<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:27 so tell me about your cottage garden tut well you see when we got there <.>the the garden was various like the front part was for coastal didn't have hardly any plants in it except a very lonely erica laughs so we sort of looked at that in despair and didn't do much and at the back there was a sort of beginnings of a herb garden which probably the ends of a herb garden actually cos there were old chives and a <.>v very valiant sage and some other things <{><[>like <[>would you like one of those parsley everywhere yeah so anyway that was all right and <.>we we didn't do a lot last year we just sort of got into the house and <&>1:00 carried on working and then went overseas although i did do little <.>te teensy bits um that of cuttings <{><[>that nan gave me and um <,> anyway what's happened is that so <.>the the little cottage gardeny bit which would only be you know three yards or something like that <[>word mm is now looking really beautiful all word you know blue and pale purple and pink and white <{><[>scattered word young <[>mm lovely so what are they what have you got well i've got delphiniums mhm and i've got a <{><[>lovely lovely thing called feverfew beautiful <[>lovely at this time of year word and <.>forgetme feverFEW it's like a little teensy weensy um it's about that big it's like a teensy weensy little chrysanthemum divine mm so and then i've got um tut oh just all my scrummiest oldfashionedy plants in there but then we came to a green plastic compost thing oh and three pieces of wood which someone had put up <{1><[1>god knows why can't <.>t work out why and <.>a a kind of bit of corrugated iron which must have been there to stop something so matthew heaved and voc <.>sho cos i was looking at that look this is ridiculous we've got this bit we could have more garden here that looked really very pretty <{2><[2>comes down through the squidgy part it takes it up to the top of york bay so <.>he he even did that this morning and behind there i've just got little pansies and stuff that i already had planted out some of the um tut forgetmenots and then we'd gone to the garden centre in eastbourne and we bought two BEAUtiful trees that have got yummy pinky funny squiggly hang down things on them and two others one's called a sweet pea tree <{3><[3>tut and it's gorgeous and grows grows quickly <[1>laughs <&>2:00 <[2>yes mm mm <[3>oh oh and the other is called i love <{><[>sweet peas <[>a mexican orange blossom oh and is that a tree too yeah and they fast grow so <.>th this cottage garden that looked like a compost heap with voc voc voc wood wood wood wood this <&>3:00 morning is transformed now <{1><[1>laughs i feel so good about it <{2><[2>laughs <[1>laughs how neat <[2>oh that's great were those trees expensive nine dollars for the bougainvilleas which are those those squiggly ones <{1><[1>they've got the yeah they were reduced i don't know why but they're very hardy trees and they grow quite quickly the japonicas are about thirteen or <.>s not japonica the sweet pea tree something like about thirteen they're <.>no no dearer than actually a lot of cottage plants actually flowers don't know why <{2><[2>we <.>were <[1>mm mm <[2>oh that's fantastic delighted really <.>liz liz pilkington used to RUN that little er <.>d do <.>you you probably don't remember it was up the top of <,> cuba street i think RIGHT up the top of cuba street it was this little thing called called small gardens no and it was a like a little garden centre for small gardens and <.>she and she ran that for quite a few years i don't think voc <{><[>word <[>was i here then probably not you might have been it was before i went to the arts council <{><[>and before she went to the arts council <[><.>oh right and so she had this <.>li that's what she was she ran a garden centre so if you <{><[>ever talk to her about plants and things like that she is <&>4:00 SO knowledgeable <[>word isn't that neat she's really amazing but it was such a neat thing to do it was <.>so sort of in the city she had this little thing <{><[>word for things <[>cos people don't have big gardens for things <{><[>for people who <.>sold who needed stuff for small gardens it was it was great yeah <[>mm oh <{><[>word <[>so she knows a lot about plants i know <.>th i mean i just don't <.>l don't remember the names of anything like oh we went on this bushwalk last weekend <.>and and we were with mary darwin's sister who's a botanist or something mm and she kept <.>s explaining things and it was so good it's <{><[>great <[>but i mean i was just so ignorant i don't know the names of anything i <{><[>know the names of the most basic things <[>word well see nan of course did all that she was a botanist and she knows <.>ab <{><[>she does these long <[>oh was she was she a botanist yeah she was one of the first people to get an m a or something in new zealand oh really i don't know oh good so she <.>said she <.>jus they all roll off her tongue and i think i'll remember that laughs but if it's got a name like heart's ease i mean what a name yeah HEART'S ease or FEVERfew mm <{><[>feverfew's lovely <[>i remember that beautiful eh so it <.>must do you think it probably had a medicinal purpose i think they did in fact i do know that they did because i then looked in the herb garden at the um tut <&>5:00 botanical gardens <.>b yeah mm there was feverfew oh they're <.>lo and so little heart's ease like the teensy weensy pansies with the little wee <{><[>faces women's colours they are <[>mm purple <{><[>and pink and yellow oh and yellow <[>purple and yellow <.>no no yeah but no white on them actually mm but tell me about jason tut oh i was thinking <{><[>word about him just as i came up here <[>mm oh god voc mm he's not good he's had a bone scan this week tut um cos he went back to his urologist i think about wednesday right and explained he'd been having this <.>swolle cos he's been having this <.>le his leg's been swollen his right leg's <{><[>really swollen and they said that was a lymphodema and then then there all this pain into his buttocks so he was on four hourly <&>pronounced as lourly panadol in a LOT of pain like sounds like sciatica <[>you told me that yes it does sound like that but i mean like something's pressing on something it <{1><[1>doesn't i don't like the sound of it at all and he keeps saying things like oh i hurt that leg when i fell a few months ago or you know or <{2><[2>word when his ankle was all swollen up he said i'm sure it's the way i get in and out of the <{3><[3>car <[1>oh <[2>but you know you you feel it's not that <[3>yeah he said that to me i <{><[>remember that word i know <[>and i thought oh spare me you know i mean <&>6:00 it's <{1><[1>like this is <.>w fluid and it came and went you know <{2><[2>i mean no sprain ever comes and goes like that <[1>tut <[2>mm no so anyway voc meg's gone away for the weekend she's gone up to auckland with her son voc and so i knew he'd be sort of a bit washed up on his own i said come and have a meal with us over the weekend you know come on sunday and and i was going to drop in today anyway and er he rang me this morning i was still in bed and said oh i don't think i'll come to you tomorrow i don't think i can get up your path my <{1><[1>leg's <.>really i mean i mean he was basically wanting to ring up and say to someone how painful his leg was and he was really in pain and um but he had this <.>b he went back to his urologist and <.>about cos he's still got his catheter in you see he's <{2><[2>still got a catheter and a bag strapped to his leg and i think that's permanent i don't think he <.>c his <.>fler <.>flu he's got no control at all there he's not ever going to get rid of that inhales and <.>the and he explained all this stuff about the sore buttock and the swollen things and everything to his urologist who then said right a bone scan and a blood test and so he's HAD those <[1>tut poor guy <[2>word what last week something <&>7:00 he had them yes he had the bone scan on thursday i think and the blood test on wednesday and he's going back to his urologist on wednesday to get the results of all this so god knows what we'll find out then tut so <.>wha <{><[>if he's not going to come to dinner tomorrow or for <.>me <[>inhales well <.>i i'll drop him in something i <.>d and so today we <.>wen we tried to go to the pool today i <.>tri i want to go to aqua fitness at eleven oh good on you well i wanted to go to aqua fitness at eleven so we gathered up susie and everybody in their togs and we tear over there <.>just get there about three minutes before the class is supposed to start and the pool is all closed for some other <.>spe you know they're not <{><[>no <.>aqua aqua fitness is cancelled some sporting thing <[>oh a sport word thing oh and i <.>th so i thought oh god i thought you know after we'd <.>s <.>go spent half an hour getting there so then i said let's go to freyberg so then we get i don't want to go <.>to annie didn't want to go to freyberg and the other two DID and you know <.>w so i said we're going to freyberg we've got this far <{1><[1>so we get round to freyberg it's lane swimming only which is no good for the little kids tut so i thought <,> oh god this really isn't working out at all and actually it was rather sort of <{2><[2>muggy and hot to be driving round wellington with a car full of children <[1>right <[2>laughs i mean only car word car i know so then <{1><[1>i said oh well we'll go and we'll go to um the karori pool what the hell <{2><[2>we'll go to the karori pool and we'll just swim there <.>wh well we could have done that in the first place except that i couldn't have done my class and <{3><[3>the <.>w and it's not quite as <.>w good as those bigger pools so on the way to the karori pool we stopped in and saw jason and <.>i and annie was saying i don't want to go in will you drop me home and i said why don't you stay with jason <{4><[4>and make him some lunch <[1>you've got to deal word <&>8:00 <[2>mm mm <[3>no <[4>mm mm so we went in and visited him and i said annie'll stay with you and make you some lunch and she gets on <.>quite and she chats away with jason and they have quite a nice she's very good with <{><[>adults isn't she <[>yes she is <.>she's well she's good with him too i don't know they sort of get along <{1><[1>nicely and um better than the other two do really <{2><[2>you know she sort of somehow gets it right with him and he seems to make an effort too so she stayed with him for an hour we <.>went the other two and i went and swam at the pool andrea did SEVEN lengths <[1>mm <[2>mm goodness me with a little breaks in between but she's never swum a length of that pool before <{><[>and she just suddenly discovered she could swim a length and got so keen she didn't want to stop she said i'll just do another one and then i'll do another one <[>that's so good that's terrific so that was fun so she looked like a <.>s liz was there <&>9:00 with her friend john and he said <{1><[1>she looked like a goldfish you <{2><[2>know <.>s there's a little head word <.>a a roll in the water <[1>mm <[2>laughs he'd find out when <.>we yeah oh and legs sort of sagging in the water <.>o and breaststroking away <{><[>you know but she was obviously really sort of getting a kick out of the achievements <[>good on her that's so good so annie stayed there and made jason some lunch and then we went back afterwards so i mean he's sort of all right he's pottering around but <.>he's he's walking with a stick tut tut tut cos it's REALLY hurting him <{><[>and he's taking <.>four <[>how old is he now eighty something eighty two tut he's taking four hourly panadols tut inhales exhales so what's the story <{><[>do they say on wednesday <.>which you know that it could be in the lymph glands and it might spread further <[>oh i don't know who knows but i mean <.>some <.>ly yeah well i don't know <.>what i have no idea what they'll come up with on <{><[>wednesday but i mean i would SAY all of this is related to the prostatic cancer <[>oh no oh no and um is he in all right spirits really like is <.>h <{><[>you know how <.>he <[>yes he's a very stoical person he's a very philosophical person <{><[>about um <[>yeah what pain or death or what just the whole <&>10:00 everything really tut i mean <.>he he's i think he felt pat wasn't stoical enough well she didn't strike me as a wimp tut oh she was never a wimp god love us but she was really um aggrieved mhm about what had happened to her <.>sh i think she felt it's not fair why me you know like i've i've lived a sort of good life and done all the right things oh when she got cancer when she got <{><[>cancer and how <.>c how <.>ca it doesn't seem FAIR that i have got cancer and then and also i think when they did that massive surgery on her she was <[>yeah poor thing she was not accepting you know <.>th whereas jason's a more accepting sort of <{><[>person it's just the kind of person he is <[>yeah yeah that he's tends to just sort of think well this is what life has dished out to you <{><[>and and and you just get on with it <[>yes yeah um <,,> and he <.>g and he <.>f he felt her i think that she she <.>d wasn't accepting enough with her <.>situ you know of what was going on <{><[>word <[>but he supported her emotionally <.>at through that time voc <.>not <.>not i think he <.>w didn't really understand <&>11:00 i know how much it was hurting her <{><[>yeah and um i mean i can remember when she first had that colostomy and she didn't want anyone to know <[>that's awful i remember when you told me <{><[>word <[>and he told some friend of hers that she <.>wasn wasn't even a parTICularly close friend and <.>he she was just like furious with him to kill him and mortified herself mortified and <{><[>so she was <.>so she's a <.>w you know well she's a very <.>s fastidious and private woman <[>poor thing yeah and <.>it it's appalled her what they'd done to her appalled her <&>11:27