Simon's Comments

I was pleased to see this morning that Simon had left a comment on my weblog under the Frankfurt entry. I was hoping it might be some kind words to thank me for helping him promote his blog or maybe to offer some useful advice on how to improve this blog as Simon is obviously much better at this kind of thing than me.

Anyway, it turns out that the comment just contains 2 links to different websites - I haven't had a chance to have a look at them as yet as I've been quite busy doing some administration but from the names of the websites "lovethebeast" and "zooaccess" I assume they are links to some kind of animal charity organization such as the RSPCA or the WWF. Simon certainly strikes me as the kind of person who loves beasts of all shapes and sizes...a very accommodating young man by all accounts.

Here's a picture of a monkey and a dog:




















And here's a picture of Hulk Hogan:

Frankfurt

I was in Frankfurt yesterday to do a bit of shopping at the Christmas markets and I couldn't believe what I found there. It would seem that Simon has a very innovative, effective and aggressive marketing strategy for his blog because Frankfurt, which is a LONG way from Weil, was completely covered with stickers advertising postcard-from-weil. When I got home I even found that somebody had stuck 127 of the stickers to the back of my Pierre Cardin coat and I never even noticed (I was a bit tipsy on glühwein though). Each sticker had a nice picture of Simon on it in various poses. I think I liked the one of Simon in his pyjamas best as it was a little bit sexy and seemed to say "Want more of this? Come, read my blog". What mortal could resist?

On a slight tangent, here is a picture of a shop with an open door:















And here's a picture of a shop with a closed door:














Not much difference, I think you'll agree...