Darlink, I Vant Your Blot

My Dear Fellows & Dear Princess,

This bus was just pulling away from the kerb. It is, as you may know, a proud reference to Wellington as the setting for "What We Do In The Shadows" and "Wellington Paranormal".

It also seemed somewhat appropriate. Caro got back from Mount Maunganui today and arranged to meet me in town so we could have blood samples taken at the same time.

"It'll be just like a date," she told me. 

I told her that her idea of romance was pretty bloody weird. 

It is just a coincidence that she and I both have to have blood tests. My doctor asked me to have a test. I suspect purely so she can look at the levels of cholesterol in my blood on a chart, then roll the chart up into a little tube and hit me with it while saying, "STOP - EATING - PIZZA!!!"

As for Caro, she is seriously thinking about having a gastric bypass and this blood test is prerequisite to the procedure. This is after Feefs had a band fitted a few weeks back. Apparently Feefs is doing very well on it, and so Caro is tempted to give it a shot. I get it. In the years we have been together, she has tried just about everything else* to lose weight, so this would be life-changing.

I asked Caro if she wanted to do anything else while we were in town. "Nah," she replied, "I just want to go home so we can watch 'Line of Duty'."

I understood. Partly because Steve and Kate are hot on the heels of "H", but mostly because you can't be too careful with vampires about.

S.

* Well maybe not quite everything. She has never swallowed those "poo pellets" for example. On account of I would pack up the cats and move back to Scotland.