Where do I go from here?

I have been mulling about this for a while and had many discussions with other fellow bloggers and friends. The time has come for this blog to retire since I have moved on, and it has become a bit of a chore to try and drag up anecdotes and other occurences to fill in these entries to match the persona I started out with here. I have, however, set up a new blog and will be posting from there from now on. It feels right that embarking on a new chapter in life, a new blog is required.

I will be sticking with Blogger for now while I play around with other hosting sites and decide which one suits me the most.

So, from SimianExist, we now move on to the next stage of evolution:

HomoSimian

See you there!

Where in the world is Oakdale?

This appeared in a side bar link and I'm intruiged about this piece of literature that panders to local residents. I think I'm going to start writing a book that all the Swiss-Romandes would be dying to read.

Chapter 1

Etienne looked at the clock. It was precisely 11.47 and 23 seconds. 'Only one minute and 7 more seconds before my pasta will be done' he thought. 'perhaps I should wash my hands...'

Happy Old Year!

Hi y'all, happy old/new year. Not much excitement there given all it seems to be is still gloom in the news. However, some interesting things have happened:

- The weather here has not been above 0°c since New Years Eve.
- I am shamefully addicted to the trainwreck of a website called GOOP which is hosted by none other than Gweneth Paltrow.
- I have joined a gym (yes, a gym) and am now going 3-4 times a week. Along with my non-drinking regime, and that OH and I have cut out red meat from our diet for now, along with some white meat (fish is still on the menu) I'm expecting the weight to melt away. It still hasn't shifted.
- My gym is full of really f***ing hot pieces. And it has a steam room, and a sauna. My last memories of a steam room & a sauna date back to 2005, pre-OH, and lots of naughtiness. That was also the time where in my haste to get away from a very keen sailor I opened the wrong door and found myself in an alleyway surrounded by bins and me wearing just a towel around my waist. In winter. And the door had shut tight on me with no way to get back in apart from going round the building again and through the entrance.
- I baked a loaf of bread from scratch. It was pretty easy but I panicked with the yeast when it smelt like horrid old gym kit but I looked it up online and it said that it was normal. I need to get a bread tin because I just flopped the dough onto a baking sheet to rise, and it rose upwards as well as outwards, and I ended up with something resembling a section dead coral reef. I think the hastily added sesame and sunflower seeds at the end contributed to the dead barnacle look.
- I'm not making any resolutions out aloud. I will go about them and if I succeed I can be smug, but if I fail, then at least no one will know that I attempted it.

Yes, Happy New Year to you all...