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  • Season 2 Episode 6. aka record some random chat and upload.

    Chatting with Elise about a few things.

    Transcript

    → 8:23 PM, Apr 28
  • Season 2 Episode 5 aka Episode 105.

    Some idle chatter about recent events. Elise is a member of the student council now.

    Transcript

    → 4:13 PM, Mar 29
  • Season 2 Episode 4 aka Episode 104 aka Would everyone stop calling it a podcast!

    It’s just a chat. There is no fore planning or order. It’s just a record of some voices in time.

    Trying to get back into recording more regularly.

    Transcript

    → 10:12 AM, Feb 16
  • Season 2 Episode 2 - The Tiffany Problem

    We talk about different things with no coherent plan but talk a little about names and Ancient Greece.

    Transcript

    → 7:49 PM, Nov 4
  • Episode 101 - The Kids Talk about School

    Extensively.

    Transcript

    → 6:55 AM, Oct 29
  • Episode 100 - Testing

    Seems like the episodes aren’t on Apple Podcast, not sure why. Uploading this to see what happens!

    Transcript

    → 8:02 AM, Oct 26
  • Episode 71: Yumo talks about Mario Kart

    And screams at the end.

    Transcript

    → 9:02 PM, Jan 22
  • Episode 67: Grandparents

    Elise and Yumo go through some Little Talk conversation cards with their grandparents.

    → 12:09 PM, Jan 1
  • Episode 66 - We discuss what we'd like to try and what we dislike about school.

    Also, Elise ends the episode with a song.

    → 7:44 PM, Nov 27
  • Episode 65: We talk about a few things including Jumanji, Elise's new hair and Super Mario Wonder

    🐘

    → 9:09 AM, Nov 19
  • Episode 64: No screen time this weekend.

    Dad says he’ll buy the kids a toy if they don’t have any screen time this weekend.

    → 9:07 AM, Nov 4
  • Episode 63 - Family Little Talk Cards

    We have a go at using the cards more.

    Cards

    Transcript

    → 9:55 AM, Oct 14
  • Episode 62 - Little Talk Cards

    I bought some cards to start conversations with the kids and this is us going through some before our dumplings arrived.

    → 7:21 PM, Oct 5
  • Episode 61: Elise talks about Rubik's Cubes

    And we record on Zoom.

    Transcript

    → 10:32 AM, Oct 1
  • Episode 60 - Elise talks about some stuff.

    Daddy doesn’t say much.

    Transcript

    → 5:35 PM, Sep 28
  • Episode 59: Responsibility

    Elise talks about responsibility. Audio is a work in progress.

    Transcript

    → 6:23 PM, Sep 25
  • Episode 58: We're back, and we have a microphone!

    First, quick, try with our microphone to talk a little. See how it goes…

    Transcript

    → 11:50 AM, Sep 24
  • Episode 57

    Rain or sunshine?

    → 5:00 PM, Apr 24
  • Episode 56: Are Humans Animals?

    Elise and I discuss it briefly!

    → 6:27 PM, Oct 19
  • Episode 55: Elise Talks About PE

    Yumo jumps in too!

    → 6:47 PM, Sep 6
  • Episode 55: Elise Talks About PE

    Volleyball!

    → 6:46 PM, Sep 6
  • Episode 54: Off The Cuff

    We say some things.

    → 6:49 PM, May 6
  • Episode 53: Miss Hammond

    Elise freestyles but the microphone didn’t work so well.

    → 8:06 PM, Apr 13
  • Episode 52: 10 Little Dinosaurs

    Reading with Yumo

    → 7:58 PM, Apr 13
  • Episode 51: Lyra And Yumo Look At A Book

    Yumo tends to speak to me mostly in Chinese, even if he mostly understands what I say in English. Sometimes though he’ll use Chinese and English in a sentence.

    E.g. when reading he said - me jia you, which means ‘me house has that’ so starts English and switches to Chinese

    → 8:19 PM, Feb 23
  • Episode 50: Theme Park

    Big takeaway was Elise was braver than we thought she’d be. Yumo had to deal with not being big enough for some of the rides.

    → 8:10 PM, Feb 21
  • Episode 49 - Daddy Cuddle

    Daddy cuddle!

    → 7:07 AM, Feb 8
  • Episode 48: Ten Little Dinosaurs

    We do some more reading.

    → 8:30 PM, Jan 29
  • Episode 47: A Bunch Of Daisies By Kes Gray And Nick Sharatt

    Elise likes these books, Daisy has an active imagination!

    → 8:40 PM, Jan 23
  • Episode 46: Ten Little Dinosaurs

    Yumo and I read a story together

    → 8:17 PM, Jan 22
  • Episode 45: Little Beauty By Anthony Browne

    Also, hot dog.

    → 7:58 PM, Jan 22
  • Episode 44: Willy The Dreamer By Anthony Browne

    Elise talks about the banana laden book.

    → 7:57 PM, Jan 19
  • Episode 43 - Elise Records On Her Own

    She talks about Zog by Julia Donaldson

    → 8:06 PM, Jan 18
  • Episode 42: Book Review

    We talk about Willy the Champ by Anthony Browne.

    → 8:28 PM, Jan 17
  • Episode 41: Talking About A Book

    Yumo talks about some of the things he sees in a book. His Chinese is currently stronger than his English.

    → 7:38 PM, Jan 5
  • Episode 40

    Yumo has a brief chat

    → 6:55 AM, Dec 18
  • Episode 39 - The nutcracker

    Yumo plays a clip from the nutcracker over and over.

    → 8:05 PM, Dec 14
  • Episode 34: Elise Records Her Own Brief Episode

    About unicorns obviously.

    → 10:21 AM, Oct 4
  • Episode 33: Good Choice And Bad Choices

    Plus Yumo says some stuff.

    → 8:11 PM, Oct 3
  • Episode 32: Unicorns Are Real

    And they have a horn

    → 8:28 AM, Sep 30
  • Episode 31: Yumo Doesn’t Say Much

    See title.

    → 5:43 PM, Sep 13
  • Episode 30 “Wee Wee”

    Elise’s choice: Paw Patrol.

    → 9:21 AM, Sep 12
  • Episode 29: Ghost Sam

    Hi again. A quick chat before Elise went to sleep. Hopefully this is the start of more regular episodes. We’ll see…

    → 8:38 PM, Sep 7
  • Episode 28 - “Two Sues”

    Hi again!

    Elise talks about our evening out.

    → 9:46 PM, Jul 9
  • Episode 27: “Father’s Day”

    We try to talk about Father’s Day a little.

    → 4:13 PM, Jun 21
  • Episode 26 “Journey Number 5”

    We’ve just read Aaron Becker’s third book in the Journey trilogy that’s called Return. Though, at school the kids have been calling it Journey Number 3.

    It has really grabbed Elise’s attention. In fact, it has grabbed mine too. I keep seeing new things every time I read it and more than once have got into conversations about it with colleagues at school.

    → 7:07 AM, Jun 20
  • Episode 25 “scooters”

    A brief chat about scooters

    → 9:19 PM, Jun 19
  • Episode 24: “Late Night Chat”

    Picking blueberries and waiting up for mum and dad.

    → 9:40 PM, Jun 13
  • Episode 23: “Yumo Says Some Name But not Others”

    Yumo says some names of people in our immediate family but not others!

    → 5:47 PM, Jun 11
  • Episode 21: “You Eat Your Head”

    Elise reluctantly talks a little about school.

    → 7:47 PM, Jun 4
  • Episode 20: “Elise Talks A Little Bit About Going Back To School.”

    TLDR: See the title.

    → 7:20 PM, Jun 2
  • Episode 19: “Pizza Talk.”

    Elise presses buttons, Yumo wants to join in, I put it online regardless.

    → 7:37 PM, May 29
  • Episode 18 - “helicopters “

    Elise talks about her new toy

    → 8:29 PM, May 23
  • Episode 17: Dinosaurs Eat People

    Elise talks a little about dinosaurs.

    → 7:52 PM, May 21
  • Episode 16: “The Family Gets Nicknames”

    Following straight on from the last episode. Lyra learns what scruffy means.

    → 6:51 PM, May 14
  • Episode 15: Mr Tiny Man

    Elise gives her brother a new name.

    → 6:48 PM, May 14
  • Episode 14: “Zog And The Flying Doctor’s” By Julian Donaldson. Retold By Elise

    We’ve read this a lot this weekend. She did pretty well!

    → 8:00 PM, May 12
  • Episode 13: “Are we An Incredible Family?”

    Bit noisy this.

    → 6:59 PM, May 11
  • Episode 12: 爸爸

    A trial run of talking with Yumo… Who is on the verge of talking. He understands what we’re saying and knows what he wants to say, it just doesn’t come out right, yet.

    → 7:04 AM, May 10
  • Episode 11 - “Hi Natalie.”

    The audio of a video I took of Elise talking to a friend about a book we’ve read called Journey by Aaron Becker. Which I highly recommend.

    Still need to read up on how to use Wavelength more effectively though.

    → 10:59 AM, May 9
  • Episode 10: “汪汪队”

    Elise and Lyra talk about Paw Patrol.

    → 9:36 PM, Apr 30
  • Episode 9: “It’s Not A Hat”

    We talk about the time Elise fell off a swing.

    → 7:59 PM, Apr 29
  • Episode 8: “Cupcakes And Donuts.”

    We, briefly, talk about salad and vegetables. Which is apparently our families favourite food! Who knew?!

    → 1:16 PM, Apr 28
  • Episode 7: “Three Frightful Heads”

    A discussion of Room on the Broom by Julian Donaldson, both the book and film.

    → 7:37 PM, Apr 27
  • Episode 6: “We Played Everywhere”

    First time recording outside and not at bedtime. We went to a ‘theme park’!

    → 12:22 PM, Apr 26
  • Episode 5 - “because it’s bad times”

    Elise deviates from dinosaurs and talks about airplanes and cars and her grandparents.

    → 7:33 PM, Apr 25
  • Episode 4: “They’re All Beautiful”

    Elise shares her thoughts on Despicable Me.

    → 8:22 PM, Apr 24
  • Episode 3: “Paw Patrol Rescue everybody, the end.”

    Elise talks about Paw Patrol and sings the theme in English and Chinese.

    → 7:24 PM, Apr 23
  • Episode 2: School

    Elise presses the button to start recording. Elise talks a little about school and why she hasn’t been going. Yumo says hi too!

    → 7:12 PM, Apr 22
  • Episode 1 - Unplanned at bedtime

    After reading about @Chet’s podcast with his children, I kind of liked that idea. Then I listened to introduction to microcasting by @macgenie, briefly searched for microphones online, realised that for this month there’s free microcasting and decided I would chat to Elise today.

    Which is what we did. We talked a little, unplanned at the moment and this is the result… We’ll see what happens next!

    → 7:53 PM, Apr 21
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