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Christmas is going to the dogs

A nice little article popped into my in box this morning courtesy of Entertainment4media news wire and it made me smile, so I thought I'd pass it on. It's not related to writing, or my marine mysteries or crime novels, but it's highly topical because it's about the office Christmas party, which is obviously why it was sent out now. This little snippet of news might very well have been covered on the radio or TV by now, but here is the link to 'New Survey says we all hate the Work Christmas Party' and below just a little taster. "Lovers of the annual office knees up were in the minority as almost a third of those polled declared they actively hate it and over 40% said they just plain don’t care. The biggest turn off is having to socialise with people with whom we have nothing in common (43%), so probably no surprise that over a third (36%) said they find the whole experience a bore and feared getting stuck with the office nerd (33%). The social pressure t...