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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 

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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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