Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt.
St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas,
06 of February 2021. No.1002
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Dear
Friends,
Here is the second issue with the new format,
this one is sent out as an additional issue because news demands it.
Shall keep on sending additional issue as long
I have news to publish.
Your generosity will help to increase the
number of issues per month.
I thank those that have asked and have send in
funds, some have asked to remain anonymous.
At the end of this issue you will find the
instructions to send funds, I know your limitations.
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Bread from
heaven, baked by the monks!, roast beef slices with minted jelly, honey with
bees buzzing and climbing in and out the jars, cocoa, spaghetti, ravioli,
vegetable platter,....
You got it. The
bread was great, roast beef cut thin. Second share please.
Gerry right.
Those I remember, too the cheese. Them triangular tings. The beef sandwiches I
recall. I remember saturdays was speghetti and meat balls for lunch. Hated that
but love it now. Weird.
Saturday
was break away day after lunch. 12.30 in Planet. Johnny Garcia, Stephen Aboud,
Mario Gangoo and myself. Hide in a box drain already as Cutty was passing in
the bus. Another time Mario reached back up drunk as a lord. Was tough sobering
him up.
Johnny Garcia
above
Tea time ah Exel
to wash down the buns
Yuh know I found
the Excel was actually nice, especially the orange one.
agree.
I remember going
Planet with you and Stephen Aboud running down the trails we made the day before.
Man sweating for so when we reach Planet. The good ole days.
Hey....doh forget
we boy....Specs......dem......Saturday night movies was winners!!! Ah remember
night of living dead.....!
Dat night ah
couldn't sleep!
I liked the
lobster and T bone on a saturday and curry crab and dumpling on a Friday...
Ass!
Yu like crap eh! Lobster, T-bone and curry crab. SMH! Next yuh saying steamed
kingfish and coo coo.
That was on a
Wednesday...u forget?
No Neil. Yuh
enjoyed it though.
I remember one
lunch time. As we sitting ready to eat, an earthquake occur. All the Venes run
outside and Trinis follow them.
Remain inside
alone with me. Both of us helped ourselves to their meat. They were so scared
from a recent earthquake they had in Venezuela while school was out for
holidays.
Did Wayne Chang
bite anybody dick off? He had told me when he went to another school in town
and got into a fight he did what ever it took to win. That included biting your
dick off if needed.
Who served the
meals? Was it the prefects or the girls working in the kitchen
Women cooked and
the girls served
The lunches were
good
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[Sent by Alan Date, if you would like to be put
in the mailing list, write him. Ed.]
Fri, 29 Jan, 18:56
Shalom
World (news), 29 Jan. 2021 - from Poland, Philippines, Venezuela
1) Poland: near-total ban on abortion
https://youtu.be/SAmfE0EtbyQ?t=13
2) Philippines: Priest murdered, RIP
https://youtu.be/SAmfE0EtbyQ?t=122
3) Venezuela: beatification of Dr.
Hernandez,
'Doctor of the Poor' (in Caracas,
during Spanish Flu) https://youtu.be/SAmfE0EtbyQ?t=266
"So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right
hand." - Isaiah 41:10
Important: If you forward this email, kindly
i)
delete all names & email addresses, including
mine; and,
ii)
ii) use the Bcc option when forwarding
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All the best, George!
You and your big heart could see me getting
more involved in the Old Boy's...and, one day, I hope we get to meet (And big
thanx to Nigel for introducing us).
Alan
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GEORGE MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net>
Thu, Apr 23 at 7:05 AM
WOW……AM SPEECHLESS
Thank you very much Alan for your kind words,
good wishes and prayers…….
We have become great friends indeed.
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dmitch@anguillanet.com
Sat, 2
Jan, 18:13
Hi, Gregory,
It is so good to hear from you,
and to receive your news.
I am copying this to Ladislao
since the thanks about the Circulars really belongs to him.
Interesting that you also kept
Morocoys.
I picked up somewhere that they
came from Venezuela where they were called the Mata Mata.
One of the old boys, Nigel Boos,
pointed out to me that the Mata Mata are a completely different species, so I
have had to change all my stories about the Amerindians canoeing up the islands
with stacks of Mata Matas lying on their backs, intended to stock the islands
with easily available meat for their return visits.
In Anguilla they are found
everywhere.
The entire island is covered with
scrub and they go and pass at will, occasionally getting squashed while
crossing a road.
I have always had a few of them
in the yard.
At one time there used to be
about 30 in the back where I kept up to 12 peafowl.
However, I have now lost the last
of the birds to hurricanes, and the number of tortoises has dwindled to about
20.
Small ones a day old usually
appear a day or two after the first heavy rains each year.
I suspect they know to keep quiet
inside the shell until the rains bring the likelihood of stuff they can eat.
We feed them kitchen scraps and
branches of green leaves from time to time, since there is not much by the way
of grass growing in the back of our yard.
Here’s wishing you all the best
for the New Year.
I hope the virus keeps far away
from you and yours until the vaccines have had a chance to come into effect.
Don
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From: gregory
milne <gregorymmilne@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, 2 January
2021 13:17
Subject: Re: Christmas
Letter
Dear Don,
Happy New Year to both you and
your wife Maggie and to all your loved ones.
I hope and pray, that 2021 will
be a more positive and indeed pleasant year for us all.
Thank you ever so much for your
regular Circulars, which I always look very much forward to receiving and
reading.
Interestingly, my family's home
was actually the fourth house away from Mt St Benedict, so I was always able to
see our house from a distance.
Thus, if you were to stand at the
Abbey School and look out onto the valley before you (which appeared as
tropical rain forest), with the view of the plains of Central Trinidad; well,
our house would be the fourth house from the Mount.
I attended the Abbey School
(MSBC) from 1975 to 1982, with many fond memories. I have been living in the UK
from 1983 to present.
In your Christmas letter, I saw
that you appear to have morocoys (morocois) as pets.
I too use to keep morrocoys as
pets when I lived in Trinidad, which was influenced by my great uncle Irvine
Cook.
I developed a sick obsession for
turtles, terrapins and tortoises and had at least three specimens as pets, with
morrocoys being my favourite.
What I want to ask you is whether
you have been successful at breeding these reptiles and how many you have in
your herd?
This is only a curiosity of mine,
as I remain quite fascinated by them.
Thank you for all the work that
you do for the former / old boys of Abbey School and for keeping the community
informed and supported.
With best wishes to you and your
family,
Gregory
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gregory milne
Sat, 2
Jan, 19:27
Dear Don,
Thank you ever so much for your
speedy reply to my email, which is greatly appreciated.
My apologies to Ladislao,
regarding the Circulars.
For some reason, I tend to
associate both yourself and Ladislao with the Circulars.
I enjoyed reading about your
friendly tortoises which frequent your garden.
This was very interesting for me
to read, as I remain quite fascinated by these gentle reptiles which occupied
quite a few years of my youth!
I was however sorry to hear about
your treasured flock of peacocks and the loss of these beautiful pets from the
ghastly hurricanes.
That must certainly have been a
very sad and distressing experience for both yourself and Maggie to go through
and they are such beautiful and aristocratic birds.
In fact, I had read of this
experience in your Christmas Letter.
I remember visiting a peacock
farm (or perhaps I should say a farm with a huge flock of peacocks) in Tobago,
when I was a teenager.
That was about 40 years ago!
I'll never forget seeing a
totally white peacock (presumably an albino bird); seeing all those peacocks
was such an absolutely beautiful sight!
I know Nigel Boos very well.
However, I know his brother John
Boos particularly well (Fr John), as I was very close to their beautiful mother
Lady Marjorie Pierre (who I called Auntie Marjorie), when she was alive and
when she lived in Berkshire, England.
Fr John would often come to visit
his mother and I got to know him quite well during his visits to the UK.
She then went to live in Canada,
where she died.
Coincidentally enough, it was in
fact Auntie Marjorie's brother-in-law (Irvine Cook) who was an extraordinary
breeder of morrocoys.
He had an amazing and incredible
number of morrocoys in his large garden (in St Augustine, not far from Mt St
Benedict); he had morrocoys, from large adults to hatchlings- all different
ages and sizes.
Irvine would have been Nigel's
and John's uncle by marriage.
Thank you for your kind New Year
wishes to me and I wish the very same to both you and Maggie and to Ladislao
and his family.
God bless and best wishes,
Gregory
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EDITED by Ladislao Kertesz, kertesz11@yahoo.com, if you would like to subscribe and be
in the circular’s mailing list or if you would like to mention any old boy that
you would like to include, write.
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Photos:
71UN0001JOUVERT, an invitation
95UN0010KNIGHTHOOD, By Queen Beatrix, Fr,
Augustione, Fr. Benedict and Fr. Cuthbert
59UN0001BEDFORD, A similar truck used at Mount
in 1959
60LK0001LKEGRP, Michael Howard, Ladislao
Kertesz, Giuseppe Braggio and Fr. Cuthbert
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