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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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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What does not kill me, makes me stronger

After spending a few days in the north of Senegal, I returned to Dakar to find one of my sites had been hacked. Each page of my photoblog, Ria Galleria, had a long list of ads and links above my own photo posts. The ads were all related to travel, which is preferable to zoophilia, although

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Postlapsarian PNP: After the fall from grace

The recent general election in Jamaica was a close run between the People’s National Party, in power for 18 years, and the Jamaica Labour Party. While at least one of the sixty seats remains to be decided by the courts, the JLP still managed to squeeze past the incumbents with a four-seat majority.

Politically motivated violence had

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  • Those anagrams are rather interesting. I a m so happy that the damn election season is almost over! Just need to get rid of the post election squabbles, like the recounts and the supporters clash at the opening of parliament.

  • Caribbean Colors

    Are you hopeful for the political future of Haiti? I found your anagrams very clever. We’re less than 6 months from our general here in Belize and things are starting to heat up. They call the big political rallies “Love Fests”. SO much money is thrown around and spent lasciviously that you tend to forget we’re a 3rd world country.

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    Derrr… I mean are you hopeful for the political future of Jamaica? I must have had my head stuck on the photos below thinking they looked like Haiti in some instances.

  • Oh look, you’re back! Hello, I missed you. Zinnia Cyclamen: Zinnia Man Cycle (oh yeah baby), Mean Zany Clinic (a medical vocation missed), A Nicely Zinc Man (well how do you know I’m a woman anyway?), but I think my favourite is Cynic Inn Ma Zeal. Then again, there’s always Nil In Zany Mecca, but I might be up for a fatwa for that one.

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Gone crazy gone mad

Following the previous post about poor service, I felt I should balance it with a post about how difficult it is to run a small business in Jamaica, particularly when it comes to getting a loan. Shortly after we arrived in Jamaica last year, we considered taking out a loan to buy a car. Our bank

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Chinglish crassics

As an editor, it was all I could do to stop myself from leaping out and attacking this car in front of me with my red pen.

To calm myself down, I thought I’d do some breathing exercises when I got home. But I hadn’t counted on the instruction leaflet that came with the yoga mat:

Train the

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How low can you go?

Last Saturday, the fastest sprinter in the world, Jamaican Asafa Powell, beat all-comers at the Jamaica International Invitational meeting in Kingston. Even so, he had wanted to go even faster and blamed the starter for making them wait too long, claiming that “It was the worst start I have ever got in my life so far.”

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