Comparison and comments by A.A. Fenty
The fifteen-year old fellow was actually finding out from his 66-year-old grandpa what grandfather’s Guyanese Christmas times were like.
The grandfather was very glad, even much pleased to oblige. (He had just treated his eager grandson to a varied, but much appreciated “combination”: boiled channa, apples and some ice-cream.) The amicable, sometimes revealing back-and- forth gyaff lasted for near to thirty minutes. In part because the grandad would burst into Christmas songs from time to time. Dutifully perhaps, Garfield the grandson tried his best to follow grandpa’s “tunes”. Many he – Garfield – knew not.
