I emailed the editors about three months after I submitted the manuscript for information about the status. The editor emailed me back apologizing about the delayed handling of my paper. "Summer absences among reviewers and editors caused problems..". Furthermore, they obtained only two very poor quality reviews. He read my manuscript and sent it to two senior editors to look it over and "hopefully have a (favourable) decision in the coming 2 weeks or so". Two weeks later I got the dissapointing email that my manuscript was rejected after all.