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I’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?

Hmm. Perhaps there's a career in those A, B, C books.