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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.

Contact

Ria[dot]Bacon[at]gmail.com

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Photo Galleries

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View from the hills

If you are patient enough for the panorama to load (1.42MB; need free Quicktime player?), you’ll see a view from the northern foothills looking south towards Kingston harbour. You can move the panorama using the controls indicated in the bar at the bottom, or just click and drag the image around. You may also

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March 29th, 2007 | Tags: , , | Category: Fnuky Kingston, Movies, Photos | 11 comments

Between a rock and a hard place

Manor Park, Kingston

March 23rd, 2007 | Tags: , , | Category: Fnuky Kingston, Photos | One comment

Jamaica rundown

The opening match of the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 takes place on Tuesday 13 March, at Sabina Park, here in Kingston. Throughout the last year, the complaints and criticisms of the organization of the event have dominated all discussions about the World Cup — lack of Internet access for pre-booking tickets, closure of

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March 9th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Fnuky Kingston, News in brief, Photos | 4 comments

One step forward, two steps back

The first item on the 8 o’clock news on CVM TV this evening was the parliamentary committee debate on the Offences Against the Person Act, in particular, marital rape. This might seem like old news in other parts of the world, but here in Jamaica, there remain laws left over from Victorian times that

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March 7th, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Category: News in brief, Politricks | 4 comments

Relookage

With odds of 7 to 1, you might be surprised by a minor relookage, as the French say, in the form of a new header image. The odds come from a random image rotator, scripted by PhotoMatt, drawing on seven different header images.

Only thing is … the images seem reluctant to change with

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March 7th, 2007 | Tags: , , | Category: Metablogging, Photos | Leave a comment
 
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