Back In The Days We Played With Anything

August 11, 2016

Back in the days we played with anything and everything we could find. Rolling tires in the streets was my favourite. I remember we would put the black trench-mud in the tries as lubricant and insert two pieces of stick or wood and off we go.

The kaddie-ole-punch (and plastic bag with a string) and the match-box and colgate-box trucks were common. The streets in the evenings (especially around the July/August holidays) were filled with children playing “ketcher”, “tagga”, “sal-out”, “bun-house”, cricket and “war-break”. The good ole days…

Picture: Kids pulling bottle in the sand, Essequibo Coast, Guyana.

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2 Comments

  • Looking back from where I am now I find it amazing how romantic and idyllic my childhood in Guyana was. If I knew back then how precious my boyhood days were, maybe I would have savored it more.

    Mark Khan
    August 12, 2016 1:48 am Reply
    • Very true for many of us

      ThingsGuyana
      August 15, 2016 2:14 pm Reply

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