• The Pamplemousse Collaboration is a group of friends up to no good, getting together to blog each week about a given topic. The topic is completely open to interpretation.

    This week's topic is
    Gaming

Here comes Santa Claus…

I haven’t had time to get into the Christmas spirit yet. Working at a deli, bagging kilo after kilo of king prawns surprisingly doesn’t conjure up fond memories of Christmas past.
I do have one thing I hope will not become a tradition: last Christmas Eve, I got fired. Seeing as I’m rostered on til NYE [...]

Chatawax’s thoughts on tradition

Urgh, tradition. We’ve all been affected by it, embarrassed by it, had to put up with it. Whether it be incarnated into Uncle Bert’s terrible 70s dancing or a barely tolerable weekend with the in-laws, tradition rears its head like an unpleasant punch to the babymaker.
My family luckily does not have many traditions, and of [...]

Family stories

Now, why we didn’t just have Christmas as a weekly theme, I’ll never know.
Christmas means a lot of things to different people, and a lot of people deride it for it’s consumerist aspect, and a lot of others deride it for it’s Religious aspect. Sometimes these are the same people, too. how bitter would you [...]