OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929985

Metadata
Title:		2013-04-02_PLT01
		0116-20130802 - 2013-04-02_PLT01
		Indigenous language documentation in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Contributor:		Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq
Contributor (consultant):		Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq
Contributor (recorder):		Jan (Yan) Marquis
Date:		2013-04-02
Description:		PLT01 talks about: speaking a little bit of Guernesiais to his granddaughter; his background, large family living at Donkey Hill in St. Andrew’s, moving to Torteval when 5 years old; speaking Guernesiais at home when child; speaking to siblings in Guernesiais; his parents’ and grandparents’ backgrounds, a big family; his father who had a work related accident and who borrowed money to keep family; his brother regularly coming home in the early hours having been drinking, and his father’s response; Torteval Douzaine, starting out as junior procureur and working up to being Dean; what the Douzaine does, refuse collection, reading Billet d’Etats; building applications and bornéments; organising parish events, the Queen’s Jubilee party; reinstating a signal mast at la Varde; the nature reserve; light on church, time capsule; raising funds and Torteval sense of community; contents of the time capsule, the governor attending the event at signal rock (La Varde), raising the flags and going back the Imperial for a reception, having had heart surgery (PLT01) and still attended event; parish cantons and parish divisions; a sketch of a park with people in it, football; a sketch of a house and garden with people in it; not having cats now, nor dogs; dog mess in the parish (some profane language), children; cats burying their excrement; a sketch of people at a table outside with a parasol; the day’s (02/04/13) weather; shell fish and enjoying preparing it, but not eating it; buying crustacea for parish Jubilee party, and friend’s evening BBQ; meals at home when he was younger; Clara Jehan’s (CJ01) 103 birthday and other resident’s of home, sudden death of CJ01’s son in law on day of Jubilee party; what he did on the (02/04/13) day; siblings also having heart problems; working life, retail, Torteval Stores - working for his uncle Bill, then Coop, Best Foods, then Airport shop until WHS bought it, unhappy with changes so undertaking all kinds of small jobs, missing meeting shop customers; stories about customers, one whose home was unkempt, and who had having no States pension; serving in the shop and how things have changed; changes to bus service and routes; paid parking; Torteval church lights.
		Language_Name: Guernesais Language_Region: Europe Language_Country: UK Project_Status: Complete Year: 2009 Start_Date: 2009-10-01 End_Date: 2010-07-31
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929985
		SG0021
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI929985%23
Publisher:		Julia Sallabank
		School of Oriental and African Studies
Subject:		Dialogue
Type:		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929985
DateStamp:		2016-09-26
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Search Info
Citation:		Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder); Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq; Patrick (Pat) Le Tocq (consultant); Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder). 2013-04-02. Julia Sallabank.