Author Archives: Scribe Doll
Odds & Ends: English Houses
English houses are an infuriating combination of the cosy and the absurd. There are few pleasures comparable to walking home down a street lined with traditional-looking English houses. Diminutive in height, sloped roofs as observation decks for modulating blackbirds and … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, english houses, katherine gregor, observations, scribe doll
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Odds & Ends: Tristan and Iseut
It was a book with a dark blue cover, with a ghostly picture of a Mediaeval ship, in a paler blue and grey, on the front. My mother had brought it for me from the local library, in Nice, as … Continue reading
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Tagged academie francaise, celtic legends, french literature, iseut, isolde, joseph bedier, katherine gregor, love, mediaeval french, scribe doll, tristan
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Pet Hates: Ethnic Monitoring Forms
Join a library, apply for a job or submit a play for a competition. More often than not, you will have to fill one in. Apparently, their purpose is to guarantee an equal distribution of opportunities among ethnic backgrounds. Does … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4
My Sound Sculpture feature on crows on the BBC Radio 4 programme Saturday Live, broadcast on 14 January 2012.
Odds & Ends: The Silence Experiment
I am recovering from a drawn out case of laryngitis. During this time, there was one particular day when I could not speak. My throat hurt too much. Because I am currently between jobs, I was able to indulge the … Continue reading
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Tagged empowerment, health, katherine gregor, scribe doll, silence, talk, thoughts, wisdom, wit
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Odds & Ends: Rain
I love the rain. We had a few thunderstorms, last week. One afternoon, just as I lighting sparked into my room and I heard the thunder drumroll, I grabbed my mac, and rushed out into the street, towards the Thames. … Continue reading
Odds & Ends: Illness as a Friend
I am unwell, and beginning to enjoy it. For one thing, it is giving me time to think. No, I am not mad. It is like observing a student being taught a difficult but valuable lesson. The student throws a … Continue reading
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Tagged dis-ease, health, herbs, illness, instinct, katherine gregor, scribe doll
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Words and Civilisation: “I don’t want to get involved”
A friend and I were walking down the street and saw a woman sitting on a doorstep, crying her eyes out. “Don’t get involved,” said my friend, picking up the pace. A few steps further, I let my friend go … Continue reading
Posted in Words and Civilisation
Tagged involved, katherine gregor, life, right, scribe doll, society, values, words, wrong
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The Temple Church
As a rule, I feel uncomfortable at church services. It is not that I have an issue with God, or with churches per se. I believe in God, and like most churches built at least 500 years ago. It is … Continue reading
Yekaterina Gregoryán – My Grandmother
My grandmother had nerves of steel. My mother and I used to joke that if anyone were ever to tell her there was an imminent nuclear attack, she would purse her lips in that way she did when considering various … Continue reading
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Tagged armenian, grandmother, history, katherine gregor, life, scribedoll, soviet union
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Scribe Doll 