Category Archives: my life

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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in Greece, 2024

Posted on February 9, 2025 by jonathan trustram

I measure my decline against the mountain’s incline. This year I was still able, slowly, to walk up from Anavriti to Livadi, from 700 metres above sea level to 1400 metres and then back down by a more circuitous route … Continue reading →

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A dream come true (and an easy walk)

Posted on December 9, 2024 by jonathan trustram

Yesterday, a sunday, I took the train in the gloom to Lakenheath, one stop on the line to Norwich, not counting Shippea Hill, which according to the map is about five metres above sea level. Lakenheath station is a couple … 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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into the past again, naturally: the perfect tulip?

Posted on October 22, 2024 by jonathan trustram

Of course I don’t have a favourite flower, but this is it. In 2016, in April, at the end of a trip to Greece, I drove a long way round back towards the airport, though Parnon, or Parnonas, in the … 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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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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Hand baked from locally sourced ingredients No 8

Posted on November 26, 2023 by jonathan trustram

I’ve been told that going on about Thames Water is boring and I agree but what can I do – the other day I got up and opened the curtain and look: There they are again, making yet more improvements, … 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 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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