Mahia Mikaera — Transcript

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1. 0:01I was brought up
2. 0:04on that side of the lake just straight
3. 0:06over there where the mouth of the
4. 0:07rumahunga
5. 0:09comes into the lake
6. 0:11my memories of the lake and what we used
7. 0:12to do down here involved
8. 0:16fishing a lot of fishing we
9. 0:20yeah we dragged the slake and um
10. 0:24yeah I can my wife on memories of it is
11. 0:27that because I was the sort of toss in
12. 0:28the family I was always on the deep end
13. 0:31of the Dragnet so that involved a lot of
14. 0:34being able to swim especially if you
15. 0:36walked into a hole it was always a lot
16. 0:39of eels flounders perch duck swans
17. 0:45yeah we all need to shooting that we
18. 0:48were nine years later we've got a
19. 0:49shotgun at nine eight to nine years
20. 0:51aways we all went hunting yeah caught
21. 0:53many a big Stags on the side of the
22. 0:55river swamp snakes were big huge
23. 0:58huge Beast
24. 1:02so yeah we're basically the last little
25. 1:03late people as as we would call it so um
26. 1:07yeah
27. 1:08we have you know great tires for the
28. 1:10Sleek our farm it was only about 260
29. 1:14Acres but our farm
30. 1:16three quarters of that used to flood in
31. 1:18the winter
32. 1:19so you know there was always that um
33. 1:22soil and sediment that came on on the
34. 1:25property then we the old man would
35. 1:27probably play our quarter of it and put
36. 1:29it in wheat and barley and peas It's
37. 1:32always scary about 200 odd breeding use
38. 1:35and
39. 1:36yeah
40. 1:37it always had triplets and twiddles so
41. 1:40it ended up with 400 and then
42. 1:42he would sell a hundred off and then
43. 1:44give the rest away to all the whanau
44. 1:47around the area they've all got a
45. 1:48Christmas lamb or whatever
46. 1:51quite a lot of a lot of Mirage and
47. 1:54effort there was tungy feel and
48. 1:56your dad was always a giver he never
49. 1:58taken you always gave give you the shoot
50. 2:01off his back he would
51. 2:04mum always cooked a lot of food and a
52. 2:08lot of people turned up these I don't
53. 2:10know where they came from but she seemed
54. 2:12to know that she needs to cook two or
55. 2:14three roasts and um and people turned up
56. 2:17and ate it yeah it was well known for a
57. 2:20cooking you know
58. 2:21yeah
59. 2:22I think it's rubbed up on all of us you
60. 2:24know who his favorite saying was well
61. 2:26you're not going to be like your father
62. 2:27and you've got to learn to wash your
63. 2:29clothes on your clothes make the bed and
64. 2:33cook I'm not putting that you wanted any
65. 2:35girl like that that was her saying so I
66. 2:38suppose and there was there were six of
67. 2:40us
68. 2:40so every one of us had to do that had to
69. 2:43lead the uh was we went leveling home
70. 2:47foreign