<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>0:54 is this where you were born <&>1:00 that's where i was born <,,> and pa designed that home and built it but in my day it had a verandah right across there that you could lean on and look over that was the sun porch i used to teach music on that windowsill and be a nun <,> and there was <{><[>a place <.>that <.>that and THAT was the bedroom i was born in <[>a nun? you? cor and this is the house but of course it's very exposed there of course cos in our day there was a big <.>path it's probably still there on this side of the house and nana had it full of shrubs <,> and this is from the bull paddock looking across to the house <,> that was the breakfast room it had a separate kitchen and a dining room mhm in those days the bathroom was inside that and there was a bedroom off in behind that this was the front room and the sun porch <,> <{1><[1>and that was the master bedroom then you went through to a very large back porch that was covered in uncle norbert and i when he <&>2:00 came home from the war and i was fifteen then and he <.>was been a prisoner of war when we used to watch the sunrise come up up that way walking up and down this patio oh and i suppose it was as long as this house it was covered in and it had extra rooms in the wash house and extra loo off the back <,> and then behind that was the blackberry and the gooseberry bushes that pa used to make his wine with <,> and another old bach <,> and a belt of pine trees which they cut everything down when they took down the pine trees and the cowshed was miles away from the house <,> quite a long way away cos pa liked the <{2><[2>house cowshed <{3><[3>further than some farmers away from the house but the pigsties were just over there <,> there was a drive <,> sloping lawn down to the flax bushes and the raspberries full of garden absolutely <,> terrace garden right through full of every vegetable you can imagine and another <&>3:00 long track down to the wooden gates that used to take you ACROSS the track the main driveway out <.>of the farm driveway <,> to the pigs <,,> and then right on down to the cowshed <[1>oh right <[2>mm <[3>separate mm and the day pa was knocked off the haystack <,> i remember running from cowrail to cowrail to cowrail then we took a shortcut through the <,,> er the <.>c led into the the race that led into the cowshed and i <.>wen i had clean white sockettes on i didn't put my shoes on i just ran <,,><&>4 jumping from laughs cowrail to cowrail i was only seven then <,,><&>3 the year war broke out <,,><&>5 made a big difference to <&>4:00 everybody's life <,> and when war came quite surprising mm cos uncle callum was only fourteen then so callum was only seven years older than i am <,,><&>4 mm <&>turning pages of album <,,><&>5 oh gosh laughs <,,><&>5 yes but pa lived longer <,> see he was only a young man when he was killed <,,><&>4 mm it made a great difference that was your grandfather mm great grandfather <,,> mummy's dad so you <.>moved your family moved back in you and your mum moved back in did you well when the war broke out dad was they were <&>5:00 split up <,> we were down on the next farm <,> but one there was the farm in between us and the johnson brothers had their own farm and dad and them were in partnership <,> and um <,> when the war came the eldest boy was called up that was dan but he didn't want to go to the war nobody did really and so his father appealed for him to stay home and said that dad would take his place <,> which my father did but it caused a family ruction and they never spoke again <,> um and dad went into the army but they were sleeping in world war one tents that were leaking and he got pleurisy and <.>was ended up being discharged unfit for home guard so that <.>fixed the family <{><[>safe <[>well he dad couldn't go BACK to the partnership that he had because the family rift was so large so and in between mum and i had gone to live with nana <,,> and er so then <&>6:00 when he came OUT of the army unfit for home guard as it were they had to find something to do so they went share milking <,,> and that's when we sort of <,> dad worked for a series of farmers around the place it was like one big family in those days the community was so well known dan johnson inhales used to receive in his mail the mail was always taken to the factory so that the boys when they took the milk in on the old milk wagons the cans all rattling and inhales milk would be tipped in and <{><[>made cheese <[>that's how it is in ireland <{><[>when we went there <[>mm yeah well it was very primitive in those days kids still used to ride horses to school when i was a girl voc apparently still do nowadays in the rural back <{><[>areas as well around gisborne and places <[>word mm so it was quite interesting and um <,,><&>4 i suppose then we moved out and then my mum and dad split up of course we went back to stay with nana by this time pa'd've been well dead <&>7:00 of course <,> but nana was great for playing one <.>off <{><[>one member of the family off against the other <,> she bit naughty that way <,,><&>4 yeah long time ago <[>mm mm <,,><&>4 and when you think your grandmother went to <.>hor went to town in a horse and gig mm it used to get there faster than <.>the what the cars could <,> because the roads were so windy for cars yeah but pa had the first car in the district it was a wolesley knight <,> he was driving it along the road once it was a crossroads at mahoe near the factory house was and the factory was just down the hill and then there was the school on this corner and the mahoe hall and nana and pa lived opposite the mahoe hall and that was just the hub of the <.>who the entire the whole corner was the hub of the <.>v <{1><[1>the village as it were yeah it was and everybody used to meet on the <&>8:00 corner <,> and this day <,> um laughs well dan johnson not only getting white feathers but a yellow streak down the middle of them that that was sort of very naughty but that's the sort of thing that went on <{2><[2>inhales but anything that happened <[1>the square the town square <[2>WHAT that's for somebody who tried to get out of going to <{><[>the war <[>yes yes <{><[>and anything that happened always used to come to the factory manager's house which was nell gordon this is billy who i was telling you about his mum's place and she used to <.>b i still hear nana's voice ringing out on the cold frosty air oh mount egmont used to tower above us <[>mm mm it's just a wonderful mountain really <,> and saying you're the nicest man in the world because he brought news uncle stan had been missing for six months <,> and nana really thought he was dead she'd had this dream and she'd seen him drop and he had called out MUM so she came out next morning because mummy and i were still living with her and said stan was dead but then the telegram said missing in action <,> but actually what had happened and <&>9:00 it's true nana did dream it she did see it and she had told us a long time before and i can still remember it and when <.>the the news did come through that he was a prisoner of war what had happened was a bomb HAD exploded in front of him and he was blinded and he was put into hospital <,> and it took ages for that news to come back for <.>the mm people to say that he was a prisoner of war then he used to write and say i <,> took a pill it worked for six days and that meant he had escaped for six days laughs and then he was put <.>in cos he was in stalag eight b which was supposed to be in czechoslovakia mm well he escaped to czechoslovakia and was fighting six months with them before the war ended <,,><&>3 and anyway you know there's lots of stories about the war and <,> farming and the community we lived in it was a very closeknit community <,,> and of course mum was the star tennis player <&>10:00 of the whole of taranaki she came <{><[>top for taranaki for forty years <,,><&>4 <[>mm laughs mm <,,><&>4 SO what are you <{><[>looking at now <[>when <.>is when did you take this picture what's that one <{1><[1>oh that's christmas time <,> you and <{2><[2>jeremy were packing up to go down to wellington <,> <{3><[3>making big decisions there you two <[1>this picture <[2>oh <[3>oh can't even remember you taking that one <,,><&>5 voc voc the cat? yes poor old sooty the cat's not well <,,><&>3 you should take him down to the word yeah that's the funny <{><[>part about it <[>get some quality out of his life anyway yeah this is why i don't want to put him down i think you just <.>sh <,,> you can take that photo if you want to oh no i was just <.>see seeing what it said on the back <&>11:00 nothing what does it say on the back january the eleventh right well that was when you went down to wellington mm that's the girl mcleod's <{><[>wedding <[>so we must've been at <&>name 's place right about the fourteenth or the sixteenth <,,> what's the new pussycat what's new pussycat pussycat what's new it's a song yep oh that's the old farmhouse but they moved it lock stock and barrel some accountant from auckland's bought the place where have they moved it <{><[>to <[>instead of bulldozing down the house now that was your grandfather that house how many years old would it be <,,><&>3 he took nana there as a bride <,> built it out of <.>the well this year native bush mum mum was born in <{><[><.>nineteen <[>i reckon it's a absolutely brilliant design mum mum was born in <{><[><.>nineteen <[>it still looks modern i think mum mum was born in nineteen ten the <&>12:00 year that the comet halley's comet first came <{><[>in <[>well no she <.>was i was born nineteen thirty two yeah and she was twenty two then wasn't she mm <&>tapping spoon so she was born in nineteen ten mm see the old family bible <,,> that's in the bedroom mm so this house would've been built around the same time nineteen oh nine <,,><&>3 oh eight oh nine well pa your grandfather samuel king and his father was also a samuel king <,> james samuel king something like that were the first bridge builders mm in taranaki they er well they're in that genealogy book yes and they are also in the turnbull library mm mm sort of pioneers <.>of well your grandfather had <.>a really was a far <&>13:00 sighted man because he left a wonderful <.>p stand <.>of of um native bush on the farm he didn't chop it all down like some people would've mm inhales it was a wonderful farm it had three road frontages <,,><&>4 it really shame when <.>th when the war came and the two eldest boys went and uncle stu who was the eldest went into <.>the he was unfit to go overseas but he was actually on the ground crew of the airforce um it left nana rather high and dry with two younger boys just left to run the farm and then when john got old enough he wanted to go and REALLY resented it and that's when all the trouble started because he blackmailed nana inhales into making the farm over to him <,> virtually and uncle gordon who was fourteen when the war broke out he got away and he got as far as italy but then peace <.>was armistice day came when he was in rome mm so he never really saw any fighting <&>14:00 well jolly WELL jolly good but um <,> who wants to <{><[><.>s <[>but he got overseas which john really resented <,> and so before everybody came home uncle john had got them to sell the farm nana to sell the farm mm <,,><&>3 which of course it real upsetting <.>i i don't think any of them ever spoke to each other again after that certainly not to john <,> what's that the photo of this one no that one you've got there just dad and john oh that's christmas day <,> it's not christmas day it's new year's day very affectionate pussycat he is an old darling really isn't <{><[>he <[>OH here's fred mm the day we went for our <.>sw <{><[>um our travel round <[>he won't speak to me and susie likes a bit of attention <,,> responding well didn't like me very much today when i tramped on his tail <&>15:00 laughs meow i thought he was going to claw <{><[>me <[>did you <{><[>hear from fred ever again <[>quite a lump no we haven't heard a word from that day to this quite a lump aren't you boy <,,><&>5 tut yes i don't think he's all that sick do you didn't strike me as being terribly sick it's just <{><[><.>that <[>gosh is this the italian wedding probably too fat that's the catholic church yeah <,> it's an incredible dress with that <.>v queen victoria collar it's queen elizabeth isn't it yeah queen elizabeth that's what i meant mm really funny because her mother put her foot through the wedding in front of the wedding dress before the evening was out i think <{><[>that's awful <[>oh she was <.>so poor little girl was SO upset that's awful actually and it's such a beautiful dress oh it was it came <.>from all that italian lace <&>16:00 yes but no it was made in germany it came from germany <,,> even though they're living in um <{1><[1>vienna <,> they picked the frock up because his parents brought the frock out when they came it must have been made for her but oh it WAS exquisite there's no doubt about <{2><[2>that <[1>what <[2>it's GORGEOUS GOSH <,> i wish you could see some of the other photos that i took but i sent them to them <,,> mm <,,><&>4 i'm getting all mixed up going backwards and forwards <&>16:37