Gives up in disgust.
Sep. 2nd, 2009 01:00 pmI’m seriously considering changing my chat programme. The chat programme within Gmail has always been a bit unreliable but now it’s just getting silly. I don’t get messages sent, and the people I’m chatting to don’t get messages I’ve sent the them. Even the email is unreliable – I sent a snippet of the new novel to two betas and neither of them replied – or so I thought. Now I hear today that one of them did email me back and that email is just… missing. So – what worries me – is how many more emails are missing, and I haven’t received? Important ones that needed a response?
Not feeling very happy with gmail today. not AT ALL.
And hardly more pleased with myself. Working through the first 40 pages of Mere Mortals:
Here are some things I have learned.
- Valets and footmen obviously don’t need permanent names. Just call them any old thing. No-one will notice.
- Crispin Thorne is obviously an alias, as he’s also known as Crispin Thorpe. Also he went to two different schools. His ex-boyfriend has two different surnames. Seems very shady to me. Don’t trust him, guv.
- Philip Smallwood has a twin brother Oliver Smallwood who’s mentioned once and NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. Is this another naming bungle on the part of the author or… dun dun dun….. something more sinister???
- Crispin is carried through the house like a rajah: I allowed himself to be taken through the corridors of the house seated in some resplendent splendour on a marvellous carved chair in an enormous sitting room. Really? They carried him AND the sitting room AND the chair?
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