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First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs.

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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.

Portia

BREAKING NEWS … first online report …

And so tonight, Jamaica has its first, Prime Minister.

TVJ Prime Time News, 20:00

In all the excitement, the TVJ reporter forgot to clarify that the winner of today’s People’s National Party leadership race was to become Jamaica’s first female Prime Minister!

She was always the people’s favourite©, but because the voting was

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Zinnia Cyclamen

February 26, 2006 at 9:26 am · Reply

Many women politicians seem to be more politician than woman… Margaret Thatcher, Condoleeza Rice… I hope she’s one of the other kind.
Stet » Blog Archive » With God on our side

April 10, 2006 at 7:58 am · Reply

[...] As I mentioned on the night of triumph of the new leader of Jamaica, it is the only country where you will here a politician say, God bless you, comrades! [...]

Quiet night of quiet stars

Dusk.

The tilers have flung their final obscenity down at the labourers below, carried the tools back to their boss and climbed into the back of the dusty pickup. The labourers in turn insult each other’s manhood, dust themselves off and head down the hill to the less leafy suburbs of Kingston. Some have cannibalized mountain bikes;

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Mad Bull

February 24, 2006 at 3:32 am · Reply

You gwaan! You nearly mash up my PC’s sperakers… I was about to send you a bill ;-)
‘Twas Funny… you actually frightened me.
Ria

February 24, 2006 at 3:56 am · Reply

He-he-he!
grannyp

February 24, 2006 at 3:22 pm · Reply

Can’t even get picture….AND I’m on Firefox,,
grannyp

February 24, 2006 at 3:25 pm · Reply

No – got it at last – but only pictures. Nice though.
Ria

February 24, 2006 at 3:27 pm · Reply

Go put the kettle on. The page should have fully loaded by the time it boils!

You do have the Quicktime plugin installed, right?
Waterhot

February 28, 2006 at 2:54 pm · Reply

Fantastic sound effects, fantastic ! Start the frog sounds, then hover over the picture, then slide away. Then repeat. Again and again. Brilliant.
Mathieu

February 28, 2006 at 8:17 pm · Reply

Kewl!

Keep pushing the enveloppe!
Mad Bull

March 1, 2006 at 12:37 pm · Reply

You must show me how you did this… it is major cool… by the way, how do you rate yourself with web technologies in general and with wordpress themes in particular…
Ria

March 1, 2006 at 2:04 pm · Reply

MB, I ended up doing the photo rollover as a Flash movie in Swish, which is a simplified version of Flash. I had first tried with Dreamweaver – the simple photo switch is done in three clicks – but I couldn’t get the audio file to go on and off with the mouseover/off. Very annoying with my distorted Elephant Man loop!

The original photos were edited in Photoshop and the audio loops in Acid.

All my ‘puter knowledge just comes from playing around with stuff, trying to understand how they work; that includes my first fiddles with WordPress.

Gimme a stable Internet connection and no interruptions (Mama, I’m thirsty/hungry/bored/want to go swimming etc.) and I would go a lot further!
bounce house

April 16, 2007 at 11:04 pm · Reply

I surfed only, and have found your blog. This is a good place.–bounce house

Let’s drink a drink a drink

Pharmacies in Jamaica are wonderful places, Aladdin’s caves of apothecarial delights, cornucopias of … well, you get the drift. I love browsing through their vast and varied stock. Besides medicines, their choice of sale is surprisingly unpredictable and might include stationery, toys, clothes, CDs, newspapers, cigarettes and vases. Very useful places indeed.

All pharmacies will have a

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Urban Gypsy

February 20, 2006 at 5:18 am · Reply

Lily the Pink… bloody hell, we’re going back some now, aren’t we. Who on earth was Peter Whelan… some old headmaster with a bad dose of the piles? In truth, there’s a couple of verses there that I wasn’t familiar with… but then, I was only a titch when that was released.

“…to help you feel better during menstruation and menopause”

It’s Gin, isn’t it?
Mad Bull

February 22, 2006 at 2:13 am · Reply

I have never heard of it. Which pharmacy is your favourite… mine was Discount Pharmacy by Manor Park… Next was Manor Park Pharmacy itself, but it was a distant second.
Ria

February 22, 2006 at 2:23 am · Reply

MB – The new one at Loshusan has very soothing lighting and no customers. They also have (sell?) very realistic life size porcelain dogs.

UG – heheh-hic. It’s only 10% proof. Used to be 20% apparently. Helps disguise the taste of the Jamaican Dogwood bark (woof!) and Pleurisy root.
ivo

February 22, 2006 at 2:58 pm · Reply

Great. Nobody knows Lydia Pinkham here in Italy: can i be your franchisee? :-)

ZS
Mad Bull

February 23, 2006 at 12:44 am · Reply

Ria, well, if they have no customers they probably won’t be your favourite for long. Now in that plaza my favourite establishments are the Haagen Dazs ice cream store and the Acropolis Gaming Lounge!

Vote rustling

Nominated for
Best Expat Weblog
and
Most Underappreciated Weblog

It was the blip in the stats that tipped me off. A sudden jump in the late afternoon, Caribbean time. Among the usual google image referrals for girl-on-girl housework and tits ‘n’ bums, kids ‘n’ mums, I spotted the fresh spoor from Ljubljana, Slovenia, referred by A Fistful of Euros. Hmmm.

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Mathieu

February 15, 2006 at 5:26 pm · Reply

Done, and i think you blow Petite out of the water, personaly.
Flav

February 15, 2006 at 10:44 pm · Reply

good luck! buena suerte! bon heure! i voted for ya…
Tim

February 16, 2006 at 7:37 pm · Reply

I’m all for rank outsiders with lizards.
Actually, no. Scrap the bit about lizards.
Mad Bull

February 17, 2006 at 12:44 am · Reply

Congrats! Unfortunately I can’t vote for you because I appreciate you… oh ok, I’m going…
Zinnia Cyclamen

February 17, 2006 at 4:54 pm · Reply

I was pleased to see you listed. Best of luck!
Stet » Blog Archive » Cable & Wireless Jamaica

April 29, 2007 at 11:04 pm · Reply

[...] It’s back up now, so I guess I should just be grateful, right? No way! By the power of Google ranking and Technorati tags I shall have my revenge! Muahahahaha! Oh yeah, and don’t think this is the first time. [...]

Nol in ‘t Bosch

One of many photos from BJ, before Jamaica. The stabs of lights on the ground make me think of the Mysterons from the TV show Captain Scarlet. Yes, it was one of the cornier series of the times, with the flying Angels and Scarlet talking like Cary Grant, but still, the spooky voice announcing We. Are.

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Waterhot

February 13, 2006 at 9:43 pm · Reply

Captain Scarlet was always my favourite as a kid (though I called him Skaptin Dalek when I was very small). There was something about his cold eyes and his indestructibility – here was a hero who showed the burden of the heroism he bore. A couple of years ago I bought the complete boxed set of every episode. There were things that had remained with me – the obvious things, I suppose, like the theme song and the unforgettable “This. Is the voice. Of the Mysterons…” – but I was surprised to find that I had completely forgotten how Captain Scarlet had acquired his indestructibility. And how sparse the world in which he lived was. And just how scary the series really was.

Beautiful picture, by the way.
guyana-gyal

February 15, 2006 at 1:37 am · Reply

Beautiful. If you go up to Newcastle, where the soldiers’ place is, really early in the morning, you can have something similar. Not exactly, but similar.

psst…I voted for you on the European blog thing…see Zoe’s blog for the site.
Flav

February 15, 2006 at 10:30 am · Reply

hmm I don’t know about Captain Scarlet, but that sure is a great photo. Love it!
Ria

February 15, 2006 at 4:50 pm · Reply

GG, the question is, why were you hanging round a soldiers’ base in the early morning?

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