Indications of a modest post-budget Christmas 2016

 –  Another plea for pensioners 2017

Fortunate still to be experiencing more months to my age and life span, I am increasingly wont to restrain my “celebration” of the Festival of Christmas.From poor, challenging childhood to teens the BG “colonial Christmas“ were a grand mix of European traditions and (British) Guianese elements- from the wintry jingle bells, sleighs, snow and frosty to masquerade, steel band tramps, breaking-up-the-house, renewal and church-going — and yes, our own delectable Christmas Cuisine. Later as father to four daughters, I did all that was demanded fairly or unnecessarily- to provide for those special Christmases “for the children.”

The children- my girls- are all adults and overseas now. And I have become more and more cynical over both the unrelated images and traditions