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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Heath Robinson was a communist

Out for a stroll in San Saba yesterday morning, I found this cunning contraption rigged up at the local section of the Communist Party. No automatic irrigation system with electronic water timers, micro jets and mini sprinklers … just an old plastic bottle and some wire.
Cunning communists
Italy in crisis

The comrades are obviously absent, attending the annual 30-day Balnearic Exposition on Anti-Capitalist Hegemony (B.E.A.C.H), courageously dealing with Collective Analyses of Radical Dialectics (C.A.R.D.S).

Economic crisis? I’ll raise you ten.

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