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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Future anterior

Here’s another neologism for you — premem — similar to my previous new word, and also triggered by one of my children. It means “pre-memory”, and while sounding like something out of a Philip K. Dick story, my meaning refers to a more intimate epiphany, one of those “golden moments” when you can already visualize, at

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Hold the front page

Another place, another great headline. Whereas my previous favourite headline from Jamaica was a classic in understatement, the front page headline in our local paper in The Netherlands this week was a gem of a different sort:

Man falls off bike
A 57-year-old man from E— was injured on Tuesday morning when he fell off his bike in

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Grimm times

The last few days have given us some beautiful misty mornings. I took this detour home after dropping the kids off at school this morning. Carved in the bark of the last tree were the words, “Dopey 4 Snow White”.

Hmmm … I wonder what will happen if I eat these

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Getting away from it all?

We left Jamaica almost a month ago, leaving behind water and power shortages and the threat of hurricanes. We’re ending our break in Europe with other, unexpected hazards.

Groningen rocked by ‘record’ earthquake

8 August 2006

AMSTERDAM — An earthquake shook the north of the Netherlands early on Tuesday morning. Measuring 3.5 on the Richter Scale, it was equal

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Nol in ‘t Bosch

One of many photos from BJ, before Jamaica. The stabs of lights on the ground make me think of the Mysterons from the TV show Captain Scarlet. Yes, it was one of the cornier series of the times, with the flying Angels and Scarlet talking like Cary Grant, but still, the spooky voice announcing We. Are.

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  • Captain Scarlet was always my favourite as a kid (though I called him Skaptin Dalek when I was very small). There was something about his cold eyes and his indestructibility – here was a hero who showed the burden of the heroism he bore. A couple of years ago I bought the complete boxed set of every episode. There were things that had remained with me – the obvious things, I suppose, like the theme song and the unforgettable “This. Is the voice. Of the Mysterons…” – but I was surprised to find that I had completely forgotten how Captain Scarlet had acquired his indestructibility. And how sparse the world in which he lived was. And just how scary the series really was.

    Beautiful picture, by the way.

  • Beautiful. If you go up to Newcastle, where the soldiers’ place is, really early in the morning, you can have something similar. Not exactly, but similar.

    psst…I voted for you on the European blog thing…see Zoe’s blog for the site.

  • hmm I don’t know about Captain Scarlet, but that sure is a great photo. Love it!

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    GG, the question is, why were you hanging round a soldiers’ base in the early morning?

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