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First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs.

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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.

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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Mathieu

November 24, 2008 at 11:16 pm · Reply

Sorry to hear you had to go thru all that. :-(
Reverend Tex B. Acon

March 31, 2009 at 4:53 am · Reply

I really liked your blog! Praise Bacon and Hallelujah :)

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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Stunner

September 29, 2007 at 7:59 pm · Reply

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

October 1, 2007 at 2:07 pm · Reply

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.
Caribbean Colors

October 1, 2007 at 2:09 pm · Reply

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.
Zinnia Cyclamen

October 6, 2007 at 7:36 am · Reply

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.

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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revolution island

December 15, 2006 at 8:53 pm · Reply

Ria

Hope your shopping goes well. Have a great Christmas.
Zinnia Cyclamen

December 17, 2006 at 3:01 am · Reply

I did mine online too. In fact I do loads of shopping online, right down to ordering groceries. Although I’m in the UK, I live in a small town with very limited shopping facilities, so I find it very useful, not to mention quick and easy. The only downside is the huge number of cardboard boxes I have to take to the tip every few weeks.
Cranky Putz

December 18, 2006 at 3:28 pm · Reply

lol, who the HELL would look so happy to spend 29% in Interest…at these rates you can’t afford to wait MY BEHIND.

And the chain mail…woweeee…..
William quartz

August 1, 2007 at 11:46 pm · Reply

Oh’girl! Talking about jamaica is similar as talking about searching water in a desert (for me).I cannot resist live in such places.

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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revolution island

October 5, 2006 at 8:40 am · Reply

Ria, the best ones are those banners pasted to the tops of windshields, I’ll try to shoot some and post on my site. e.g. “God Son”
Mad Bull

October 5, 2006 at 12:14 pm · Reply

Hmmm…
plk

October 6, 2006 at 8:55 am · Reply

This reminds of a not so beautiful very plastic Christmas tree, made in Hong Kong, we bought during our South African days. It said on the box: If the tree wrinkles you iron them.
I also know a blog where under the heading Categories The Netherlands is spelled as The nether lands.
Shame on you!
Ria

October 6, 2006 at 11:46 am · Reply

It’s supposed to be the way it is, plk.

Lekker puh! :-P
plk

October 8, 2006 at 4:42 am · Reply

Smoesjes I think.
If on purpose, it is antipodal to upper and that is for this country impossible.
Ria

October 8, 2006 at 4:30 pm · Reply

Large parts of the country are below sea level.

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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Mad Bull

May 9, 2006 at 11:26 pm · Reply

Six blades?! Wow… I have got to get one!
Ria

May 9, 2006 at 11:49 pm · Reply

The refill packs for the Mach 3 can cost around US$36 (example); by the time they reach 14 blades the refills might cost as much as US$168!

Growing your beard again might be a cheaper option, MB.
Loxias

May 10, 2006 at 4:08 am · Reply

Hoho, great one.

And as ever, numbers and graphs explain everything — as if!

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