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.
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

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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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Saved by sewage

Yesterday I passed the Shell petrol station at Manor Park a few hours after it had been damaged by fire. There was a burnt out truck by the pumps and the area was cordoned off with a yellow tape, marked

Police crime scene Do not cross Police crime scene Do not cross

I imagined some

Continue reading Saved by sewage

March 5th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: Fnuky Kingston, News in brief | 4 comments

Bank on an M-16

Teller: I’m sorry, Sir, but this line is for Gold Card holders only. Policeman: And M-16 holders? Teller: … That’ll do nicely, Sir.

March 5th, 2007 | Tags: , , | Category: Fnuky Kingston, Photos | 3 comments

Sandblaster Beauty Salon

“OK, Mrs Musgrave. I think we’ve done as much as we can down here. Perhaps you’d like to step upstairs for our new innovation in skin rejuvenation …”

March 4th, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Category: Fnuky Kingston, Photos | Leave a comment
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