Category Archives: Pet Hates
“I feel guilty, it’s all my fault, I’m a bad person” – a Cop-Out?*
I’ve been thinking about the guilt emotion. Wondering if guilt can sometimes provide a secure – albeit uncomfortable – hiding place. Guilt gnaws at our insides. It pinches so hard at the bottom of our lungs, that we cannot take a … Continue reading
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
Pet Hates: Mean-Spirited Favours
There are favours for which you are sincerely grateful. Favours which come as rain upon the desert, or a hot salt bath when all your muscles are aching. Then there are favours which are a pain in the far South … Continue reading
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Tagged favours, generosity, katherine gregor, life, musings, scribedoll, thoughts
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Pet Hates: By E-Mail
Number One: The CC option. At the risk of upsetting many of my friends and acquaintances, I simply have to voice this. Why do so many people find it so difficult to grasp the concept of the BCC option? … Continue reading
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Tagged e-mails, katherine gregor, life, musings, scribedoll, thoughts, writing
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Pet Hates: (Some) Christmas Cards
No, I am not one of those people who get grumpy, depressed or reclusive at this time of year. I love, and always have loved, Yuletide. No, I do not like to see tinsel and baubles adorning the shops in … Continue reading
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Tagged bing crosby, christmas cards, energy saving, katherine gregor, king's college choir, personalised, saving trees, scribedoll, yuletide
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Pet Hates: The Devil’s Demand (or Direct Debit)
When I took out a contract with my existing mobile ‘phone company, I was told that I could have the package I wanted only on condition that I paid for it by direct debit. No, a standing order was not … Continue reading
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Tagged agreements, bills, contracts, direct debit, katherine gregor, musings, scribe doll, scribedoll, standingorder
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Pet Hates: The Menace of Contagion
I am meeting two female friends for an after work drink at the Windsor Castle Pub. I give one the socially compulsory kiss on the cheek. I turn to the other but she takes a step back. “I have a … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, colds, contagion, doctors, flu, katherine gregor, scribe doll, scribedoll
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Pet Hates: Sticking Things Out
When you’re struggling with a situation, do your friends tell you to “stick it out”? Stick it out. You’ll be glad you did. How do they know that? Do they have 20/20 vision into the future? Stick … Continue reading
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Tagged Arlecchino, choice, Figaro, katherine gregor, scribe doll, scribedoll, sticking
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Pet Hates: Job Interview Platitudes
Sorry to keep you waiting, we’re very busy today. Tempting answer: Are you suggesting I am not busy? I can honestly say that I have seldom been seen at the agreed time. It is the would be employer who … Continue reading
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Tagged employers, job interviews, katherine gregor, musings, platitudes, scribe doll, scribedoll
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Pet Hates: In Restaurants
No.1 Is everything O.K.? Have you noticed how waiters wait for the exact moment when you have your mouth full, before they ask you that? I often try and cheat them by staging my forkfuls when they are not around … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, food, katherinegregor, napkin, restaurants, scribe doll, scribedoll, waiters
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