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.
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@RiaBacon helloooo! i've been suffering from exactly the same problem.
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@lucypepper Good to hear from you. Real life is getting in the way of my virtual self. Maybe I should outsource the overworked part.
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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
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@RiaBacon i read that as: Fresh post... random outbreak. Need more sleep.
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Barf out!

If you’re in Birmingham, UK, this Sunday, why not try … competitive eating?

Gag me with a spoon!

Check out the “Bib sheet” of champion speed eater Sonya Thomas.

“I can eat anything I want and never seem to gain a pound!” she giggles.

Word of the day: bulimia

!@#$%^&*()_+

I had an orgiastic 36 hours in Paris last weekend and spent much of the time enjoying sloooww eating, at Le Connetable, Montparnasse 1900 and the Taghit, in my old stomping ground.

More frenzied was our stop at FNAC, grabbing hard-to-P2P CDs with both hands
Kirikou et la sorcière

Great African children's story
Dimanche à Bamako
Amadou & Mariam
Maiorais
Bonga Angola
Cru
Seu Jorge
Calypso @ Dirty Jim’s
Calypso gets the Buena Vista treatment

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April 30th, 2005 | Tags: , , | Category: Leaving this place
  • http://unkemptwomen.blogspot.com vit

    those repulsive people look so proud of themselves. what an acheivement… gorging. yuk yuk yuk.

  • http://realefun.blogspot.com Zinnia Cyclamen

    ugh, yuk, gross. I didn’t know about speed eating. I know lots about slow eating, though – my favourite!

  • http://www.allusiveillustrious.blogspot.com a

    you can watch sonya break the world record for popcorn eating last week at http://www.mtveatmovies.com