Epicurienne says…

21 November 2008

Gosh, I just realised that I haven’t updated Epic says for a while now. What’s been happening since July? Well… Monsieur and I jetted off to explore Vietnam for a couple of weeks at the end of the summer so you can look forward to lots of posts about that amazing country. I would have written more about Vietnam already but for the lack of time. You see, when we got back, we made a lot of redundancies at work, so there was mayhem in my Day Job. Then I accidentally won a trip to the Blog08 conference in Amsterdam by entering a London Bloggers’ Meetup competition. That kept me busy for a while and I’m just managing to get the posts about Amsterdam done now. Meanwhile, my readership has climbed nicely so that I’m getting 3500-4000 page views per month (still on the UP). And I’m having fun with a PR company called Splendid Communications, who’ve recognised my passion for food and are keeping me busy trying out some of their clients’ wares.

What’s next? Sadly, more redundancies, so more headaches and more late nights. I’m all set to try out Tampopo’s pan-Asian cuisine tonight, with Snog frozen yoghurt in South Kensington on my Must Try Next list. Then there’s the 30 day challenge from the people at Good Oil – more about that later, and before you know it there’ll be Christmas. But first we have to move offices at the Day Job. Ouch.

3 July 2008

Gosh, things are busy here. Finally, the credit crunch redundancy syndrome has hit my workplace and several people have already been let go with more on the horizon. Things are tough and look to get worse before they get better. Meanwhile, Monsieur’s mother is visiting us over the weekend so we’ll be busy seeing the sights with her. Being London, we have both a wet weather plan (museums and concerts) and a dry weather plan (parks and cruises). Luckily, there’s never a shortage of things to do with visitors here. Making the choice of what to do is the hard part.

Anyway, I’ve pre-written my posts for the weekend so will be posting away each morning before we go out (I hope) but I may not be able to comment much for a few days. Don’t stress, I will be baaa-aaaack, just like that annoying Poltergeist child.

Epic

7 May 2008

Well, after that deafening (or perhaps pleasant??) silence from Epicurienne, I’m back, and conscious of not having blogged much in the past week. Fret not! I have plenty to say, just need more time to say it. And out of principle I refuse to pay over-the-odds amounts for WiFi access in hotels, so I tried to look at this as an enforced holiday from my blog. It was almost as bad as quitting a bad habit. I itched and twitched and fidgeted and craved. Anyway, I’m back so get ready for the onslaught!  

 

27 April 2008

Hi Epicuri-fans,

Thank you all so much for visiting this site. I have amazingly gone up from 88 views in March to 466 so far in April! It’s hard to believe, and it’s all thanks to you!

Anyway, Monsieur and I are off to Paris and Brussels later this week. We’re going to be Big Kids for a (long) weekend and visit Parc Astérix as well as the Hergé sites in Brussels. I’ve never been to Belgium before, apart from passing through, long ago, on business trips that didn’t allow for much more than a cursory visit to a road-side café. I’m much looking forward to seeing the home of Tintin, the boy journalist, and visiting the stuffed horse at that famous bar, Le Roy d’Espagne.

If you’ve been to Brussels, please e-mail me with advice for what to see and do.

In the meantime, I won’t be writing as many blogs for several days while we’re away, but will be logging on to grab your comments and suggestions re: what’s what in Belgium. Obviously, I’ll write about how we get on as soon as poss, once we’re back.

Warm wishes,

Epic

16 April 2008

Just a quick note to say that yes, I am still alive, even though I haven’t been able to create many posts in the past week. To look forward to? More about Malaysia, some insights into playing Pollyanna’s ‘Glad Game’ and Epicurus on pain.

Please send comments… and if you would like me to write about anything in particular, suggest away.

Epic

5 April 2008

Hi there,

Thanks for dropping by and having a look at what Epicurienne has to say. It still surprises me that so many of you do!

At the moment I’m beginning to realise how big the blogging world is and finally feel that I have enough content to start promoting this blog. I’m almost embarrassingly excited because yesterday I joined London Bloggers Meet Up and signed up for their next night out. Can’t wait! Hopefully some of you will be there to teach me a thing or two about blogging. I admit I’m struggling with some of the page set-up here at WordPress, but that’s not because of WordPress; I just have to learn my way around the functions. I think I’m getting there (slowly) but I don’t want to go for the CSS upgrade until I understand the basics so please forgive the site for still looking so generic.

Yesterday my latest Amazon order arrived. Another cause for celebration! Inside was a comic-strip book called Epicurus – The Sage by William Messner-Loebs and Sam Kieth. It’s been very well reviewed so I’m looking forward to talking about it soon. My aim is to be able to write a series of blogs about life from an Epicurean perspective, discussing concepts one step at a time and how it all comes together in our own experience, so please feel free to comment and debate with me and other readers. That’s the whole point of philosophy, isn’t it? I’m still learning a lot about the teachings of Epicurus and I’m sure to find the odd thing I/we won’t agree with, but it certainly gives us all something to think about in this crazy, materialist, rat-maze of a world.

In the meantime, remember to LIVE AND LET LIVE. See you soon…

Epic.