Author Archives: Scribe Doll
Odds & Ends: A Mother-in-Law to Smash all Stereotypes
When I was getting a divorce, twelve years ago, my mother-in-law said, “I want you and I to remain friends.” I muttered some polite platitude in return. Friends with the mother of the man with whom I was engaged in … Continue reading
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Tagged family, katherine gregor, life, mother-in-law, musings, relationships, scribe doll, women, writing
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Theatre Review: While the Sun Shines
It is a crying shame that this production is on for only a week, or I would go and see it again. Terence Rattigan’s 1943 comedy is a farce involving the usual premise of mistaken identity and romantic complications, but … Continue reading
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Tagged giant olive, katherine gregor, lion and unicorn theatre, scribe doll, terence rattigan, while the sun shines
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Odds & Ends: My Adventures in Twitter
Beginnings: I signed up to Twitter a few days before Christmas. It seemed like a low-maintenance way of promoting my writing electronically. As usual, I needed someone to show me. Not that the instructions were complicated – on the contrary. I … Continue reading
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Tagged katherine gregor, musings, scribe doll, tweeting, twitter, writing
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Odds & Ends: Showbiz Party*
The Scene: a bar Props: nibbles and alcoholic drinks (white wine with a soupçon of ammonia, red wine with a bouquet of vinaigre, or champagne à la bicarbonate) . Sound Effects: Near hysterical laughter and raised, sometimes high-pitched voices with … Continue reading
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Tagged actors, katherine gregor, life, networking, party, scribe doll, showbiz, theatre, writing
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Odds & Ends: Diamond Jubilee
All right, so I’m a spoilsport. I had planned to spend today hiding in my flat, and catching the River Pageant on the television news. I just have never been a fan of crowded, public celebrations of anything. I still … Continue reading
What Made Me Start Writing
“I think you’ll be a writer and a teacher, when you grow up,” said my grandmother, when I was about eleven. To this day, I do not know what made her see that in me. Still, when I got divorced, … Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, katherine gregor.scribe doll, Nice Conservatoire, writing
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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.
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