Accidentally on Greek television saw the opening of an American crime programme NCIS and would you believe it? Death by exploding golf ball! The very device I used in DEAD ON TIME published almost three years ago. There really is nothing new under the sun. I didn’t stay to see what happened next as I can’t understand half of what’s going on in that programme anyway. I had thought a film was scheduled, RIVER WILD with Kevin Bacon and Merrill Streep but got the channels mixed up and the channel I actually wanted was off the air, just a blank screen. Greek TV can be the pits, it really can.
Am reading the proof copy of THE JOURNEYS WE MAKE and so far have come across nine or ten mistakes. They are all small and the question one has to ask is, is it worth paying to have them corrected or should one just go ahead and publish willy-nilly? It’s quite amazing how many times you can go over a manuscript and still miss out on errors and virtually every book I read these days has not been proof read to perfection.
Was wide awake before six this morning and got up to see how Sweeney fared during the night. Was quite sure I would find she had finally given up the ghost but no, she had moved from the blanket in the breakfast room and was lying in the lobby minus her pampers. I opened the garden doors in case she decided to go out and went back to bed but it was pretty hopeless trying to get off to sleep and immediately got up again. She is now completely blind and almost totally disorientated. She stands for long moments not knowing where she is and unable to move. I decided to put her to bed in the breakfast room last night rather than downstairs and put a chair across the steps in case she decided to move during the night, would miss the steps, fall and injure herself. I didn’t think she would but you never know and, indeed, finding her in the lobby this morning she could have walked in the opposite direction! It can’t be much longer. You sometimes have to look very close to make sure she is still breathing, it is sometimes so faint.
Read some more of the book over my morning cuppa and have nearly finished it without finding any more mistakes.
The news headlines have been full of the IMF planning to give enormous sums of money to Zimbabwe and talk of lifting sanctions on that benighted country. What is the point of either if Mugabe and his cronies are still there?