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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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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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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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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  • 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?

  • 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

    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

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

    ZS

  • 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!

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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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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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  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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