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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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garden notes no 36. sorry for my absence. some late spring/early summer flowers.

Posted on June 18, 2021 by jonathan trustram

The rains began two days ago and everything changed again. From just a few days ago… the end of spring – the heat is withering the thalictrum flowers, the welsh poppies seem fragile. You might remember the poppy last year … Continue reading →

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lockdown notes

Posted on January 10, 2021 by jonathan trustram

This is driving me mad. This technology I mean. It’s taken me hours to do this

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My computer is broken

Posted on January 2, 2021 by jonathan trustram

and the helpful man in Stamford Hill Computers is trying to find a mother board, interesting term, but she won’t be arriving for some time. It took me a while to find my password, which I don’t need on the … Continue reading →

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garden notes no. 30 Allium angulosum, morning glory, cleansing cobwebs, bees and bulbs

Posted on August 10, 2020 by jonathan trustram

Red hot pokers are named for their unattractive orangey-red nakedness. But this yellow one is nice, and in a social gathering, clustered, not theatrically isolated. This little clump has been growing at St John’s for years, and stands up well … Continue reading →

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garden notes no 29, dahlias, bees, Keats again, a little rant, a mountain memory

Posted on August 7, 2020 by jonathan trustram

What bees and sparrows have in common is their ability to ignore the human presence. This makes it easier to “take part in their existence”. (Keats, see Garden Notes no 21, but here it is again: “I scarcely remember counting … Continue reading →

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Nice people, nice dogs

Posted on September 17, 2019 by jonathan trustram

August 24th. First day back from Laurieston. as the dog and I made our way up towards the fountain by the house so she could have a drink, I saw some pure silver bunches of honesty, a good four feet … Continue reading →

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on the train again

Posted on January 7, 2019 by jonathan trustram

I am sorry to announce that I was on a train from Paddington to St Austell just before Christmas and as we travelled through the silver-grey Somerset floods in a leisurely row row row your boat sort of way the … Continue reading →

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in Clissold Park again

Posted on March 17, 2018 by jonathan trustram

following meanwhile in Clissold Park… They’ve been dumping mounds of horse manure over the beds by the house in Clissold Park, the beds I wrote about last year which were being overwhelmed by bindweed, nettles, thistles and buttercup. Mostly bindweed, the … Continue reading →

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phormiums and cordylines

Posted on January 15, 2017 by jonathan trustram

People said to me, ‘Jonny, why do you hate phormiums and cordylines?’ And I said, ‘well, everybody needs something to hate’.    But the real answer is that they’re horrible. and they’re everywhere, and that I used to have to … Continue reading →

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