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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Via Crucis

Talking of creepy images (see yesterday), here’s a few from the “Way of the Cross” ceremony at the Colosseum last Friday night.

Glow in the dark priests
I had to attach my special “Righteous light” filter to get this effect.Glow in the dark priests

Creepy people

A group of tiny Paraguayan hitmen from Opus Dei performing an initiation rite.Creepy people
The main event inside the Colosseum
Broadcast on giant video screens to us plebs outside the Colosseum.
Stations of the cross
The burning cross
Not at all disturbing? Maybe it’s just my own hangup with flaming torch parades (Nuremburg!) , hooded cloaks and burning crosses (KKK!).
Burning cross
The Pope watching TV
Only backshots, to hide the breathing tube inserted in his recent tracheotomy operation.
Pope watching TV
He looked very lonely.

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  • http://loxias1.blogspot.com Loxias

    ‘Lonely’? Maybe ‘terminally ill’, too.

  • http://madbecka.blogspot.com rainex

    The burning cross effect-
    instant drop in IQ….oh
    there goes mine else I would
    have finished with something
    brighter!

  • http://syvwlch.blogspot.com/ Mathieu

    Very lonely indeed.

    Oh, and that paraguayan hitman is our cousin “Jaime”.

    ;)

  • http://syvwlch.blogspot.com/ Mathieu

    Yes, it is, and it was bloody expensive to send too!

    :D

  • http://riabacon.blogspot.com Ria

    You were the Paraguay link, Mathieu. Is the postcard on its way?