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Welcome to DERYCK'S HOME.
If you know the refreshing effect of a dip down Macqueripe, this one's for you. If you know what it is like to izm-skizm to Fisherman's Scant, President Sadat, or Bumbling Love, this one's for you. If you know what Sister-Boy is, this one's for you. If you know about parang, pelau, curry goat, dahl and rice, jam and wine, free drinks party, Atlantis, Heritage, Rolls Royce, JB's, Palaver Place, King Papa Rocky, Mad Man Maddy, Rennie B "the Ice-man,the Nice-man", Professionals, LKC, Cin, Ubiquity, Galaxy, Brian Regis, Mario, Outlaws, Panthers, Bob, The Bomb Squad, horse coming down the line at Intercol, Jumbo, storming the Oval, Phase II when it was a "pan-yard" for everybody in Woodbrook, Robert Jobity, Tank on the trail bike, Brian Reese on the Kawasaki 1000, pitching marbles, beats and rescue, one-bounce cricket, small goal, chilli-bibi, salt prune dust, ice-block, chinee communion, dongs, copy book, khaki pants, licks from Marcelle and Sandy with the feather duster, Converse, Puma, Pony, Smith's, green-canvas schoolbag, catching wabeen in the river by Fatima, Blue Basin, The Coffin, flying kite and chikki-chong in the Savannah, watching horse race in the Savannah, getting jook by Timari in the Savannah, Newtown Boys', Newtown Girls', free swim in YMCA, Sharky, Derrick, Allister Gomes, Wiley, Chuckaree, Shorty, Neville, the Power Station making plenty noise, before the Foreshore, Jean-Pierre Complex, and National Stadium, all the dongs trees down Wrightson Road, John D, Ian Clauzelle, Deryck Murray, Joey Carew, taking taxi home from party, taking your girl home from party in a taxi, standing up outside the party till one o'clock, Reggie and the concrete boat down Chaguaramas, Red-Howler monkeys, Army playing in PSA, Brass Festival in PSA, walking to town after PSA, etc...this one's for you...because you have to be from the West! This is the start! Follow me now...as we go back!
I would like to post photos, reader memories, my memories of what used to be; those things that are dear to us no matter where in the world we may be. Sometimes, a little old talk by someone else can bring it rushing back.
This reflection is meant to bring out the feelings that we may have experienced but thought we were alone. Yes, we joked, pitched, broke-beach, stormed, limed, played, picked mango, bathed in the spring, went Mayfair, and grew-up together; but sometimes people get on as though it didn't happen or it was so long ago. Man, I feel like I haven't left Newtown yet; except, these days the benches feel kind of small.
We'll see where this takes us...you never know! My wife, Kym, is from Bermuda and she remembers the green-canvas schoolbag...so you never know!
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