still no news........

I have been having a terrible time writing this blog. Twice I have inexplicably lost it just as I was about to press the publish button It really is strange where lost emails and texts go to, I imagine them all drifting sadly about in limbo. I will have one more shot at it as it is now after midnight. I am back to the soft south. I love going up to Newcastle but I could never live up there.I am a southerner through and through. But it was lovely to stay with sister J and have delicious meals cooked for me and gin and tonics plus nibbles prompt at six and morning tea in bed. It was good to see great grand kids,little Arthur and baby Ossie (Marlo was away)and also great nieces Martha and Ellen. It was Julia`s 57th birthday on 21st August so some of us went to Old Jessie cemetery and took flowers to her grave. It is a very nice grave. A stone bench with beautiful lettering (chosen by Julia) and it has some lines of her poetry engraved on the side. Well we sat there for a bit and I remembered all the birthdaya at the Mill in the Isle of Wight, and though I felt tearful,I was glad to be there. We went for a nice meal afterwards at Live Theatre, one of J`s favourite haunts. I read a good book while I was away by the Irish author Colm Toibin, called The Blackwater Lightship. I really like his work. The book has stayed with me for days as all the good ones do. I am now reading the latest Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth and I am into it straightaway. Still no news of the b------w I can`t even bear to write the word. I am destined to wander over the face of the earth for ever sleeping on sofas and keeping my belongings in suitcases.