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

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At the lake

“Is it summer today?”“Can we go swimming today?”“I want to go to the beach!”

Until last weekend, our kids had had to make do with hosing each other down on the balcony when they got too hot. But there was no denying it last week that summer was finally here.

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U Ria

Today’s post is

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Soft bottom trawling

Editing technical documents occasionally (very occasionally) produces some chuckles, especially if you have a sense of humour in arrested development:

Instrumentation for bottom characterizationGrabs and cores provide quantitative samples, but are not suitable for patchy distributed fauna of low abundance. Cameras are the only sampling method used on rough bottoms.

Section 3 promises an exposure of
Otter trawling

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  • Fnar fnar fnar! I used to do medical editing and that, ahem, threw up some good funnies. ‘Anti-natal classes’ was one of my favourites, as was ‘the left hemisphere of the brian’ – for some reason that particular transposition made me laugh every time.

  • My god – it sounds like those random collections of words that people use to fill text space before the copy’s written. And that’s a mental image of otters I didn’t want.

  • Stopping by to say hello, it has been much too long. Shame on me.

    Very amusing post I actually thought while reading it that you will get very interesting Google searches on this post. It is nice to know that great minds and all that…

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Volpetti’s

When you first enter the shop, the smell of cheese and ham is overpowering.

Volpetti’s: probably the best deli in Rome; definitely one of the main reasons we’re still here, particularly since it’s only a ten-minute walk from our house. We eat at their self-service restaurant, Volpetti più, at least once a week. So after almost

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Coblogsitting

I’m co-blogsitting for Tim while he’s on holiday, so today’s post is here.

Coblogsitting – I’m going to add that

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