It’s official: Hampermania has started.
I go to the supermarket and all I see are hampers. Big ones that cost a fortune or simple ones with all the products you never wanted to buy, all nicely stacked together, out of reach, beneath a plastic wrapping. I open my postbox and again, all I find is pamphlets of hampers. I move around Victoria and discover that hamper shops have sprouted all over town.
Hampers are everywhere.

So, what’s about the hamper that is so fascinating?
I gave the matter a little thought and noticed that most hampers are characterised by the same four elements: basket, straw, groceries and plastic wrapping.
Logic says that one of these four elements must be the catalysing factor.
Is it the Baby-Jesus cradle that contains all products? No, I can really do without that. In fact, I still don’t know what to do with the one I received last year.
Is it the groceries? Not even, they are the same ones I see everyday in the supermarket. Nothing more and nothing less.
Maybe it’s the straw beneath the products? Naa, definitely no.

So, what makes a hamper so much more appealing than a plastic bag full of groceries?
Let’s be fair, if someone presented himself to your house with a yellow, plastic bag full of groceries and told you that it’s your Xmas present, you probably would strike him off your list of friends.

There is only one possible answer: it must be the wrapping.
The wrapping?? But that’s the first thing we throw away?

Damn, had I known it before I would have wrapped myself in transparent foil for my last passport picture.

Gozoblog has been in my mind for few years.
I often thought Gozo needed once again its own newspaper, its own radio, its own TV and, why not, its own blog website.
A place where to write a thought or express a personal opinion.
An opinion about what? About anything. About hot topics as environment, politics or hunting.
But also a place where to write about past and upcoming events; where to invent stories, start diaries or publish poetries; where to comment the news or where to start new trends.

So Gozoblog is for everyone? Possibly yes. For all the ones that love Gozo, that live in Gozo or that were born in Gozo and are now somewhere far.
For the ones that have something to say and that are able do it in a civil manner.
For the ones that have fresh, brilliant ideas but nobody to propose them to.
For the ones that can make a change and want to know what people think about it.
For the ones that want to unleash their inner selves in torrents of words.
For the ones that like to read other people’s opinions.

What are you waiting for? Start your Gozoblog right away!
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