0:00:20 > 0:00:23This story belongs to Illani and Somoraa
0:00:23 > 0:00:25and their nanny, Geraldine.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37It's a tiny tale about Nanny Geraldine
0:00:37 > 0:00:39and the things she used to do.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Now it's time for her to share her memories and take Illani
0:00:44 > 0:00:48and Somoraa on a journey of discovery.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Nanny Geraldine lives in Cardiff, which is in Wales.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Illani and Somoraa have gone to visit her.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03And they're all in Nanny Geraldine's favourite place. Her kitchen.
0:01:03 > 0:01:09- What are you two doing?- Making music. - Making music with my pot!
0:01:09 > 0:01:15And my bowl! This bowl is older than me. This was my mummy's bowl.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20- And do you know when we used to bring this out, Llani?- For Christmas.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24At Christmas. And what did we make, Somoraa, in this bowl?
0:01:24 > 0:01:28- Erm, Christmas pudding. - Christmas puddings, yes.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31We used to mix all the Christmas puddings in this big bowl.
0:01:31 > 0:01:39- What does Nanny do?- Cook.- Yes. In my family, Llani, we had lots of cooks.
0:01:39 > 0:01:45My grandad, he was a chef. And my mum, she used to cook.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47And now I cook.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50And they talked some more. And Nanny Geraldine told them
0:01:50 > 0:01:53about the old days, when she was a little girl.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Look, you can see where she grew up.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06I was born and brought up in Tiger Bay.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Food was very different in this community.
0:02:09 > 0:02:14We had Chinese shops, Spanish, there were Norwegians,
0:02:14 > 0:02:20a lot of Africans, a lot of West Indians, a lot of Asians,
0:02:20 > 0:02:24so you can imagine when all those smells mixed together,
0:02:24 > 0:02:29you'd walk from street to street and smell the most amazing smells.
0:02:34 > 0:02:40My mum and dad got married in this church a long, long time ago.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43And they were married for 70 years.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46My mum and dad were the longest-married couple
0:02:46 > 0:02:47in this community.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52It was my mum that taught me to cook
0:02:52 > 0:02:55and when I was younger, it was the thing you did.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00Every mum taught their daughters and their sons to cook.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05The food that Nanny Geraldine loves to cook
0:03:05 > 0:03:09doesn't just come from growing up in Tiger Bay in Wales.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Nanny Geraldine's grandpa and daddy were born on an island
0:03:12 > 0:03:14in the Caribbean.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18It's very far away from Tiger Bay, and very different, too.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Though she wasn't born there, Nanny Geraldine
0:03:21 > 0:03:23went to the Caribbean to live for a while
0:03:23 > 0:03:26and her children were born there.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Oh, look, there's Nanny Geraldine with her dad when she was young.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33What a lovely place to live.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39Now, let's go back to Tiger Bay in Wales, where Nanny Geraldine
0:03:39 > 0:03:44has something exciting for her granddaughters, Illani and Somoraa.
0:03:45 > 0:03:51- Girls, what's Nanny's most favourite thing that she likes to do?- Cooking.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54- And what else does nanny like? - Dancing.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59Oooh, when I was a little girl I used to watch my mum cook
0:03:59 > 0:04:02all the time and I would always be in the kitchen.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05In our house, we used to have lots and lots of music,
0:04:05 > 0:04:10lots of jazz music and reggae music
0:04:10 > 0:04:13and we played calypso music.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17Now the calypso music, that is the music from the carnivals.
0:04:17 > 0:04:22- Do you know what a carnival is? - Dancing on the street?- Yes.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26And what would they wear? The most beautiful costumes.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31Carnivals are big, big street parties with lots of music,
0:04:31 > 0:04:33singing and dancing.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35People get all dressed up in bright costumes
0:04:35 > 0:04:39and they have a great time parading down the street.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41They are great fun to watch,
0:04:41 > 0:04:44and we have street carnivals in this country, too.
0:04:44 > 0:04:49- What's your favourite colour, Somoraa?- Red.- Ooh!
0:04:49 > 0:04:52- And what's yours, Llani?- Yellow.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Ooh, they'd make lots of big, big costumes.
0:04:55 > 0:05:01You'd see lots of yellow and lots of red, and big, big headdresses.
0:05:01 > 0:05:06Everybody would look special. Shall we pretend we're in carnival?
0:05:06 > 0:05:09- Shall we dance?- Yes.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Come on then.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16CALYPSO MUSIC PLAYS
0:05:22 > 0:05:27Wow, how much fun are the girls having with their nanny?
0:05:33 > 0:05:36All that dancing is making the girls hungry.
0:05:36 > 0:05:41So Nanny Geraldine is taking them to the market to shop for food.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47A market is very different from a shopping centre.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Instead of shops, there are many brightly coloured stalls
0:05:50 > 0:05:53and they sell lots of different things.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58When your mummy was a little girl I used to bring her here.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02And when I was a little girl my mummy used to bring me.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05And her daddy used to bring her!
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Because this market's been here a long, long time.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Ooh, look!
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Look at all the fish.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Oh, look, Somoraa. We're going to buy some fish now.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Will we buy some saltfish?
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Nanny Geraldine will use the saltfish to make fishcakes,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23which is a Caribbean dish.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25It reminds her of when she lived there
0:06:25 > 0:06:28and a dish her dad loves to eat.
0:06:28 > 0:06:33That piece of saltfish, there, please.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36See, we're going to buy that big piece of saltfish.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39OK, thank you.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Thank you, Nanny.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43NANNY CHUCKLES
0:06:46 > 0:06:49There's so much more for sale in the market other than fish.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Have a look at this.
0:06:53 > 0:06:58Oooh, look at all this fruit. Shall we make some fruit kebabs today?
0:06:58 > 0:07:02- Yes.- Shall we buy... What's that, Llani?
0:07:02 > 0:07:03A mango. Yes.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08And where was Mummy born?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10- Barbados.- Right.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14And my friend used to have the biggest mango tree.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17- Shall we have two of these?- Yes. - And what else shall we have?
0:07:17 > 0:07:20- Shall we have strawberries?- Yes.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Shall we have strawberries?
0:07:23 > 0:07:28- OK, shall we have... Do you know what these are, girls?- No.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31- Do you know what these are? - No.- These are kiwis.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- Shall we have some?- Yes. - Yes, we'll have some kiwis.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37- And, shall we have a melon?- Yes.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39- Who likes melon?- Me.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42- Which one's the melon?- That one.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45That one up there, yes, we'll have a melon, shall we?
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Who's going to carry this one? Somoraa? OK.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52That's £3.80, please.
0:07:52 > 0:07:57- Oh, lovely, thank you. Who's going to hold this big, big bag?- Me.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- Somoraa, can you hold it?- Yeah.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- And 20 pence change.- Thank you.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04- Thank you.- Say, bye!- Bye.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09All that fruit looks scrummy.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20Nanny Geraldine loves cooking and eating outdoors.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23It reminds her of the Caribbean where she could get fruit
0:08:23 > 0:08:25straight from the trees.
0:08:27 > 0:08:32And buy fish fresh from the fishermen on the seashore.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36Eating freshly-caught fish on the beach is the perfect evening meal.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40Now Nanny Geraldine is going to show the girls how to cook
0:08:40 > 0:08:43her dad's favourite Caribbean fish dish.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46And they're going to prepare it outside in the sun.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- What are we going to make now, girls? - Kebabs.
0:08:49 > 0:08:54We're going to make fruit kebabs, and we're going to make fishcakes. OK?
0:08:54 > 0:08:58First, Nanny Geraldine needs to take the skin off the fish.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04Are you watching while I take off the skin? Oooh.
0:09:04 > 0:09:09Look, Nanny Geraldine is using her favourite old bowl again.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13We're going to take a piece of fish and this bowl, yeah?
0:09:13 > 0:09:17I'll come round here. We're going to break off
0:09:17 > 0:09:20- little pieces of fish like that. Can you do that?- Yeah.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24- And can you do that, Somoraa? - Yes.- So shall we all do that?
0:09:24 > 0:09:29Into the bowl. OK, we'll move the bowl in the middle.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32So we're going to do little, little pieces, yeah?
0:09:32 > 0:09:34And break them into the bowl.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38- There you go. Take a little piece. - This is a tiny piece.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40That's a tiny piece.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Right, we've done all our fish
0:09:42 > 0:09:45so that's ready for making our fishcakes.
0:09:48 > 0:09:53Oh, what's in that bowl? There's onions, pepper, thyme and parsley.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55And Nanny Geraldine is adding it to the fishcake mix.
0:09:57 > 0:10:03And then, we're going to add some flour, yeah?
0:10:05 > 0:10:09- So we're going to add some flour. - It's funny. Looks like snow.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13It look likes snow? And then, we're going to mix it in.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Urgh, it's horrid. Green.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23And then we're going to mix it in.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Then we're going to add a little bit more water, like that.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31- Green again. - It's going to be very green.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34- What do you think makes it green? - The water.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38No, the parsley, yeah.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Yeah. This is ready for us to cook now, to make our fishcakes.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48Are you ready, girls? Let's get cooking.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55- OK, girls, are we going to fry these fishcakes?- Yeah.
0:10:56 > 0:11:02- And are we going to eat some?- Yeah. - Who likes fishcakes?- Me.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05Right, let's get frying.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09Somoraa, can you see?
0:11:09 > 0:11:16Wow, look at the fishcakes sizzling away in the pan. Hot, hot, hot.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Be careful, Nanny Geraldine.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Yum, they're good to go.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26- Look, fishcakes are ready, girls. - Wow, they look good!
0:11:26 > 0:11:32- Do they look good?- Yeah.- Do they look yummy?- Yeah.- Oh, smell them, Somoraa.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37- Oooh, shall we let them cool before we eat them?- Yeah.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39I can't wait to have one, can you?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Now it's time for pudding.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45What does Nanny Geraldine have in store for the girls?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Let's find out.
0:11:49 > 0:11:54- Now we're going to make some fruit kebabs.- Kebabs!- Oh, yeah!
0:11:59 > 0:12:03What colourful fruit the girls picked from the market.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Juicy, fruity kebabs. What fun!
0:12:06 > 0:12:11Illani's finished first and it looks yummy.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18The fruit kebabs are looking good, the fishcakes have cooled,
0:12:18 > 0:12:21and now the taste test. Over to you, girls.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27- Look what we've made. Are we going to have some fishcakes now?- Yeah.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31- Ooh, Somoraa, do you want to have a fishcake?- Yeah.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35Go on then, you take one. And put it on your plate.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Llani, are you going to have a fishcake?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41I knew you were going to take that double one.
0:12:41 > 0:12:46- I'm going to have a fishcake, too. Shall we eat them?- Yeah.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53- Very soft.- Ooh, do you like them?
0:12:53 > 0:12:57- Yeah.- Yeah.- How does that taste, Llan?- Nice.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59- Hmmm, are they yummy, Somoraa?- Yeah.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06- What was the best thing you've done today, Llan?- Making fishcakes.
0:13:06 > 0:13:11- Making fishcakes? Did you like making fishcakes?- Yeah.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15You have to teach your mummy, now, to make fishcakes.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19- And you, Somoraa?- Making the fruit kebabs.- Making the fruit kebabs?
0:13:19 > 0:13:23Thank you very much and what was the best thing for you?
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Well, spending the day with Llani and Somoraa,
0:13:27 > 0:13:31and going to the market, cos I love going to the market shopping.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Can we have a nice big hug?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36What a fabulous heap of fun.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40That was Illani, Somoraa and their Nanny Geraldine's tiny tale
0:13:40 > 0:13:45about the things Nanny Geraldine used to do, and the fun she had.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48And why she has a big, old cooking bowl.
0:13:48 > 0:13:53Nanny Geraldine has shared her story with Illani and Somoraa,
0:13:53 > 0:13:57and now Illani and Somoraa are starting their own story.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Do you know someone who has a story to share?
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