Postby TriP » April 28th, 2016, 9:02 pm
Local Texaco ~ Pointe-a-Pierre Residents - Children of the 60's
Memories of a child from Pointe-a-Pierre in the 60’s
The games we played ... Three Hole, Catch, Hopskotch, Pise, Tic-tac-toe, Marco Polo, Subs & Tops, Scooch, 1-2-3 Rescue, Kick the bucket, Splits (penknife game).
Things we made ...tractors (a stick, a bobbin, a piece of candle, a rubberband & a thumbtack), paper planes (rockets & gliders), slingshots, pea-shooters, crab traps, crab spear gun, box-carts, Bull kite (made with cocoyea, cotton thread, tissue paper, torn old sheet, flour, water), bamboo rafts, bamboo cannons, rainy season mud sledge made from a palm sheath.
Things we played with ... Fab1, Bat kite, Bouncer (Space Hopper), Footsie, Monopoly, Totopoly, Buccaneer, Bingo, jacks, wooden spinning tops, klackers, tennis ball games against a wall.
Things we caught or picked and ate ... catching sardines in your hands with bread, fishing for guabins and tilapias with a line using sardines as bait, shooting blue crabs with a homemade spear gun, pelting mangoes (mostly Rose), pomeracs (fruit & leaves), padeau, hog plums (ripe & green), tamarinds, cashews (fruits & nuts), portugals, guavas, coconuts (young & old), cutting, slicing and chewing sugar cane.
What we watched on TV ... Johnny Quest, Lost in Space, My Three Sons, Batman, Captain Scarlet, Land of the Giants.
Places we did stuff ... Fairy Woods, the rifle range, riding bikes in the desert, the sand pit, the bamboo patch, conquering the islands, Big, Middle & Little Piggy & the rest, collecting large gypsum crystals at the top of Casuarina Avenue, messing about around derelict houses.
Things we jortsed ... Klim milk powder, Jello powder, Mango chow, Tamarind Stew, Peanut butter.
Evocative Memories .. The sound of the cigalle chorus at dusk, the combined smell of detergent and rubbish behind no 4 Mess, the smell of a stray puppy, fire in the bamboo patch in the dry season, the smell of rotting Calabash, Jack Spaniard sting under your foot because you weren't wearing shoes, washing in the fire hydrant after playing football on a pitch as wet as a rice paddy.
