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.
2 weeks 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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Contact

Ria[dot]Bacon[at]gmail.com

Yackety yak

Honey, can youse take out the trash?

Yackety yak

I even sorted my crap: plastic with plastic, paper with paper, oozing sticky fluids with noxious defrosting fish.

Three carloads up and down the drive and it was done.

A little bit of Al Green, then I’m done too.

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  • http://theurbangypsy.blogspot.com urban gypsy

    Whoa… from Rome to the Netherlands and then Jamaica! How great would that be?! BTW, your son has great taste in home decor and I’ll take the inflatables from your yard sale.

  • http://riabacon.blogspot.com Ria

    Thanks, Alex.

    2.5 months in the Netherlands, then off to funky Kingston.

    Our son (aged 4.5) has designed our house according to our instructions – double hammock, wide patio with fridge and WiFi.

    Ahhh …

  • http://blogfromitaly.blogspot.com/ Alex

    Bye Ria. Don’t let the moving get you down too much – which is not easy, I know.
    Are you heading for Paris? And will you be blogging from there?

    Take care and take it easy (after the move!)