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

Ria fotografia

Photo Galleries

Gallery One

Ria Galleria

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.

Stet is a proud member of


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Contact

Ria[dot]Bacon[at]gmail.com

Vote rustling

Nominated for Best Expat Weblog and Most Underappreciated Weblog

It was the blip in the stats that tipped me off. A sudden jump in the late afternoon, Caribbean time. Among the usual google image referrals for girl-on-girl housework and tits ‘n’ bums, kids ‘n’ mums, I spotted the fresh spoor from Ljubljana, Slovenia, referred by

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February 15th, 2006 | Tags: , | Category: Metablogging | 6 comments

CSS my house

I’ve got paint roller blisters after another marathon session repainting the stairwell. Ours is a new house and we are the first occupants. The builders painted all the inside walls matt white. Then some dufus came along and did some touch ups using gloss white, which shone its smeary brilliance from ceiling to floor.

After

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January 17th, 2006 | Tags: , , , | Category: Metablogging, Photos | One comment

Don’t look yet

This is the first design foolings for my blog, currently running on blogspot.

Come back in a few weeks … if Jamaican telecom has connected me by then.

Soon come mi sistah!

November 8th, 2005 | Tags: | Category: Metablogging | Leave a comment

La bella figura

Her throng of devotees will recognize that this one could only be for Vit.

(I think she already sneaked in to this blog earlier in the third photie)What do you think, Vit? Can Portugal beat the full makeup, jewellery and hairdo of Italy’s finest in the water?

BTW, this lake provides the drinking water for

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July 21st, 2005 | Tags: , , | Category: Photos | 7 comments

Back in black

I been too longI’m glad to be back

The hiatus was due to a sudden and heavy load of work right at the end of my contract. Even though my contract is not being renewed, as a good girl guide, I felt duty-bound to go the extra mile and give it all I got

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July 14th, 2005 | Tags: , , , | Category: Photos, Riddim | 2 comments
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