Meanwhile the birthday trip away with one sister had distracted me from another - my sister Anne's birthday is three days after Nye's and I hadn't sent her so much as a card! What's more it was a special birthday! She had gone to Spain on holiday though so would not have received anything any earlier, or on the day. However a friend and author advertised her book launch the day after Anne's birthday - a slightly behind time solution for me. She said copies of her prose / poetry book, Leaves Of Absence, a joint project with a photographer, were available at a bookshop in West Port. I hot footed down there the next morning, only to find there were more bookshops nearby than I had expected. I waited outside Armchair Books till it opened. The young assistant found it on line but had no knowledge of a stock there. Another shop nearby only opened by appointment. I tried Edinburgh Books but it didn't have it but thought Main Point Books would be most likely to stock it but was unlikely to be open. They were right. My quick solution wasn't so quick. Still I filled time buying a book from each of the second hand shops I had been in, that had been helpful. While I hung around Main Point Books, I noticed it was round the corner from West Port, on Bread Street, but that Main Point was also the name of the place it was situated, a junction of several other Streets. Despite its important name, and clear labels, the Main Point had passed me by all these years.