On 26 December 2010 00:01, Julia D'Souza <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wishing you and your family To you and your a Holiday Season filled with
> peace and love;
> and then great things in the New Year!!!
>
> Natty, Nelosn Na Nigel
>
For those wondering who "Julia D'Souza" is, she's the sister of Diego
Fernandes, architect Noel Fernandes and Assumption ("Assu"), who grew up
with us in the Saligao of the 1960s and 1970s. Diego and Noel live in
Saligao (in their neatly painted red-and-white and nicely renovated house),
overlooking the Donvaddo pond. Their sisters are in Canada, and Natty
visited the village after many years.
Welcome to the list, Natty!
We were their neighbours when young, and Natty reminded me how the two
sisters would occasionally baby-sit naughty us while our parents were at
work. Including on a day when an earthquake hit Goa, not sure it was the
Koyna-related one of the 1960s...
I remember them being fond of Konkani music in those days, when radio was
still a vital cultural link, and everyone tuned in to it (about the only
form of entertainment in our fairly isolated villages then).
Their brothers shared many a childhood prank with us -- including trying to
make a raft of banana trunks when the Saligao tollem was used as a water
reservoir, and retriving a sunken toy boat from the bottom of stream that
ran alongside our homes. The funniest was an attempt to keep eggs in a
non-functional fridge (remember: power didn't reach Saligao till about the
1970s, I think), and hoping these would hatch; the eggs were forgotten,
started rotting and soon burst leading to a whole lot of questions from our
parents and attempted cover-ups! FN
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