Category Archives: history, politics

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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Interventions, and twenty three species of dung beetles.

Posted on April 24, 2025 by jonathan trustram

see also notes on bird hides and on rewilding where I wrote about the dilemma of the National Trust at Wicken Fen: what to do about large mammals suffering and dying, and how to control introduced populations of herbivores, konik ponies … Continue reading →

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The Cannon, and Torpor

Posted on July 1, 2024 by jonathan trustram

The big brown cannon that sits on the cathedral green at Ely puzzles me. The plaque beside it says that it’s a captured Russian cannon from the Crimean war given to the people of Ely by Queen Victoria in 1860 … Continue reading →

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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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a time for national reflection

Posted on November 9, 2023 by jonathan trustram

Often as the Bakerloo line train from Oxford Circus to Waterloo stopped at Charing Cross I have looked out through the windows at the posters which line the platform in an impressive display advertising the National Gallery and the National … 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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Maria and the museum in Exochori

Posted on April 24, 2023 by jonathan trustram

April 18, as scribbled in my notebook: a story which she will never forget – not any detail of it – and which I cannot remember. as it rolled and swelled I did a kind of orchestration by saying, every … Continue reading →

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hand-baked no. 4: come, friendly bombs!

Posted on September 25, 2022 by jonathan trustram

How exciting! And look, here are some happy people! And St Paul’s, there’s always room for St Paul’s – there’s hardly anything else left. And things, nice things, random things, lots of fun: A better tomorrow! with bicycles, birds and … Continue reading →

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Lonesome deaths (or the inconvenience of dearth)

Posted on August 28, 2022 by jonathan trustram

Bury the rag deep in your face, now is the time for your tears’The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll, Bob Dylan Across the world between 1876 and 1879 drought induced famine led to the deaths of millions of people. The … Continue reading →

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a walk in South East London

Posted on January 5, 2022 by jonathan trustram

First I took the train from Stoke Newington to Liverpool Street and walked through our new little Manhattan off Bishopsgate to see the latest skyscrapers we used to call them and the weather was and has been for some time … Continue reading →

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