<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>2:20 oh he's the vet yes laughs and i think he's a more a less a er one of these permanent students i'm beginning to <.>thin no i suppose you've got to keep up with things they do don't they well he but he does seem to flit around doing little <{><[>bits and pieces <[>well he was over in england <,> a few years ago <,> and he <,> went on a special eye course there to qualify <,> it was very hard for him to get taken because of the old school tie in england and he being from the colonies but er after the course he got top marks <{><[><,> so you know <[>oh word <&>3:00 <[>he's over forty now he sort of wondered if he was still up to sort of keeping up and he's evidently doing well i got a postcard from him the other day it looked a BEAUtiful university and um it's obviously their break over there for about nine weeks and that's when this course is running and he said there were vets and doctors evidently cos it was human eyes he was working laughs on when he wrote from all over the world there sounds quite voc i see all laugh i don't think i want to know too much no it doesn't sound too good but anyway you see he organised all this before he went these electric gates and things cos they are they have been burgled a few times cos they're sort of up in the trees and away from everything but i mean that was the last laughs straw when she couldn't come to tea laughs cos she couldn't get out <{><[>i think that's WONderful <[>well i <,,><&>3 yeah i think if john was home he'd know how to he probably would know <&>4:00 and there was <,> cos occasionally there's two <,> there's two gates that come in like that sometimes they get out of if the wind's blowing hard when they come to close they've got er you know about so much and a dog or a cat could get through so you got to sort of open them again and then close them again but er <,,> i have seen him do some adjustments there but er you're not planning electric gates on your front gates then <{><[>francie laughs <[>no no i don't think laughs so that was the last <{><[>straw <[>i <[>you'd have to shout at all the neighbours to lift your car over <{><[>laughs <[>yes i sort of thought well we could go out with something but i thought it'd be cold by the time we got there anyway so there wasn't much we could do about it and i said to tina are you all right because tina likes to eat she said yes i've had a cracker with some cheese on laughs oh dear but the power's going off quite regularly <{><[>down at robert's <[>well i don't know what was the problem you see first of all she thought it might be just theirs but um she sort of rung and <.>ev the whole place was off but the other rest of it came on i think about sixish but she had to wait <&>5:00 they got a flick or a flash <{><[>but then nothing happened <[>yes <,> and then nothing mm we're so reliant on it word <{><[>particularly at this time of year <[>i know that's what i thought i thought she'll have to get something else out there so she can <,> um i mean that's just the last straw isn't it when you can't even get a hot drink or anything mm it's funny where that um our microwave hasn't been working and word taken it down to um l v martin and i didn't even think i used to like it at all <{1><[1>but when as soon as we didn't have it we've just discovered how much we'd used it <{2><[2>and that's only one microwave i mean that's not our <{3><[3>electricity <[1>no <[2>well i <[3>i know i know <,> yes well i use mine for <.>li sort of little things and i put extra in it when i'm cooking a meal i don't sort of usually run to whole meals in in it sort of er not like joanne does actually but um no you you wouldn't want to be without it once you've got used to it mm maybe we need l p g microwaves <{1><[1>and <,> little camper caravan fridges <{2><[2>and <[1>yes <[2>mm that's right <&>6:00 although joanne wasn't SO bad off she's had got one of those fires but hers is <,> stands out in the room it's not a <{><[><,> it's not it's not a built in one and or you can do heat up you know on the top of it <[>yeah well she was stoking it up so she could get a bit of hot water sort of mm oh yeah mm yep so she wasn't <,> you know destitute is she the one that is involved with the dogs yes <{><[>she's the one that got all us all involved yes <[>with the corgis er how many corgis in your family <{><[>laughs <[>laughs well we've only <{><[>got <,> two <[>i didn't realise you had a star in the family yes <,> well we've only got the two but she's got um <,> i suppose she's got about seven now hasn't she well they're <{1><[1>sort of up and down and she's sending them <{2><[2>away word selling them at <[1>i think so <[2>she's got um three that she brought back from england with her um all at different times and um <,> i mean she laughs she's um she actually she's going over to san francisco to judge in september so she'll meet up with john then so it's good she'll see him again and i think he comes home <&>7:00 not sort of long after that what has she been invited by the dog show over there oh yes <{1><[1>she judges all over the world she <{2><[2>judges <[1>oh wonderful <[2>does she <{><[>mm <[>she's approved by the <{><[><.>ke word approved er overseas judge from the <,> you know the new zealand kennel club <[>she judged in england for mm well the <{1><[1>corgi twenty fifth years over there they had a special um show and she was invited over to that and she actually stayed by er next to um highgrove wasn't it where prince charles and princess di live but um she stayed with the crabtree and evelyn people that <{2><[2>make all the and they even had little soap corgis in their bedrooms <{3><[3>and things i think she brought them all home they have corgis obviously but the queen's the patron of that um <,> of the league of course because she's supposed to have been the first ones that sort of got corgis for pets <.>s started a <,> the habit i think laughs although they are ideal sort of size and that obviously aren't they <,> for i <&>8:00 mean we <{4><[4>never <[1>got to be approved you know for <[2>oh really yes mhm <[3>laughs <[4>for what for biting ankles no laughs word all laugh the puppies all do try it when they're <{><[>tiny i mean they do that's how they herd cattle you see <[>er they are they are natural <{><[>heelers <[>you've got to teach them not to actually sometimes <,> some we've had if we got them excited enough they'll they <{1><[1>will take a little nip round that area <{2><[2>but not <[1>mm <[2>playfully you know playfully <,> they <{><[>don't mean <[>that's what that's what they would think you want them for isn't it to nip those who you don't want here voc ours would show anyone whether there's anything worth finding i'm afraid wouldn't they they'd be no use whatsoever we shut them in the bedroom so as they wouldn't sort of rush out when you came mm i didn't think you wanted to tape them all laugh oh i don't know that would have all added to it i would <.>ha word i would have had to have written them down on the form oh you would as participants laughs er how old are they <,> the two corgis you've got oh timothy's about eleven <,> <{><[>and <&>9:00 <[>might be even older than that mightn't he no he's about eleven <{><[>i think i have got him in the birthday book and bartie is eight i think <[>word that's a pretty trendy name <,> simpson's his surname i take it well my little <{1><[1>grandson named him he was how old would matthew have been then about two and he insisted he looked like um one of my daughter's friend's new baby and as they had been twelve years married before they'd produced this baby we didn't think we should let them know he looked like bartholomew but when joanne susan told jean jean thought it was hilarious she looked at bartie and she looked at her little boy and she said there's a definite likeness <{2><[2>laughs but he kept calling him that we couldn't <{3><[3>agree on it <,> come pussy we couldn't agree on what to call him and matthew was calling him bartie all the time and i said what's matthew saying to him all the time and matthew said he looks like baby bartie <{4><[4>laughs so <&>10:00 <[1>first name <[2>laughs <[3>word <[4>laughs oh oh now if i hear er penelope penelope being called somebody's named their cat <{><[>after me <[>you'll know what's happened laughs oh joanne calls hers strange names she's got one called tickle <.>ti tickle <{1><[1>they've got big pedigree names <{2><[2>you know but she calls gives them funny names there's cricket and <,> tickle what else are they she's got there <[1>tickle <[2>mm oh onge <,> i mean we always thought she'd only have pups we never thought she'd have children laughs so she got you interested in corgis she gave <{><[>you word these ones <[>oh yes yes well the nonsense started here originally she was looking after someone's <{><[>german shepherd wasn't she a <,> <.>w woman that lived down the road here and was building a house somewhere else and her german shepherd wasn't very popular around it hadn't been taught all the right things to do she was an austrian woman and joanne loved dogs and we didn't want dogs and er she used to go and take it to walk all the time and then she took it to obedience and what happened was when they shifted into their house they gave joanne this little pup you see we'd said no we didn't want any dogs and i think fiona thought that if it was a corgi pup that we couldn't say no but we <&>11:00 didn't even know what it i mean it looked like a little ginger pig actually <[>a um fiona gave to us an an address out at the hutt yes and picked this up you see and we didn't realise until the breeder came and told us what that had cost and um we were just so horrified mm but um and this the dog had been given to joanne he was given to joanne the first one for services rendered because she's looked after this <{1><[1>german shepherd i mean we ended up with it here this great <{2><[2>big shepherd <[1>big monstrous <[2>in that kennel out <{><[>the back there <[>and if we <{1><[1>brought it inside it would wag its tail i'm not exaggerating it used to knock things off the table it was just so large <,> not that i very often had it <{2><[2>inside <[1>mm <[2>out there the <.>ba out the back was <{><[>a sea of mud <[>was like a mud pool and oh <{1><[1>i'd take this thing for a walk at late at night <,> and you'd go <{2><[2>on and you'd let it off the lead now are you going to be a good girl <,> it was a big bitch <,> and word go and the thing would be walking beside you <,> then all of a sudden a cat would go across your bows like that and all the coaxing in the wide world wouldn't bring it back you'd hear all this crashing behind houses tins going and everything <,> and er <,> so i'd i'd go home and the thing'd be <,> arrive home before me and it'd be in its kennel <{3><[3>cowering down like this <[1>mm <[2>word <&>12:00 <[3>word yeah well its er owner actually was living at a house at the back of <,> the house across the road there and living in a little bach <{1><[1>thing with her little girl and um she sort of got to the stage where the postman wouldn't even deliver she kept it in her car at the front and it was a um what sort of it was fancy sort of car wasn't it a <{2><[2>sports car and it was a bitch and all the came and they clawed all the paint off the outside of the car <{3><[3>and it wrecked the inside of the car oh things were bad i <{4><[4>can tell you <[1>mm <[2>it was yeah <[3>laughs <[4>kids used to tease it so it so it <{1><[1>got quite fierce <,> postman wouldn't deliver any mail around that area laughs <{2><[2>so <&>13:00 <[1>so it clawed the upholstery of the car <[2>how long ago was that well this would be when joanne was <,,> ten i suppose and what is she now in her early forties isn't <{1><[1>she and um <{2><[2><,> she would be <,> eleven when she was given this first corgi that started all this <,> and look where it's got us <&>13:17 <[1>mm <[2>oh it sounds hysterical