'Nuestra once/ Our Tea Time'

Denisse Lazo-González

On Saturdays I would have afternoon tea with my

grandparents, it was at that other town.

Mother stayed at home with the little ones. It was all

because of the cold. Half spellbound, I would watch the programme that my grandparents so much liked.

They had such a good time watching that programme, it never seemed to end.

"That shockin' ol' man's laughin' so rowdily he's gonnafright'n my li' girl,'

my grandmother always used to say, while I sat cross­-leggedin 

front of the TV set.

Our afternoon teas on Saturday, our onces.