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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Once more unto the intocht, dear friends

All of the Netherlands turned out yesterday to welcome the return of a pensionado (retiree) from Spain — Sinterklaas! And his merry band of pranksters, the Zwaartepieten (Black Peters), whose political incorrectness is tempered by the addition of fantasy Piets, such as the Elvis Piet.

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November 13th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: home front, The nether lands | Leave a comment

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,

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November 1st, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Category: Photos, The nether lands | 5 comments

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

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October 22nd, 2007 | Tags: , , | Category: News in brief, The nether lands | 4 comments

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 mushrooms

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October 8th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: Photos, The nether lands | 3 comments

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

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August 8th, 2006 | Tags: , , | Category: Leaving this place, News in brief, Photos, The nether lands | 5 comments
 
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