Category Archives: diary

a christmas special, bombing and babies

Posted on December 21, 2023 by jonathan trustram

I have had to hunt for this image from a photograph I took in 2012 in a gallery in Siena. Years ago I copied/uploaded it from my computer onto Photobox and used prints from their site make christmas cards. Sometimes … Continue reading →

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After the first frost in November

Posted on December 12, 2023 by jonathan trustram

It’s as if the subjects of the garden have been subjected to a citizenship test, a freeze and thaw torture which has exposed the illegals. The plectranthus now are scarecrows, cobweb grey; their dead tissues flop, inert, unless stirred by … Continue reading →

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Easy Pieces on Easy Mountain Walks in order of easiness, No1, Pangaeo

Posted on November 27, 2023 by jonathan trustram

Pangaeo, 29th of May, 2019. It lies in south east Greece. The mountain is basically a long, quite narrow ridge from east to west, with several undistinguished summits and views south over the Aegean. Its name means all the Aegean, … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on coming eye to eye with a pigeon on its nest

Posted on August 5, 2023 by jonathan trustram

Feral, that’s what they are. That means they’re ours, and yet not ours. Their ancestors, the rock doves, are still around, mostly on sea cliffs but also inland. Unlike true wild species of birds their colours cover a dazzling range, … Continue reading →

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In the cellar with Phil

Posted on June 4, 2023 by jonathan trustram

may 29 6am got up at half five for the dawn chorus. there wasn’t one. What made me think of Phil? Three or four years ago Matt moved into the ground floor flat next door. He was cheery and neighbourly … Continue reading →

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Water again, fresh excavations.

Posted on March 15, 2023 by jonathan trustram

The villagers of Little Downham in Cambridgeshire made a cart shed out of green oak and recycled 19th century bricks next to their thriving community orchard and woodland. In the shed are various information boards; one tells us that half … Continue reading →

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Water – meanders

Posted on February 2, 2023 by jonathan trustram

(After the New River – ) After the New River I began to think about water mills. And I received a recovered memory. In Bosnia in about 1969, (not that we knew at the time that it was Bosnia, we … Continue reading →

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A litany of praise, and searching for plants

Posted on March 1, 2021 by jonathan trustram

A slide show litany might be a way to overcome or avoid altogether the difficulties I’m having writing this piece, which is to follow on from my embarrassment at getting lost and being stuck in a little red car when … Continue reading →

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the back of Olympos

Posted on February 11, 2021 by jonathan trustram

Last word on the little dragon from Edward Lear in Crete in 1864: ‘brutal-filthy yet picturesque’. My friends Jay and Tina also saw it in Crete, more recently. And Jay had a very different experience near Olympus: “In 1966 a … Continue reading →

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round and round in my head

Posted on November 15, 2020 by jonathan trustram

A nice surprise yesterday, a comment on Peniarth-uchaf and Peniarth Uchaf 2, nearly seven years after I wrote them. I liked that place and the pieces I wrote about it. Here’s the Kardashian building again, which has been nick-named the … Continue reading →

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