A Third Sighting

First a charity shop in Gloucestershire, then a beach in Fiji, now a street in Mexico city. Eva Holubk’s missing book, The Marmalade Jar, has been spotted once again.

Well, according to J-P Sertin anyway, who claims to have seen the book lurking in footage of the swine flu pandemic. ‘It was on News 24,’ he claims: ‘there was a shot of a man sitting on a bus, wearing a sky blue mask and reading a book. The book was clearly The Marmalade Jar’.

Bearing in mind that fact that this is a man who saw Marilyn Monroe at a South London shopping precinct late last year, this is not necessarily the most reliable sighting ever. But stranger things have happened – and I wouldn’t like to spoil a good friendship by doubting everything Sertin says.

Meanwhile it gives us all something to do whilst those eery images of flu-ravaged Mexico appear on our screens. We could fill the time waiting for the Great Vomit to overtake us all with ceaseless panicking – or we could scan the screens for another priceless sighting of Eva Holubk’s mysterious poetry collection instead.