren't even on the <{1><[1>mattress? well no wonder you got a sore <{2><[2>back then <[1>no <[2>cos you know how the <.>ma when you sleep between two mattresses up those <{><[>mattresses move <[>oh yeah i i was on the floor oh <{><[>well <[>now it could have BEEN that yeah <,> the other thing is you could have got a chill in your back mm <,,><&>3 so there was just you and tawhai laughs <{><[>slept in that huge marae laughs <[>me and tawhai yeah he was being sick laughs <{><[>laughs <[>voc well he can run he ran to that toilet i don't know if he made it did you tell him how fast <{><[>he could run i bet he surprised himself mm <,,><&>3 and cos he managed to get up and go <&>3:00 <[>i told him i won't mind you being sick can just imagine him though <,> voice from out of the dark <{><[>over here lad laughs <[>laughs probably thought oh GOD what have i done <{><[>laughs oh was he coming in to go to bed <[>yeah yeah oh right mm <,,> oh <&>tawhai <{><[>tut what's he gonna do without a job <[>word yeah <{><[>yeah cos thursday he finished <[>tut oh he must be pretty good at what he does though he's been in that industry a long time he said something about him being set up tut mm and so don't i don't know what happened originally i didn't ask yeah <,,><&>5 cos he fell out with the last guy <&>4:00 that at the <&>name of pub <{1><[1>i think yeah but i went out to see him <,,><&>7 tut oh i laughed when he was working there and paora and i went up there to go and see him and it was about two oclock in the afternoon there was quite a lunchtime crowd there and course i was in old track pants and sweat top and paora was in his anorak or raincoat went up to the bar and tawhai come round and saw us and there were all these people sitting around the bar in suits laughs and tawhai come up and goes sorry don't serve maoris at this bar <{2><[2>laughs well these people just about choked on their <{3><[3>drinks didn't know where to look laughs <[1>yeah <[2>oh <[3>laughs <&>5:00 <,,><&>21 what's is that the hip no no it's <{><[>not it's more in the <,,> don't know <[>just it's a little bit that's where <,> the hip joins on to the pelvis mm isn't it sort of yeah it's in that area <,,><&>3 too much fat <,> on that arse <&>sighs that's where it all goes to yep straight to the hips yep don't know why it's just women it's the way women are built <,> they always carry more fat round their hip area anyway <,,><&>5 <&>6:00 word have a game word what want to have a game? of? of um scattergories oh scattergories we got scrabble up there i haven't played scrabble for a long time but i haven't i don't know why i'm sure there's no pieces missing but our scrabble set doesn't seem to have many letters laughs laughs should be a hundred tut hundred <{><[>letters? <[>printed squares yeah i doubt whether there's a hundred letters there i'll get it out and have a look cos it's got down the side of the board how many it should <{1><[1>have of each <{2><[2>letter <[1>mm <[2>mm <,,> i haven't played that game for ages mm good game that <,,> what else have we got we've got trivial pursuit oh yeah that game you got to start quite early <{><[>don't <[>yeah it goes <{><[>quite slowly game of knowledge is a good one that's like a <&>7:00 um a really easy trivial pursuit <[>eh yeah and there's not a lot of cards in there it's good for the kids and like there's um <,> some of the questions <,> quite hard to answer sometimes <,,><&>6 paora must have gone down the plughole tut no he's hopped out and nuku's hopped in oh he's in the lounge i think i wonder if he wants to go he can put some pressure on my back in what way um well his hands are heavier mm you know you reckon that's what you might need yeah okay cos your hands are getting tired no they're not actually oh oh this stuff must numb your fingers <{><[>at the same time <[>yeah you see you can't feel your fingers no both laugh <&>8:00 it must be the eucalyptus or something in it yeah don't know must get that's rawleigh's eh yeah must get some rawleigh's <{><[>OW damn <[>there's some good things out <,,> what have you done <,,><&>3 i'm trying to move tut are you sure you don't want to put my back brace on for a while no if nothing else it supports it i'll go and get it and you can try it if you like no <,> I used to have one yeah saddle <,,><&>4 it's good so it's when i get a really sore back sometimes i put it on and it it's like it takes all the pressure the brace helps to hold you upright <,,><&>3 the only thing for a sore back is bed rest well that's what they say eh yep and heat yeah need to have heat on <,> maybe you should turn <&>9:00 that blanket up to two and sleep on it like that but we're gonna sleep in ngawai's bed apparently tut oh are you no that's the <{><[>worst bed for your back <[>clears throat <,,><&>3 well where's ngawai and huia gonna sleep <{><[>see <[>ngawai reckons that he's sleeping the night at walter's <{><[>so i've said he he mentioned as he hopped out the van when i asked him how he was coming home he says oh we're staying the night <[>mm is he going over to martinborough yeah and pick him up in the morning <,,><&>20 see it's not it's not the middle of the back eh no it's like on the side yeah i reckon you did twist it when you were twisting yeah because that's what you you move those don't <&>10:00 you your side <,,><&>4 it's all that fat there it's <.>e even when i go like the slightest movement mm it's like um <,,><&>4 the pain just shoots through the slightest movement i make is that right yeah tut <,> well you could take a voltaren you haven't had that much <,,><&>6 what did yous have voltaren for tut oh that's i have to take them when i get my gall bladder <{1><[1>attacks when i can feel one coming on what i have to do is is chew a piece of bread or something and then eat it as i take the <{2><[2>tablet otherwise it burns the lining of your stomach <[1>oh <[2>yeah there's that naprosyn yeah pretty strong that stuff have to take one on a full stomach or with food <&>11:00 <,,><&>27 groans <,,><&>4 you right? you hot? NO i'm just trying to move oh <,,><&>23 oh dear <&>12:00 well it's been a long week yeah i mean you've got a lot of sleep to catch up on now mm tut with all the late nights and early mornings at the marae <,,><&>6 tut i often wonder how those people go you know on a tangi cooks and that up at six for breakfast and they're at voc don't often get into bed till one two the next morning up at six again <,> another late night <,> they just go and go but they normally have like <,> i do it today you do it tomorrow sort of thing <{><[>they have shifts and like a roster or <[>tut oh yeah yeah you know mm i was gonna say you wouldn't be able to keep that up continually continually <,,> see <.>k er monday night <,,> was it <&>13:00 monday night when did we come down tut tuesday eh tuesday you came down the monday night i didn't actually word up till three were you just waiting by the phone well no they <.>a it was after they rang oh okay yeah and didn't really sleep and then up again about sixish <{><[>yeah <[>and tuesday night <,,><&>3 missy and i didn't get to bed till after three tut oh is that right and up again for breakfast yeah um it was at half past five i think word or six oclock something like that yeah and then <,,><&>5 wednesday night oh <{><[>we had a late night wednesday night <[>mm that's right you couldn't sleep <{><[>eh <[>yeah pam and i were outside walking around mm <&>14:00 <,,><&>3 and LAST night well <,,> no thursday <{><[>night <[>thursday night that was another late night another late late night <,> and then friday night mm another late night <{><[>laughs that's what i mean a lot of sleep to catch up on <,,><&>5 gee charlie's an early riser he woke up about seven <[>yeah yeah they're all early risers yeah my lot aren't <{><[>mine <[>see i was up early this morning yeah <,,><&>3 and then i went to bed sort of latish the twins'll sleep till about tut oh half past eleven if you let them they'll just sleep and sleep but i think they're at the age too where they need a lot of sleep they're growing really <{1><[1>fast they're starting to <&>15:00 bulk out now like ngawai is cos ngawai's quite he's filling out <,> think he's going to have a build similar to orewa but i don't think he's gonna be as <{2><[2>tall as orewa <,,><&>7 orewa yesterday when we were saying goodbye at the airport wouldn't kiss his sisters <{3><[3>laughs <[1>yeah <[2>as tall no <[3>voc don't know why laughs inhales no no he says no comes over gives me a kiss gives daisy a kiss laughs don't know why they're like that inhales it's just his laughs <,,><&>8 i wonder if he goes away mm next week next week i think yeah seven weeks he was saying yeah <&>16:00 malaysia <,,><&>4 oh must have an interesting job <,> really challenging he reckons he's gonna get out of it soon <,> not SOON but probably within the next two or three years yeah well he told me he's going to <.>o er raro next next year hara is or <{><[>orewa is he <[>orewa yeah what to live and he because he was asking hara's going to mana <{><[>eh er to mana it was <[>mm mm um voc to mana's nephew jimmy to get him a job jimmy's on at customs out at the customs at the airport tut oh okay but i think they can only work there for <.>s so long you know <{><[>mhm <,,><&>7 tut mm he really he really likes rarotonga doesn't he <&>17:00 <[>yeah yeah <,,><&>6 you know there's nothing there to <.>d to do so you can't you know mm there's really no oh so it'd be more of a place to go and retire to because there's nothing else <{><[>there <[>yeah there's nothing but then you know <,> word if you take into account all the different cities that <&>orewa's been to yeah while he's been in the army i mean wow he's probably <.>seen seen it all and been there and done it all <,,><&>5 actually he might be ready for the quiet lifestyle that rarotonga has to offer <,> he could always go back to opua and live on the farm yeah that's true too be a <{><[>farmer <[>mm <,> oh yeah we could send ngawai up there yeah <,,><&>4 it'd be right up his alley he'd quite happily live out there on his own <&>18:00 <,,><&>11 i think that's pinching this side of the nerve cos i can feel my feet <,> and my legs yeah <{><[>it must be there somewhere <[>and yeah and then you feel it pull on the back of your <{><[>legs mm oh i used to get that a lot when i was carrying voc tamati <&>18:30 <[>yeah