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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RT @GeorgeMonbiot: Magnificent and beautiful: letter from a former slave to his master: http://t.co/vISUW4PM via @tweeter_anita
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Best parody of LMFAO: I'm Elmo and I know it! http://t.co/mcoQk8eS
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Unfortunate choice of words? RT @AP: World's largest cruise line: Reservations dip in weeks following Italian cruise ship accident.
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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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Bonga

This is one of the most beautiful songs I know.

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Tech note If, like me, you suffer from a poor Internet connection then initial playback may be a frustrating experience. In this case, press STOP, read the post (giving the track time to load), then try PLAY again.

My personal

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Googly nubs

Just a quickie … too much work, too many deadlines. So it’s over to you, dear visitor.

Item 1 Imported corn from the USA

Item 2 Local corn from Jamaica

Discuss.

Rainy Day

The wind picked up yesterday, gusting so hard that I took down the shade sails in the back garden for fear that they blow away or snap their wooden fixture posts. It was obvious that this was not an innocent wind, but that it was carrying some force far more malevolent than itself.

Sure enough,

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Video: Barbican Road

Tech note

Reload page if video thumbnail does not appear. From experimenting with various online video hosts, YouTube seems to be the most efficient. Blip.tv gave me some problems uploading and with playback, and as for Google video, I’m still waiting for their broadcast approval, three days after uploading the clip.

My heart sank when

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Amor vincit omnia fe true

We have 125 channels on TV.

I watch very little and very irregularly: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and, the main advantage of so many channels, reruns of great US comedies such as Seinfeld, Frasier and vintage Cheers. Yet it’s one of the mysteries of the universe that I seem condemned to see the

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