This week, feature writer Miranda La Rose took a trip down memory lane, as she recaps a December visit to her hometown, Santa Rosa, and nearby communities.
Towards the end of December during the height of the Christmas festivities , I was in a reflective mood as I travelled thrice along the Essequibo Coast and in Santa Rosa Village, Moruca, twice within a two-week period.
On the two occasions I was in Santa Rosa, my hometown, my eight-year-old granddaughter accompanied me. Hedr presence brought back a lot of memories of my own maternal grand-mother, Thomasa Torres aka ‘Gramma Poto’ and how she taught me a few practical things.
One memory was walking through the Two Miles Kumaka Road shortcut with ‘Gramma Poto’ on the way to her Four Mile farm, when I developed a bad bout of hiccupping. Out of the blue, my grandmother told me in a serious voice, ‘Ah hear you tief sweetie from Co-op Shop and ah don’t like it.’ The Co-op Shop was one of two popular shops in the Cabucalli area near to where we lived at San Jose at the time. I was most astonished at the accusation and immediately denied it. I was almost in tears when my grandmother said, ‘Yuh stop hiccupping’. The hiccups had stopped.