Category Archives: diary

Posted on September 9, 2025 by jonathan trustram

anyway – I was going to say – in usual fashion I lay on the sofa and quickly constructed a little essay about the tulip, T. orphanidea in Parnonas – then it immediately seems like a chore to actually write … Continue reading →

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I forgot the whistling duck

Posted on July 26, 2025 by jonathan trustram

.., and other things besides – (see the last post) – did I tell you about the whistling duck before? The pronoun question has to be asked of ducks too of course; I don’t want to say ‘it’, and I … Continue reading →

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Arcadia 2, etc.

Posted on July 21, 2025 by jonathan trustram

On the meadows by the river, I’ve seen this three times: a couple approaches a small group of heifers, quietly, slowly, a little cluster of three or four curious but wary animals, and then someone reaches out towards one, it … Continue reading →

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the Greylag and Arcadia

Posted on May 27, 2025 by jonathan trustram

The landscape in lines, left to right as you walk under the railway bridge at the edge of the town: 1, railway line on a brambled embankment ; 2, damp pasture with reeds and sedge and a shallow lake in … Continue reading →

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notes on bird hides and on rewilding

Posted on December 17, 2024 by jonathan trustram

Four Fields, Tim Dee, p. 51 A new sort of alienation has already been devised: the tristesse of the bird watching hide. I can feel it now in the strange log cabin that has been erected on Tubney fen. Nothing … Continue reading →

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Easy Walks No 6, at home and abroad

Posted on November 23, 2024 by jonathan trustram

Last year I kept wondering if I’d ever be able to walk all the way up Mount Olympus in Greece. I’ve been half way up, to the first refuge, and come down again that same day. Could I stay at … Continue reading →

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Easy Walks No 5, in the Vallon de Nant

Posted on November 13, 2024 by jonathan trustram

Since I looked up the new exchange rate for the Swiss franc I hesitate to recommend a walk in Switzerland, but still, this is a fabulous walk and there’s a good story to it. You can get the Eurostar to … Continue reading →

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Ely Diary

Posted on August 21, 2024 by jonathan trustram

ONE August 16. A notice advertises a visit to a ‘secret garden’, the garden of the old Bishop’s Palace, it doesn’t say what the tickets cost, but since it’s organised by the Cromwell’s House business it won’t be cheap. Just … Continue reading →

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Easy Walks No 3, down to the river

Posted on August 6, 2024 by jonathan trustram

East along Ely high street, past one of England’s finest concentrations of charity shops, and, appropriately, the medieval almonry where charity was distributed to the poor and needy, stopping off at Londis. I fancied drinking a can by the river. … Continue reading →

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Easy Pieces on Easy Mountains in Order of Easiness no 2, Falakro

Posted on January 3, 2024 by jonathan trustram

I know this isn’t a very helpful map. It shows the mountains which are visible from Pangaeo (see Easy Pieces on Easy Mountain Walks in order of easiness, No1, Pangaeo). I’ve written in Drama, a nice place to stay, between Falakro … Continue reading →

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