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During all this cooking activity, loud calypso music was 

being played, With a Christmas festive flare. Infusing 

our minds with the sounds of Christmas, we will never 

forget. Mummy would peak every once a while.

Concerned about the state of her kitchen, which was 

now taken over? This was the only time of the year she 

did not interfere with activities in her kitchen. got about decorating the living room area of the house. When the food 

was in the oven, everyone gathered around to help her. She was quite a boss, but we loved her all the same. The Christmas tree had to be lifted in and placed into position. We always had a very big natural Christmas tree. Last year’s carton with all the Christmas decorations was brought down and old lights were tested and all broken bulbs discarded and new ones put in place. 

Then came Christmas Eve night when we wrapped gifts and placed them under the tree. Oh! How I loved Christmas.Now all tired, we try to stay up as long as our eyes would permit to see when Santa would come with all our gifts. He only came after we drifted into a deep 

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Daddy loved Christmas. During this 

time of the year, he took control of 

the kitchen. Prepared the turkey, 

the ham the garlic pork, boiling 

the pigs feet and ears to make 

souse. Boiling down the beef for 

the pepper pot and using all of the 

rich spices. Not forgetting the rum 

punch and Punch a cream. We stood 

by like nurses passing the different 

cooking utensils to him the surgeon who performing 

the different cuts on the turkey, ham and roast pork.

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Still in the holiday spirit.

Up the road there steel pan players beating out sweet 

carols at a bouncy calypso beat. In addition, girls and 

boys, women and men dancing up a storm to the rhythm 

of Christmas calypso music.

Oh! Boy I love this Christmas season.

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Joining them was 

the scary “Mad Bull with his horns and fearsome face. 

Then there was the Granny long lady on stilts with 

her face painted white. “Man is fun.” The masquerade 

dancers and the flouncing musicians singing and 

chanting ‘Christmas comes but once a year so drinks 

your rum and tumble down, “Bato, Bato”!

Christmas comes but once a year so flounce if you 

flouncing “Bato, Bato”! Christmas comes but once a year 

so wine and tumble down on the ground “Bato, Bato”!

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On Christmas Eve, we excitedly took a trip to the 

shopping district. The roads were packed with shoppers 

and hawkers. There were vendors on both sides of 

the street making it difficult to walk on the pavement. 

Firecrackers went off “Bang! Bang!” Whistles and horns 

blaring in the esthetic Christmas air.They were tons of 

toys and lots of food for sale. 

Of course, one cannot leave out the masquerade 

dancers they were fun. Accompanied by flute players 

and drummers making merry music

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Suddenly while flouncing away with the 

majesty of Christmas Aunt Yvonne raised 

the hem of skirt and out flew a toy. Then 

with one, more whirl and toss of the hem of 

her skirt out flew another toy. To my brother 

and I these were the best of gifts of the 

season, nothing else mattered. Our hearts 

were so content it would not have mattered 

if we received no new gifts. We were 

completely satisfied. Her dance of an angle 

flowing with joy and Peace lifted our hearts 

with promise and happiness.

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In the sixties in Guyana was going through a 

period of political unrest. There was protest, 

rioting looting and thousands of workers 

were on strike. There were food shortages 

and many houses and business were burnt 

to the ground. These were frightening times 

for children. My aunt Yvonne whom we lived 

with then was also on strike. My brother and 

I had gone to live with her while; our parents 

were away in Ghana West Africa.

Therefore I will always remember the sad 

rainy day when the miracle of Christmas 

came rippling into our world. Our aunt 

Yvonne came bursting into our bedroom 

dancing and flouncing. Flouncing is a 

traditional dance step in Guyana, preformed 

mainly during the Christmas season

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 It was Christmas Eve and my elder brother, Clarence and I decided to climb a tall tree to 

cut down a few posts to build our little Christmas house. While my tall and on the way to becoming fat brother 

climbed the tree I stood at the bottom of the tree to point out which of the best limbs to cut. Suddenly I heard 

a loud “crack.” Then before my horrified eyes, Clarence came crashing down from the tree landing on a pointed 

tree stump with a loud “thump”. That then punctured his right thigh.

Bravely he held on to his thigh and told me not to cry. Quickly he ripped his shirt off and told me to tie a 

tourniquet above the wound. How that taught came to him, I would never know. I scampered home screaming 

for help. What a courageous big brother Clarence was. Lucky for us my parents were home, they rushed him to 

the Hospital. “Oh! For the love of parents what would kids do?” I Remember Christmas

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During the Christmas season, one of the traditions in Ghana was to build a 

trash house. This trash house was built out of the leaves from a palm tree. 

You then spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in it rejoicing the 

day Christ was born. This custom symbolized the humble way that Christ 

came into the world born in a stable. Although I must confess that, I was 

never able to spend the whole night in the palm house. I missed my bed and the nights were cold.

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I remember Christmas, when as a little boy I sat Under the Christmas tree 

and gazed at all the toys that Santa had brought for my brother and I. Me 

saying aloud “Santa must be a very good man”. 

Those words brought tears of joy to my grandfather’s eyes. At that age I 

had no idea that he was one of Santa’s great helpers, who brought all those 

wonderful gifts that were, adorned the bottom of our Christmas tree. The 

essence of Christmas, giving gifts of love. I Remember Christmas

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CHAPTER 13: ANXIETY

 With the thunder and lightning the rains came pouring down we rushed for cover; but there was nowhere to hide. We tried to find our Book bags with our food. They were lost in the mad dash of humanity to nowhere. We then decided to head home soaking wet from head to toe from the rain. Halfway home we remembered Kite Man dashed back to find him, he was nowhere to be seen. The Back Dam was clear of all humans, only broken kites and mud puddles and stray dogs going through left over food. We finally got home and knocked on his door. It swung open with a creaking sound. We then crept into the room; it was bare. Kite Man had vanished. Worried struck now we ran upstairs shouting for my aunt and mother Gertis. To be met only by silence we now began a frantic search of the house fearing the worst. Maybe Kite Man had used his infamous knife ‘Baby Gal’ and sliced Aunt Sybil and mother to pieces? Then we spotted a note which apparently had been blown off the kitchen table. It read ‘Gone with your mother to the hospital where she is having a baby’.

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CHAPTER 12: FINALITY

 Then with a running start we raised Baby Gal, straight up with her, pulling loop Kite Man made on her Baby Gal. Now there were only two kites left in the air and we battle a bad man kite named Pitt Street Bull. Twice our tail with razor blades crossed over his rope but he still was flying and dipping and crossing and coming for our kite. Pitt Street Bull’s tail crossed our rope three times. It looked like he was winning the battle. ‘So, we pretended we were hurt and started to fall flapping in the wind like a bird whose wing is broken’. Pitt Street Bull saw that and was coming in for the kill. The Kite Man shouted “Pull! Pull! Pull!” I pulled and balled the rope furiously, the rope burning my hands. I already had blisters. Our kite rose and just as Pitt was coming for the kill our tail cut his rope. We won the battle. At the same moment a big thunder and lightning flashed through the sky, Kite Man shouted “Lego! Lego! Lego the rope!” Away flew Baby Gal, into the thunder and lightning, razor blades sparking! Baby Gal was on fire! 

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CHAPTER 11: KALEIDOSCOPE

 When we got to the back Dam there were thousands of kites already in the air, kites of every sort, shape and size; box kites, bird kites, boy and girl kites. A buzz of excitement engulfed us. On one end of the dam a jukebox was playing loud calypso music and on the other a steel band was warming up. Kite Man, as our instructor, said “Raise the kite with the cloth tail fus, let’s see how bad?” Ten minutes after the kite was raised bad boys, bad men, and girl’s kites started to make an attack on our kite. Our kite was the best-looking kite on the dam and therefore the envy of many a kite flier. When Kite Man saw the attack he said, “let her pitch and come do like she got cut”. That we did. Then he said, “Replace the tail with the rope tail which we bring wid we”. That tail had razor blades placed strategically on its length and also broken sharp glass. We waited for a good breeze and like a plane taking off we flew straight up in the air. The bandits quickly saw us and so much coveted our kite they wasted no time and attacked immediately. In minutes we cut down two girl kites. Then came the boy kites which we fought off and eventually won over. 31 A big kite war had broken out! Four times we got tangled up and had to bring down Baby Gal, and another two times we had to cut and join the rope and bring her down because she got into some dangerous tangles. 

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CHAPTER 10: JOURNEY

 When we got to Kite Man’s room he was already dressed and waiting for us he had a broad smile on his face and his eyes sparkled with anticipation of the day. He wore a green suit with white shoes and said, “We go fly in style”. With breakfast over we headed to the Back Dam where all the kite flying took place. Our kite was so big we had to hitch a ride on a donkey cart and bumped our way to the Back Dam.

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CHAPTER 9: KITE FLYING DAY

 By morning (Monday morning Easter Monday) we had forgotten all about Kite Man's supposed deeds. Bright and early, we were up. The air was abuzz with kites. We headed down to the huge vat Aunt Sybil had in the yard to draw some water to bathe. (Vat water is the coldest water on earth). With the rising sun warming up the air there was no way we were going to get any hot water to mix. And the bath had to be taken outside down by the vat. So, we took one of those quick baths. A little bit of soap here and there, a saucepan full of water for the face and under the arms between the legs and a little bit on your hair to soften it so it can be combed, then we were done. We rushed upstairs to have my mother Gertis apply some oil on our bodies. Put on our very best clothes including our new yachting boots. We then headed down to breakfast, fried bakes with salt fish and hot cocoa; that filled us up for the best part of the morning. Aunt Sybil then filled our book bags with lunch for the day; some beef curry rolled up in a dhal puri; two bottles of five finger (star fruit) drink some sugar cakes and fudge. And an extra parcel for Kite Man. It was not lost on her that Kite Man was assisting us to build the kite and that he would be accompanying us to fly it.

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CHAPTER 8: KITE MAN PART 2

 Then we then named the kite “Baby Gal”. It was the biggest kite my brother and I had ever seen and the most beautiful. Only one thing disturbed us, was the name “Baby Gal”. Next the Kite Man said, “find some razor blades and broken old glass and bottles with sharp edges' '. With all these items procured and the kite completed; he declared “I am done now. How you all gon pay me?”  Big problem for us was we had no money.  While “Kite Man '' was building our kite he kept on rambling about the different people he used “Baby Gal” to slash. By then we had figured that Aunt Sybil’s boarder was the infamous murder who sliced up his victims.  However, the police could never pin any definite murder on him. Hence, he would spend a short time in prison and then be released. He was also known as the New Amsterdam Butcher Man.   While scratching our head he blurted out “I want Rum”!  

Well Aunt Sybil had a bottle of Rum which she used for black cake and to preserve fruits. So, we raided her cupboard, poured out all her rum and replaced it with some lime swank – (lemonade made with brown sugar). We now had the best-looking kites in New Amsterdam, but feared Aunt Sybil’s border was the notorious “Kite Man” known for cutting up his victims. This knowledge lingered in our minds. That night we hardly slept a wink. Both my brother and I had constant nightmares of Kite Man creeping up and cutting us into pieces while we slept. Once upon an Easter.

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CHAPTER 8: KITE MAN

The test kite was damaged from the journey, so we had no time to waste.  The next morning, we started rummaging through our aunt’s yard looking for old box boards to cut and make parts for our broken kite. We found a few pieces and with a cutlass started chopping down on the wood.

Suddenly we heard someone shouting at us. “Hey there! Hey you there!”

We looked round and there was this tall skinny man pointing at us. “Stop that racket, is what you all, think you doing?”

We replied, “We’re trying to repair our kite”.

 “Oh! I see” he said, “Come here let me help you all. I am the Kite Man. Wait here, Ah gon bring out my favorite knife Baby Gal! Boys she is the sharpest gal I ever had, when she cuts, she cuts real clean and smooth”. I use am to chop up nuff of them”. “Bring them boards, leh me help you all build a big man kite”.

His fingers were long, and his hands were steady as he chopped and planed the boards to be used for our kite. “Go get me some pace.  Pacie is a gummy sticky fruit that grew on a large tree in Aunt Sybil’s yard.  So we climbed the pacie tree and picked as many bunches of pacie as we could, as fast as possible, because red ants were biting us on all parts.  Red ants always bite you in parts unmentionable.   Red ants live in pacie trees, they love the fruit because it is so sweet.

Next we had to cut some bamboo to make the ‘bull’ of the kite.  We then asked our mother for a few dollars and ran down to Main Street to buy some kite paper to place on the kite frame.  Because the kite was so big we could not use our crochet # 0 twine, we had to buy a thicker twine more like a fine rope. Then for the tail we cut some old clothes and joined the pieces together. But the Kite Man said we had to get some rope so we found a big old rope in the yard and split it in two to make the tail. The Kite man said “I is a fight man and we gon battle any bad man kite that challenge we on the Back Dam tomorrow”. 

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CHAPTER 7: AUNT SYBIL’S

  

 

CHAPTER 7: AUNT SYBIL’S

 

We crossed the Berbice river in a ferry from Rosignol to New Amsterdam, an old town named by the Dutch.  Clarence and I trudged our way down to Saint Ann Street with our luggage and tattered kite.  We arrived at my Aunt Sybil’s house late in the evening, it was already dark and we were greeted with lots of love and kisses by my mother and Aunt.

 

Now Aunt Sybil’s house was an old time huge Dutch style house with a high roof, the ceiling space allowed breeze to flow through the house. My aunt’s house also had lots of windows and a bottom house which she rented to boarders. The house was also surrounded by a guinep tree and a mango tree and a dunks tree.   The dunks tree was so close to the house that with a reach out the window one could pick the dunks.

 

After a quick bath,  cold water mixed with hot water from a kettle and poured into an enamel bucket, followed by a quick rub down with soap from head to toe, a bowl to throw water over your body we hopped out the bath as soon as possible. Towels off, then on with the pajamas, we headed down to the kitchen for a hot dinner.

 

Aunt Sybil had a huge kitchen with a large table from which all activity revolved. We sat down to some fresh brewed hot  ground cocoa with raw cow’s milk and some Bakes with Salt Fish and two Chinese Cakes for sweetness.  I vow that Cocoa tea is the best in the world! Made with roasted fresh cocoa beans ground in a hand mill and served with hot fresh cow’s milk; just milked for the cow earlier in the morning it’s a taste to be savored for a lifetime.

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CHAPTER 6: THE BRITISH SOLDIERS PART 2

 

What we did not know was that Mahaica was also the World Headquarters for Sand Flies and Mosquitoes. The moment the train pulled out of the Mahaica station, colonies of sand flies and mosquitoes descended on us with the most vicious insect attack of on man ever. Sand flies will attack you in swarms on every exposed part of your body. They will find their way through your hair down to your skull and the bite every exposed part unprotected by hair and leave your head full of bumps; they are bad. The mosquitoes there will bite and drink every drop of blood you own by the time you reach Rossignol, you will have no blood and become pale.

 So, there we were facing imminent death when the two English soldiers produced the most complete defense in the form of a bottle of Citronella oil. They offered to share some with us.  We graciously accepted their offer. We rubbed that oil on our body from head to toe. We literally took off our yachting boots and rubbed the oil between our toes and of course on our heads, under our shirt and pants. It just takes one sand fly to get under your shirt and pants to have you scratching and itching.

My brother and I will always be grateful to those two English soldiers. Once upon an Easter. 

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CHAPTER 6: THE BRITISH SOLDIERS

 

With our spirits uplifted Clarence, our Aunt Yvonne and I began preparing for the big Easter Monday kite flying day.  Only to receive a letter from my mother Gertis stating that she wanted us to spend Easter with her in New Amsterdam.

 

The next couple days were now spent preparing for the long journey to New Amsterdam. We boarded the train in Georgetown, Lamaha Street in Cummingsburg to begin the trip. 

 

To our amazement and joy as boys we were in the same compartment with two British soldiers.

 

Guyana, then “British Guiana” was a sovereign colony of England.  The British army sent soldiers to help squash the unrest and riots and return the country to a state of peace.                           

 

Between strained snips of conversation, we got to know the English soldiers. They proved to be saviors to us after the train made one of its major stops at Mahaica. At this stop we are allowed to leave the train to stretch our feet and buy food and stuff.

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CHAPTER 5: TEST FLIGHT/2

 

The kites having been completed, mine was put to the test flight. It flew so high it hummed so loudly it could be heard for miles, my heart could not stop pounding with happiness.  Then out of nowhere a strong gust of wind blew and pop went the twine (Crochet #0) and away flew my kite. 

 

There was no time to waste. Straight away we plunged into action running in the direction of the falling kite.  The kite fell fast, and it disappeared speedily. We now had to go from yard to yard over fences fearing bad dogs and angry shouts.

 

Finally, we got to the yard of an old lady and asked her if she had seen a fallen kite.  “Yes” she said and asked us to describe the kite.

 

I slept well that night with my kite by my bedside.

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CHAPTER 5: TEST FLIGHT

 With Easter approaching fast and not having acquired a wooden kite to fly my brother, Clarence and I were worried.  We explained our dilemma to the gardener. He convinced us that our fears were unfounded and we could build our own wooden kite.

 

Up to that time we could only build ‘pointer broom’ kites -using the spines of the coconut tree leaves.  These were not very efficient kites. They were prone to breaking easily and had disastrous flying records. 

 

The gardener then proceeded to lead us through the steps of making our own wood kite with old pieces of board laying around our yard.  And assisted by my aunt Yvonne who provided us with some of her greaseproof paper and some colored Barbados Kite Paper we built two ‘singing engine’ kites with big bulls  so that they could hum in the air. 

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CHAPER 4 THE GARDNER PARRT 2

 

Because Guyana experiences bursts of heavy rain at any time and extreme heat and sunshine the grass grow at an aggressive pace. It therefore happens on one of those hot spells that a Gardner came by and offered to cut the grass on our aunt’s Yvonne’s lawn for a small fee.  My aunt Yvonne quickly agreed.  We as boys stood and watched in amazement as he used his scythe to swipe through the tall grass. Due to the extreme heat and humidity the Gardner had to take a break which he did. We sat around him in my aunt back yard and chatted with him and watched in amazement as he sharpened his scythe.

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CHAPTER 4: THE GARDENER PART 1

 The time was the early sixties there was political unrest in Guyana schools were on vacation and my aunt Yvonne was out on strike so was my uncle Wilfred. There was rioting in the capital Georgetown, and political factions marooning the streets. It was getting close to Easter my brother Clarence and I were facing the daunting prospects of going without a kite. In Guyana it is traditional to fly kits on Easter Monday symbolizing the resurrection of Christ from the grave. We were moping around the house feeling sorry for ourselves and being lazy.

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CHAPTER 3: Milky Part 2

 

Going to swimming in Milky was not however approved by my aunt Yvonne. Therefore after concocting lies as to our reason for leaving the house we would end up at “Milky” swimming naked as we were born. Best way to swim one felt a sense of freedom. After swimming for hours we return to the banks of the trench looking for our cloths which we hid under some shrub.  Only to discover to our horror that they were gone.  My older cousin while we were having fun had crept up and grabbed our cloths. This presented a big dilemma how do we get home without cloths?  Hands between our legs and over our bottoms. Picture that?  Total humiliation as we walked down the street the girls of the neighborhood to see us and laugh at us; then licks like peas when we got home. And if you don’t holler loud you get more licks not an easy proposition never the less, we have to make journey home. May be we wait till dusk? Still not good proposition dusk is chilly and cold mosquitoes and Sand flies bite your tail. 

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CHAPTER 3: Milky Part 1

 With the coming of Easter also comes Easter showers and Campbellville always floods.  Mr. Kerry our neighbor had a speed boat which he would float down to the wide trench at the back of our homes. The trench was called Milky.   And there gather all the boys of the street and we would go speeding up and down the trench. This was the water way where all the boys in the neighborhood learned how to swim.

Peter one of the older boys would lead us out to the middle of “Milky” floating on a log then take the log away and leave us in the middle. This called for desperate action frantic scramble to the shoreline suddenly we start swimming.

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CHAPTER 2 RAMDAS part 2

 

Most families are not up that early.  However because Ramada’s Father worked on the Sugar Estate he had to be up early. We headed to Ramras’s bottom house.  His mother had brisk fireside going the air was filled with the aroma of hot Cocoa and Coffee brewing, and Roti being clapped by Ramada’s sister. On the next side of the fireside, his mother roasted some Eggplant “Bologna {chocker”}. Two plates were prepared we sat in a hammock and ate using our hands as the cool morning breeze blew.

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CHAPTER 2 RAMDAS PART 1

 

Its 5:00am in the morning and Ramdas comes calling.  {You really had to know the guy. He woke me up by throwing tiny bean seeds at my bedroom window}.  I spring out of bed before he wakes up the whole house hold. It is also bird-catching season. The morning air is filled with different sounds of birds singing and chirping.  And just before sunrises you here the Cooks crowing around the neighborhood it is a festive time for all birds.  Ramdas and I plunge ourselves into the surrounding fields with high grass.  Ramdas already had a bird in a cage, attached to that cage was a mini cage with a trap door.  He also has some poles stuck with chewing gum remains. We wait as Ramada’s bird in the cage whistles away. We were hoping his singing would attract other birds like “Kiskadee” or a “Towa Towa”.  We were hoping to trap one or two in the little cage or on the gummy poles.

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