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garden notes no 27, repetition, moralising, looking, the dying of the light

Posted on July 20, 2020 by jonathan trustram

So what do they ‘really look like’? see  Garden notes no 25, Clematis jackmanii, coming true from seed, white variants, ways of seeing(no 25) For an interesting image the photographer often squats or kneels or even lies flat. Down low … Continue reading →

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A proper blog post 2, mostly trains

Posted on October 16, 2018 by jonathan trustram

News from the mainline, whilst waiting for the local train. A few weeks ago you saw trains which said LNER at the front and VIRGIN at the back. Now they’ve almost completed the paint job. But cleverly they’ve kept Beardie’s … Continue reading →

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Climbing into the Centre of the World (the Kastalian Spring)

Posted on September 30, 2018 by jonathan trustram

I’d read that the flowers in and around Delphi, the village and the ancient site, are marvellous, and that a good place to get away from the hordes of visitors is the Kastalian spring. (Some accounts don’t mention the crowds, … Continue reading →

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The journey home

Posted on September 30, 2018 by jonathan trustram

I had a ticket – three tickets – for a daring train journey back from Switzerland. Daring to a Brit that is: you wouldn’t contemplate such a journey in this country. It went like this: dep. Pontresina 8.02 arr. Samedan … Continue reading →

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a proper blog post

Posted on September 30, 2018 by jonathan trustram

A PROPER BLOG I said to myself, Titchmarsh, you fucking prat, for he had landed on the mat with his neatly swept back hair and complacent smile, arms folded, with words from SunLife we are meant to imagine him saying: … Continue reading →

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At St John’s, Waterloo, May 2018

Posted on May 13, 2018 by jonathan trustram

  I was coming round the corner of the church last sunday when all of a sudden I saw two little birds on the tarmac in front of the condemned box hedge. I was amazed.They looked like sparrows. They were … Continue reading →

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on the train

Posted on March 9, 2018 by jonathan trustram

20 September, on the train from Inverness to Edinburgh on the hill going out of Diabaig I reversed a little, as we were two cars caught between Passing Places, and into the ditch I went. I might have been fooled … Continue reading →

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on the slow train

Posted on October 5, 2016 by jonathan trustram

(a few lines written on the slow train from Exeter to Waterloo last year, it was early autumn or late summer, after visiting Jay and Tina.  Just came across them in my diary. I had a little collection of rock … Continue reading →

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A letter to Virgin Trains

Posted on June 12, 2016 by jonathan trustram

This is a letter I’m planning to send to Virgin Trains. Would that be a good idea?  Every word is true, except the statement that I nearly wet myself on the way to the toilet. One little embellishment I allowed … Continue reading →

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mouse

Posted on November 30, 2014 by jonathan trustram

When I walked into the kitchen last night and turned the light on I surprised a mouse on its usual path. They like to run along the back edge of the work surface, close to the wall, round the back … Continue reading →

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