Category Archives: language

searching for vibrant, august 2017

Posted on August 23, 2017 by jonathan trustram

(and isn’t it infuriating how they keep turning adjectives into pretentious nouns?) I wrote about my search for the epic, vibrant South Bank here: new outrage in SE1. I’ve been there a few times since, always hopeful. The mix of heritage … Continue reading →

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Icons in SE1

Posted on June 29, 2017 by jonathan trustram

David ‘Born to Dare’ Beckham is currently appearing, in rotation with various “punks” for Brewdog, on a monument, a stainless steel hoarding near the Imax roundabout in Waterloo which serves to block off the view of the National Theatre, those … Continue reading →

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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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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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more on Germany and the war

Posted on December 18, 2016 by jonathan trustram

(see also remembering and forgetting, the bombing of Dresden Victor Klemperer tells the story of a woman who worked alongside him in the factory – but first I should explain that the handful of Jews who remained in Dresden were not … Continue reading →

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Anavriti (in the Peloponnese again)

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jonathan trustram

    (My first visit to the village, in April) Anavriti lies at about 750 metres on the east side of the Taygetos mountains, which run north-south along the central of the three fingers of the southern Peloponnese. These sentences … Continue reading →

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at Lamledra (2) – erosion

Posted on April 11, 2016 by jonathan trustram

see also! At Lamledra    lamledra 3   “In German lingers an old word, Ortsbewustung, designating the bewildering or wildering of a once-maintained, ordered, loved place. In English, bewilderment is a new term, traceable to about 1620. From its beginning it connoted … Continue reading →

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Virgin

Posted on January 17, 2016 by jonathan trustram

Recently I came back to London from Stockport on the train, a Penguilino, geddit? – specially decorated for Christmas by a little girl who won the competition. Family fun is one aspect of Virgin’s presentation. More solemn is the locomotive … Continue reading →

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Vodnikov Dom again, rare plants, rare places

Posted on December 8, 2014 by jonathan trustram

I got stuck. I got lost. I was trying to write about, or move towards writing about, certain perfect spots, mostly in the mountains, and trying not to use words like perfect, or magical, or secret, or timeless, or sacred … Continue reading →

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At Vodnikov Dom 5 plant names, mountain greetings

Posted on October 30, 2014 by jonathan trustram

. Rhodothamnus chamaecistus. Gardeners will notice that the leaves are very like those of an azalea, (which of course is a rhododendron.) 2. It looks particularly beautiful with the light shining through the flowers. 3. A ‘dwarf’ cistus in Greece. 4. … Continue reading →

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