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.

Tweet Blender

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

Ria fotografia

Photo Galleries

Gallery One

Ria Galleria

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.

Stet is a proud member of


    expatriate

Contact

Ria[dot]Bacon[at]gmail.com

Another don bites the dust

Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail, In Spanish Town

Another shooting, another riot, another curfew in Spanish Town, Jamaica’s former capital city, situated some ten miles west of Kingston. The town exploded in violence again yesterday following the assassination of Andrew “Bun Man” Hope, leader of the One Order gang. The leader

Continue reading Another don bites the dust

February 9th, 2006 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Fnuky Kingston, Politricks | 3 comments

King Merc meets higglers uptown

Shopping from the comfort of your car in uptown Kingston.

Although the resolution is too low to read here, I’ve changed the licence plate to [BUSHA 2].

For an explanation of the title Busha, read the following extract from Anthony C. Winkler’s hilarious novel, The Lunatic.

The Busha was the richest man in the

Continue reading King Merc meets higglers uptown

February 8th, 2006 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Fnuky Kingston, Photos | 4 comments

‘Obeah dust’ causes chaos at police station

A woman constable attached to the Half-Way-Tree Police Station had to seek medical attention last week after she came in contact with a strange powdery substance sprinkled on the court compound. [...] Security personnel at the courthouse told Xtra News that on a daily basis they remove strange items from persons seeking to enter the

Continue reading ‘Obeah dust’ causes chaos at police station

February 6th, 2006 | Tags: , , , | Category: News in brief | 3 comments
« Newer Entries