<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:45 anyway HEAPS better although last um monday night i slept really good cos i think i was tired real tired tuesday night cough cough wednesday night i was sitting up coughing all <&>1:00 night again slept like word mm did you cough while you were at the pearl fishers i tell you i had so many lozenges and i <{><[>had SO many peppermints in my handbag and i just kept them in my hand so that i could you know shove them in as soon as i felt something coming i would just shove put them in my <&>pronounced as me mouth clears throat and um there was two or three people there that were coughing coughing but it's hard to talk yourself out of it <[>laughs mm but that was a good deal last <.>n well REAsonable sort of deal last night i'm PLEASED we weren't paying for it cos it was um i think the dinner was about forty five dollars a head mm and <{><[>i was <[>that was at the james cook and i don't think we had forty five dollars mm worth it was arrive <{1><[1>at six we went downstairs we had um ONE glass of champagne we had tomato soup which was obviously you know <&>2:00 <{2><[2>made by the kitchen yeah not bad not bad very nice tomatoey soup and then there was a choice of fish fish with oysters or chicken and done in a cream and that was nice and i had the chicken and then we were sort of eating that and then we were told to like the bus is here <,> you know you're going to have to hurry and <.>n and <{3><[3>norm had just ordered another bottle of champagne cos you only got one glass <,> which was pretty mean <[1>at <.>s <[2>good champagne <[3>mm mm and so he ordered another bottle and we HADN'T finished our meal halfway through the meal mm and this guy's saying come on hurry up and then he said well i'll give you FIVE minutes but the bus is leaving at five past five <{><[>past seven oh <[>SEVEN which was <{><[>really <[>an hour's not long enough to eat a meal is it it's <{><[><.>ridicu <[>specially when you're with a crowd and you've got to <{><[>socialise and people <[>yeah but it was and it was it was slowly brought out too mm it was their fault because they were a bit slow bringing it out <,> so anyway we had that and then we shipped down to the the um opera house and <,> we had plenty of time oh heaps of time mm ten fifteen minutes <,> we had EXcellent seats oh did you where were you <{><[>sitting <[>sat RIGHT in the middle third from the front <{><[>word good <[>VERY very good seats so um and the show are you gonna go at all i might how much was it i think it was forty five dollars a ticket oh that's not bad but um tut that is they also gave you the programme but this chap who plays the lead <,> his name is <&>MF flips through programme er <,> alistair <&>4:00 wilson he plays nadir nadir what a voice the part was a TENOR mm and a POWER you know just incredible power it just SHOOK you mm and there's the um between er robert hobson who plays zirga and alistair wilson between the two of them and they play they sing this duet and it's just it was just absolutely magnetic incredible we sat i closed my eyes and the next minute i nodded laughs <{><[>laughs <[>yeah my head nodded er <{><[>word <[>see the trouble well <.>th <.>th that's what jim said you shouldn't eat before a show or you got tired or alcohol i suppose <{><[>too <[>mm um i mean to say you know sort of putting back maybe two and a half glasses maybe <{><[>three glasses of champagne FAST which was too fast <,> that was the problem <[>yeah mm well i quite often get sleepy when we go to shows even <&>5:00 when they're very <.>inte interesting and it hasn't ever occurred to me before it's because i've eaten so mm um what did we go to we went to the summer of the seventeenth doll and we didn't eat before we went we ate afterwards <,,> heaps better? yeah well you're <{><[>more alive <[>mm mm yeah well otherwise you need to eat much earlier yes <{><[>mm <[>mm the girl who played <.>the the um jacqui <.>w waterson oh <{><[>yes mm <[>who plays lena and <{><[>she <[>i nursed her grandmother oh did you mm ranui hospital she was SO proud of her granddaughter mm? nutty as a fruitcake but remembered though she had a granddaughter who sang beautifully and how about that <{><[>that's what strikes in her memory huh <[>yeah mm well she was um she was very very good she but she um at times i think she was er <.>sh she was blocked out by this guy alistair wilson <{1><[1>who played nadir when they sang together but there was a lot of um do you know <.>th do you <&>6:00 know the show at all <{2><[2>do you know what it's about <[1>mm <[2>nah nah sort of there was a lot of indian children <,> in this in this show and also um indian women and there was two what <.>re real indians <{><[>or <[>yes real indians <{><[>yes <[>lookalike indians no real indians <{><[>indian people and um most BEAUTIFUL cos they did a lot of sort of dancing you know like the indians dance <[>oh mm and they one oh two of them two girls they stood out something tremendous BEAUTIFUL looking girls and there was one there that was a um i would have said a woman in her forties i think with sort of like largish hips to match mm you know the <{><[>squat <[><.>for forty year forty year old <{><[>size <[>stretch the forty year old plus um hips she was er she was good but they <&>7:00 all wore the you know like the sari <,> and um it was really <{><[>worthwhile i was pleased <[>mm how <.>lo how long was it well they had three intervals er half past seven and then half past eight they broke again half past nine they broke again and i gather might have been towards half past ten must've been towards half past ten when we left mm and the um they must have had er FIVE at least five curtain calls <,> so <{1><[1>people were very very appreciative of what they'd heard and seen <{2><[2>scenery was pretty good <[1>mm <[2>mm yeah i think we might go i'll see if we can get decent seats it will depend whether we can get good seats <{><[>or not you know and i can't be bothered going if you can't see <[>yeah no right well i see the merry widow's coming oh <{><[>yeah <[>and that is opening on i saw that when i was a child at the napier <.>r the <&>8:00 napier repertory put it on oh right mm yeah this was the er wellington city opera chorus regional orchestra <,> and that their bookings open on the <.>au august the twenty third <,> so i think that'd be <{><[>quite good <[>so the pearl fisher's not going to be on for long no it's a short season ah and with the merry widow dame that's malvina major <&>pronounced as majors mm oh well we mightn't get to see it if it's short i actually thought it might've finished this weekend mm but you never know if you decide on the spur of the moment to go well what we've er done twice now is gone to the michael fowler centre and once we were just about sitting behind the pole <.>ov right over on the side ROTTEN seats we couldn't see a thing and obviously they had people who had a lot of seats but they don't always turn up to sit in them mhm we were sitting there couldn't see a thing looking up and thinking my there's all <&>9:00 these they've got little blocks of seats all round the place with nobody sitting in them so at half time we went and moved and sat in them mm and they were good so i suppose you can do that i'd actually do that as well mm because i've seen people do that at um the michael fowler centre they shift mm but one of the one of the <.>cou one of the couples that was with us last night he had they had gone to melbourne for the phantom when it word the VERY beginning when they started taking people over for <{><[>that show <[>mm and he said er they actually um they actually had a go at qantas over that because HE was BEHIND a box mm and he even missed <&>pronounced as rissed <.>th missed the phantom coming down the staircase and he just said he lost a third of the stage voc <{><[>mm <[>so they <.>h actually he got a had a go at um qantas over that one cos it <.>ru ruins anything for you if you <.>ca you can't see properly doesn't it <&>10:00 absolutely hopeless <{><[>obviously you don't pay that sort of money it costs you heaps of money to go specially on a trip like that <[>mm yeah actually i was going to ring you this afternoon and ask you if you have you got the um andrew lloyd webber tape of the phantom yep because i decided i was going to buy it and i went in and the guy said to me oh it's twenty six dollars it's a double one and i thought well i don't really want it <{1><[1>all i want <.>s just a few of the songs so <{2><[2>i might <[1>mm <[2>i think we've got that one too the one that's got the popular mm um andrew <.>llo andrew lloyd webber's popular hits or something <{><[>like that <[>oh yeah mm i don't i don't know that i want i just want those there're about three songs <{><[>word <[>well they're probably on it oh are they they're probably are <{><[>if they're the most <[>could i borrow it some <{><[>time and tape them <[>yeah sure mm <{><[>i don't know whether we've got a c d <&>pronounced as c v of the um of the opera might have c ds <&>pronounced as c vs have you got a c d <&>pronounced as c v player <[>some time we have but i don't know that we can tape i <.>wa i want the tape for my car you can't can you not run a tape <&>11:00 well i don't think we can tape from a <.>s the a a c d all <{><[>right <[>i think we have to <.>d i i usually use carol's um <,> stereo and <{><[>you can tape from a tape on that <[>right oh right cos OURS you've got a double tape you've got two tapes you can run two tapes so you can record mm and i think you can also tape the c d off it as well <,> which is <{><[>quite good <[>mm i don't know donna and carol know all about those <{><[>so <[>oh well let's give it to them <{1><[1>and let them do it don't you do it <{2><[2>much much easier <[1>mm <[2>mm and what did you do afterwards all pile back in the bus and <{><[>back up to dinner at the james cook <[>yeah yeah yes and we had um sweets and coffee and i suppose we would've been home probably about midnight oh so um it was quite late quite a late night it was um <,> tut um oh they had quite a nice trolley load of sweets but we just had <&>12:00 black forest cake mm but you know that sort of time of night <.>w i didn't really <,> i think probably i would've burned that off going home i <{1><[1>know steven was really tired it's probably because it was a wednesday night and that makes it a bit tough <{2><[2>middle of the week <[1>mm <[2>yes you've got to get up and go to work the next day yeah well he was in at um in at work at seven <,> just after seven this morning cos he <{1><[1>had two big papers to read before er um a meeting <,> with the committee <,> and um he rang me at quarter to nine and he said did i wake you up and i said yes <{2><[2>laughs i was having a BEAUTIFUL sleep henry'd gone and bill wasn't up cos bill didn't start till late today <[1>mm <[2>word <{1><[1>oh he he yeah <{2><[2>he's <[1>he um <[2>he's got really odd hours yes he hasn't got much in the morning has he no some are eleven and <.>s and once or <&>13:00 twice it's been at ten or ten thirty um but round about eleven or two or three or mm whatever they're quite <.>w quite weird <&>13:05