Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

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@GeorgeMonbiot Ice on your windscreen in February is not the strongest argument for global warming.
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RT @paulkingsnorth: In an actually sane nation, an endorsement from Donald Trump would surely kill any political career stone dead.
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RT @guardian: Friday's @guardian front page – 1.2 million: the hidden toll of malaria deaths http://t.co/jTMjXlVH #stopmalarianow
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@rachiesparrow Brrr. Cold :-)
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The happy secret to better work and study: New #TED talk: http://t.co/EkJoKvv1
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FYI

Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.

...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

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Tools of the trade

My tools of the trade

When I started at the UN, I was taken to the stock room and given one red pen, two pencils, a pad of post-its, a roll of sellotape and a stapler. I didn’t have a desk or a computer, and the seat of the spare chair in my shared office tipped over if you leaned too far forward. On the second day I got a desk. After three days I was given a PC on loan. The mouse had no trackball and looked like a gouged eye socket. I still managed to use it by wiggling my finger around its insides…

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