Christmas greeting photo

End of year emails. Christmas cards have things with snow, winter, jingle bells and so.  I wanted to do a Guyana Christmas photo walk but time ran out.

Stone jar in the family for three generations and used only one time a year to make ginger beer. I don't always put on the step to sun but I know that many Guyanese would have some memory or have heard of ginger beer, sorrel, peppersauce and all kinds of things 'sunning' on the step.

Thinking of that discussion at Moray House by Karran Sahadeo about the 'pictures and false memory' thing  in that this would only be possible when there is sun and when I could be bothered to sun the gingerbeer

But I don't know if they ever do this in any part of the word.

Happy Christmas from Guyana.

Comments

  1. Wil CamDecember 21, 2014 at 11:30 AM

    Happy Christmas, brother. Thank you for everything.

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  2. Vidyaratha KissoonDecember 21, 2014 at 12:01 PM

    Thanks Wil same to you.

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  3. UnknownDecember 22, 2014 at 12:39 PM

    Thanks for sharing this classic piece of domestic wares with us. And I hope the contents will contribute to a healthy and Happy holiday season. Christmas has come to mean so many things to so many folks these days , but one thing is constant is the concept of Sharing something with others, even if its time. Enjoy the "beer" (ginger) lol.

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  4. Vidyaratha KissoonDecember 22, 2014 at 3:36 PM

    Thanks Colin.

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