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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.

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.

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Ria[dot]Bacon[at]gmail.com

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Making light of New Year

It sounds as if we’re in a war zone. The rat-a-tat-tat of automatic weapons in the back lane; sporadic sharp !cracks! of small arms fire from the neighbour’s front door, puffs of smoke blowing up our pathway; and every few minutes, the deep CRUMP of mortar fire across the playing fields … welcome to

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December 30th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: News in brief, The nether lands | 4 comments

He’s coming!

December 4th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: Photos, The nether lands | 2 comments

It’s all Geek to me

It may look as if I’m not busy here, but it’s like a swan, you know? On the surface all is calm and serene, feathers barely ruffled, while below the waterline I’m paddling like crazy. OK, maybe not the best simile, but it’s an elegant excuse for the superficial but time-consuming changes to this

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November 20th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: Metablogging | 2 comments

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

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November 1st, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Category: Photos, The nether lands | 4 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

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