Category Archives: my life

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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Olympus 5 – getting lost on the way to Ano Skotina, of walking and fairies

Posted on February 22, 2021 by jonathan trustram

My journey to the ‘sweet little cabin in the woods’ started well, I took Campanula incurva as a good omen. The road up into the hills leaves the coast here. Agamemnon is advertised. I was about to leave my guides … 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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Olympus 3 Dracunculus, tortoise, the monastery, Dresden, garden notes, etc.

Posted on February 6, 2021 by jonathan trustram

Just outside Litochoro, right by the road, I came across a dracunculus – literally little dragon. When you’ve only ever seen something once it takes on special importance. I was driving slowly but you’d see it even if you flashed … Continue reading →

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a celebration

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jonathan trustram

I remembered a trip to the shore of the Thames with a few of the Putting Down Roots volunteers. We went to get stuff for our new rock garden in St George’s churchyard in the Borough, near London Bridge. See … Continue reading →

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Laurieston Hall

Posted on August 15, 2019 by jonathan trustram

May 2012. Laurieston I had another dream about Laurieston. Which toilet to use? Where’s my coat? Then I thought I’d like to take some soil away. So I filled a wheelbarrow, but put so much in that I couldn’t move … Continue reading →

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from my diaries for 2016

Posted on January 26, 2019 by jonathan trustram

I ordered some more sunflower seeds from the RSPB and at the end of the transaction appeared the phrase “I helped give nature a home”. Will nature give me one? July 9    from pocket to pocket, to the mantelpiece, … Continue reading →

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