remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

[DC]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

Sandif:

Just go dung the road and buy couple crocus bag of coal from "Coalie".

I remember this guy from my neighborhood and they called him "Coalie" too. Mi used to think say a him one name soh in a di entire island. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Barosa:

And if I knew where you were, I would have certainly come over and borrowed it. DWL....But what would your parents think? or could it be, that you would propose a clandestine location?

We would most certainly have to meet in secret because my parents would have my hide if they caught me with those books or even worse-you coming over and I am handing you one of my True Confessions..If you knew my parents(Dad especially) you would laugh too..waaiiiiii! What a whole a heap a UN-True Confessions mi would have to come up with.. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[barosa]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

By DC:

We would most certainly have to meet in secret because my parents would have my hide if they caught me with those books or even worse-you coming over and I am handing you one of my True Confessions..If you knew my parents(Dad especially) you would laugh too..waaiiiiii! What a whole a heap a UN-True Confessions mi would have to come up with..

Your comments reflect the general state of minds of our parents during that period. I had a hard time with my father. It was like we were always trying to outwit each other. The sad truth was that he always won and when he won he would extract his "payment" from my hyde.

Girls were considered to be more "precious" and so parents were often more protective and rightly so. The problem usually lies in the extremes they go to, in exercising their control. You were not the only one! DC.

[britisha]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

Oh yes, mi memba dem stove deh. In fact we still have 2 at home, for the roast breadfruit bit, and boiling food for our dogs...no we don't give then Kibble and Bits or Purina.... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] ...to expensive, well; once in a blue moon, but dem prefer yaawd food.

Back to the stove, nothing went to waste. The ashes was used to scour the pots and pans...clean as a whistle.

Mi memba when Jamdown3 di poas how wi used to haffi blow wood fire. When yuh done, yuh smell like the wood and smoke fi days. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Hall inah yuh hair.

The good ole days....well... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[DC]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

DWL...
Britisha: Oh yeah. Our dogs noh know nutten bout dem kind of food. A pure tun cawnmeal wid left over food on the side dem used to get DWL..an they were healthy dawgs-noh sicky sicky.LOL


Barosa: That was my problem. Too overprotective. I couldn't stand that. My parents had 4 of us as girls and one boy and I did notice the difference in their treatment of us girls. As far as I was concerned, boys had a tad bit more freedom than us girls. I was the rebellious girl and quite fed up with the unfairness that one day I told my dad: "I am tired of you peep peep cluck cluck behind me. Gosh, mi can't even breathe" My exact words. I'll never forget them-or what came after I said that. The consequences were not so pleasant. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Oh well..I joke about it now with him but he does not like to talk about it. Dem say mi was too facety. LOL...

[ackeegirl]

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boy, DC and barosa, given a choice btwn having over-protective parents and not protective enough parents, mi woulda chose my over-protective ones. Sometings wah mi see children get away with now..boy oh boy. *sigh*

I don't know if any of you have seen the movie Friday After Next, but I went visiting on the weekend and was surprised to see this mother and her 10 yr old son watching this movie together...this child already has issues with using his fists on others..(class bully) and I just didn't get it..as this movie has a man slapping his mother in fun...but dese are the times we're living in.

Tank Gad sometimes for my over-protective parents and extended parents..like neighbours who if you're caught by them doing something out of the ordinary, you know it's the same as being caught by your parents. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] yuh corner juss as dawk! DWL!

[tonirand]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

Juss buck up pon dis one an it really bring bak nuff memories. It cyaa dead so at all. Is a nice thread. Kudos AG


Roun about now we'd be taking in di breadfruit dem wa did put outa door fi 'turn' as soon as madda com frah maakit. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Every shoes haffi clean an socks wid ribban fi match well layout fi church tomarrah. Mi sitah couple years yungah dan mi an dem use to dress wi like wi a twin. It cudda bun mi yu si

Mi use to look fahwud to Seunday maaning brukfuss. Dat was di one day di ole family get fi siddung togedda an eat a proper maaning meal. (Inna week, smaddy always get leff cause wi did go diffran school an some school did far.)


Anyways, as mi was saying, Sunday maanings was nice. Nice Roas breadfruit an ackee an salfish. Wi did have bout 3 ackee tree an di more wi gi weh ackee a di more dem bear [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Nice choklit tea or Ovaltine or Milo...If anybaddy sick, fi den tea a fever grass [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Den aftah all dis, off to church we all would go. Mi always marvel how mi madda cudda cook dun so faas but ovah di years mi learn di skill

Den dere was mi dear sweet granny. A silent angel wen shi ready an a piece a terror wen yu cross har. Shi was di glue dat kept us togedda. Pity shi cudden live forever [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Anyways, life bakka yaad did nice an one a dese days mi hope mi can show mi piknie dem weh mi use to run up an dung an gi trubble an get 'grass bakkle' cut an den tun roun get lik to boot [img]/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[tonirand]

Re: remember when life used to be nice in Jamaica - part 2

Krissmuss!!

Gran market, white wash, paint job, fee-fee [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Krismuss cake, carolling, church play

Mi miss dem time deh [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]