Author Archives: jonathan trustram

deck chair knee jerk

Posted on June 29, 2017 by jonathan trustram

Some time last year the Minister for Transport, whoever that was and what ever the department is now called, rejected the Mayor of London’s request that more suburban rail services be added to the Overground network and no longer be … Continue reading →

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meanwhile in Clissold Park…

Posted on May 24, 2017 by jonathan trustram

…with the help of £6,000,000, mostly lottery money, they’ve been creating a bindweed theme park in the new flower gardens, where the old rose garden was taken out, next to the house. here’s some background information, in an article from … Continue reading →

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new outrage in SE1

Posted on May 21, 2017 by jonathan trustram

I’ve been thinking about writing about this for a few weeks now. And I’ve got the photos. I can’t decide whether  it’s a completely cynical project by  developers who maybe controlled and perverted the intentions of all those who took … Continue reading →

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I’ve been busy gardening

Posted on March 22, 2017 by jonathan trustram

John Clare: Where last years leaves and weeds decay March violets are in blow I’d rake the rubbish all away And give them room to grow My favourite poem on gardens and gardening.  He’s not even in a garden, but … Continue reading →

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Moving on in the Gasterntal

Posted on February 25, 2017 by jonathan trustram

Just above Kandersteg in the Bernese Oberland which is easily reached by train, the river Kander comes out of a gorge. The first indication I had that anything untoward had happened was a sign warning that the path had been … Continue reading →

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at a full stop in the Gasterntal

Posted on February 22, 2017 by jonathan trustram

and how to go on? How to write on a subject about which I know next to nothing, but find myself drawn to? But first, one or two more deviations, diversions and prohibitions: 15. We moved to Cold Ashton, north … Continue reading →

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Deviations, Boundaries, Prohibitions, (revised)

Posted on January 22, 2017 by jonathan trustram

In the end I went back a long way, realising how much my walks and walking have been influenced by prohibitions. My mother used to tell the story of how when I was three, I took my little sister Judy … Continue reading →

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phormiums and cordylines

Posted on January 15, 2017 by jonathan trustram

People said to me, ‘Jonny, why do you hate phormiums and cordylines?’ And I said, ‘well, everybody needs something to hate’.    But the real answer is that they’re horrible. and they’re everywhere, and that I used to have to … Continue reading →

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endemics

Posted on January 15, 2017 by jonathan trustram

A few words on the claim, the acclaim, the clamour for endemics. When we say that a disease is endemic, we simply mean established, I think, in a particular area. But when it is said that a plant is endemic … Continue reading →

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‘because I’m a ceramicist’

Posted on January 6, 2017 by jonathan trustram

I read in the Evening Standard that an exhibition is being held of little pots. Someone went on a tour of the building works at London Bridge station and saw the stuff they were digging out of the ground and … Continue reading →

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