Butter as a life form

Posted on Fri 17 August 2007 at 01:09

Melissa had one of her routine check-ups at the hospital on Wednesday.  To think we had our visa held up because of Melissa’s overactive thyroid and her consultant has now cut her down to one tablet every second day, from one every day and she  thinks there is a reasonable chance that she may be able to come off them altogether  in another 6 months.  Good news all round there.  In conversation with the doctor, she asked me about my underactive thyroid – had I had it checked recently, which made me realise I hadn’t for at least 6 months.  I have been feeling really lethargic, easily tired and gained weight that seems reluctant to budge so there is a fair possibility that I need my medication upping.  I have arranged to have the blood work done tomorrow and will see the Doctor next week.  Hopefully that will be the answer to my recent lethargy. 

Hamilton City Centre seems to have been getting a facelift recently.  They have laid new pavements and installed new lighting on several streets and it looks really good.  The lighting is strung across the road in a festival manner and there are blue spotlights on the new pillars which give it quite a modern, cosmopolitan feel.  There are a fair few bars and eateries along the main city streets so it just feels a bit more welcoming now.  We went back to the little Mexican restaurant we found tucked down an alley off Victoria Street and ate there last weekend.  Pancho’s is tiny but the food is good and although the service isn’t particularly fast, they are friendly and nothing is too much bother.  They don’t have a licence but you can bring your own alcohol – which at least means you don’t get charged restaurant prices for it! 

We also ate in one of the food courts in the shopping centres recently and it is exactly the same as anywhere you have ever been before.  You could have been in any shopping centre in any city in Britain – McDonalds, roast dinners, sushi, Indian, Chinese, Coffee bar etc.  Reasonable portions, reasonable prices, mass produced food for the masses.  Neither stupendous nor horrendous – exactly what you would expect.

Hamilton has some quirky attributes.  There is an archery range which has a row of permanently situated butts (no smut please!) on its own site.  We have seen what appeared to be a club meeting going on several times as we have passed.  It looks like fun, maybe something to think about in the future. 

There is dog obedience training building set in its own grounds.  Again, we have seen dog training classes being held there and what looked like a show the other Saturday.

There is an outdoor (but undercover) rollerskating rink.

The statue of Richard O’Brien in his alien attire from the Rocky Horror Picture Show catches me out every time I go down whatever street it is on as I always forget that’s where it is.   And I always say to Steve, “I will remember that next time” and don’t.

The entrance to Hamilton Gardens has a rock formation covered in what looks like a blanket made of stones.  I imagine it probably has some cultural connotations but what exactly that may be is a mystery to me…

Somehow, the butter got left in the car for the best part of a week and it just set me thinking.  Left to its own devices for long enough, would in eventually develop into a new life form and have squatter’s rights in the car?  Or would it become securi-butter and gently infiltrate the unsuspecting arteries of would-be car thieves with cholesterol, bringing them death by butter at the first roundabout?  Or my favourite, the Lurpak chauffer.  Nattily kitted out in a silver and blue uniform, peaked cap and deferential manner at the ready, at my disposal to drive me out and about at my every whim.  And then, when I am ready to go home, he can come in have a bit of toast with me…………

Erm...

Posted by Wiz'n'Ton on Fri 17 August 2007 at 08:54 - Link

...you been out in the sun today, love? ;o)