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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.

Wrangling with fireworks

We ventured into the village yesterday to get the traditional New Year’s delicacies, olieballen and glühwein, essential ingredients for a gezellig evening by the log fire. On every street corner stood gangs of slouching and sullen yoof, sniggering and swigging beers, SMSing with a mobile in each hand, while at the same time lighting bangers from

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January 7, 2008 at 6:25 am · Reply

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PLK

January 10, 2008 at 9:23 am · Reply

I loved your formula, looks a bit like the work of the mad professor. This was the nickname of a member of your household when said member was a preteen.
What I really blame to the glühwein is olieballen. This loosely translated means oily bollocks.

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 of rival gang,

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charles

February 10, 2006 at 2:04 am · Reply

The shooting took placed a few hundred yards from my workplace and I was trapped in my office for about 1/2 hour during the upheaval on Wednesday, as several roads were blocked.
Mad Bull

February 10, 2006 at 3:56 am · Reply

A Spanish Town you work, Mista Charles? I got the impression it was Kingston, but I guess that might be the arrogance of a Kingstonian, thinking that there is nowhere but Kingston, if you know what I mean.
babsie

June 11, 2007 at 11:35 am · Reply

thanks

Late night reading

Late at night, when everybody else is asleep, I reach under the bed and get out my favourite porn reading: The Rough Guide to Jamaica. Check out this extract:
A mile or so past Chukka Cove, a tiny paved road cuts inland towards Cranbrook Flower Forest, an exquisitely landscaped, 130-acre nature park with several grassy lawns, a

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Luuk

September 17, 2005 at 3:59 pm · Reply

I would stick to the Rough Guide’s Jamaica if I were you…
Zinnia Cyclamen

September 19, 2005 at 8:46 pm · Reply

Gulp indeed. Maybe there is something to be said for middle England after all. (OK, not a lot, I grant you that!)
Half Swede

September 20, 2005 at 12:51 am · Reply

As depressing and real as the cons are, I say the pros (and the yes! yes! yes!) are worth it. Plus, you have the Bubbling Championships to win!
Southern Bird

September 21, 2005 at 8:12 am · Reply

Hey!
Sorry but was in stiches with the oooh and ahhh commentary!
Did the earth move for you?

The customer (with a shotgun) is king

Antoinette is smoking again.

She works in the next office but the walls here are so porous that the smoke just leaks through. Our building was once Mussolini’s Ministry of African Affairs, a rather grandiose affair since his attempt to emulate other European colonial powers was limited to Abyssinia and Libya. The large offices of the colonial

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Mathieu

February 16, 2005 at 11:09 am · Reply

Gagg…

I don’t know which is worse. Probably the air freshener.

Had a rose-flavoured mousse dessert once, in Britanny. I like rose petal jam, so thought i’d enjoy this one.

Turned out to taste like concentrated rose air freshener. I had to spit it back out. My date was not amused ;)
Michele

September 3, 2010 at 12:14 pm · Reply

My grandmother used an etire can of rose-scented air freshner each week. Every tinme my grandfather had a cigarette she would be poised with her finger on the spray button ready to leave a trail of obnoxious scent behind.

Despite the fact that I hate the fake-rose scent when I moved into my very first apartment I purchased a tin of rose scented air freshener KNOWING that it was the proper after smoke ritual.

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