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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Currently translating a manual on how to make a handpump. Background research takes ages but gives great feeling of learning something new.
1 week ago
@RiaBacon helloooo! i've been suffering from exactly the same problem.
2 weeks ago
@lucypepper Good to hear from you. Real life is getting in the way of my virtual self. Maybe I should outsource the overworked part.
2 weeks ago
Fat tax now! RT @AP In 20 years, some 42 percent of the U.S. population will be obese, new government report says: http://t.co/ImZK2ETt -EF
2 weeks ago
@RiaBacon i read that as: Fresh post... random outbreak. Need more sleep.
2 weeks ago

Stet in a cloud

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Now hear dis!

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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For now we see through a glass, darkly

First day back in the office, keyboard failure and 17 °C, so I spent the first hour in my coat fiddling with the cables running under my desk. Maintenance has been busy over Xmas and I now have a shatter-proof screen on my window. You might imagine that they would have cleaned the window before applying the film, but no, they stuck it straight on top of years and years of grime. This means of course that the window can never be cleaned! Can you believe it? Not that it has been cleaned for a very long time. The reason is that two years ago, a group of secretaries pestered the maintenance service until they sent someone to clean their windows. He fell off the ledge and died. Since then no one dares make another request.

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