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Hole Ousia

being and becoming in the world

  • About me
    • Artwork by Peter
    • Contact
    • Courage to Care
      • ‘Two cultures’
        • Omphatyp’
      • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
        • “This isn’t a priority for us”
        • Bring me sunshine
        • The Scottish Government has chosen not to listen to the Scottish people
        • The voices of the people really do matter
      • Curriculum vitae
      • Declaration of interests
      • Delirium screening
        • ‘Informed consent is a fundamental principle underlying all healthcare’
        • Faltering, unfaltering steps
        • Haloperidol prescribing to Scotland’s elders
        • Infusion of worldwide teas
        • NHS Scotland requires a culture that listens to all
        • Scientific progress requires open-minded enquiry
        • The benefits of clinical engagement
        • The hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people
      • In support of professional values
      • Leading to the Exit door
      • Leaving a profession
      • Looks out for each other
      • Medical publications
      • Messages about my retirement
      • Testimonials for Dr Peter J. Gordon
      • The Governance of the NHS in Scotland
      • The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
      • Timely diagnosis of dementia
        • Dementia: the “epidemic” of metaphors
        • Dementia: who is in the “driving seat”?
        • I was concerned about our most elderly
        • Scotland’s approach to Dementia Diagnosis
        • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
          • “This House supports the early detection of dementia”
            • The result: ‘Motion defeated’
          • Back in the driving seat: Industry
          • Dementia Case-Finding: language and ethics
          • EPAD co-coordinator: Professor Craig Ritchie
          • Glasgow Memory Clinic
          • Hide and Seek
          • In a “muddle”?
          • Issues not considered in the ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
          • National Clinical Director for Dementia: Professor Alistair Burns
          • Professor says: “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
            • absurdum
          • Snakes, ladders and Monopoly
          • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’ – a timeline
        • Wandering, wondering and worrying
    • Deeside Tales
      • Short films about Deeside
      • To be humbled.
    • Films made by Peter
      • 3 films that almost ended my career
      • A maker of beautiful books
        • The Great Tapestry of Scotland
      • A new way of seeing
      • A Thousand Chances
      • Alive in the river of light
      • Angelology
      • Bridge of Allan
      • bridges
      • Canto two
      • Finding Cimbrone
      • Folk worth talking about
      • friendship itself
      • Glenbardy
      • Go seek adventures
      • Here is where we meet
      • I am part of all that I have met
      • Important note about my films
      • in its ending
      • incorrigibly plural
      • It was the singing
      • Language is leaving me
      • Let the anchor go
      • Little Sparta
      • living mountains
      • man with the child in his eyes
      • Marginalia
      • mathematically me
      • Mossgrove garden
      • my library-haunting self
      • of an Antiquary
      • Oor big braw Cosmos
      • Political pieces
      • Progress hardly broke its stride
      • sensitive to the faltering steps of age
      • Sheramoor
      • Stravaiging need not be lonely
      • The anatomy of emotion
      • the blue flower
      • The bright cave under the hat
      • The Cabrach
      • the Glentruim series
      • The Rebel Antiquary
      • They fell for us
      • this gifted gardener [I discovered one day]
      • Time passes. Listen
      • To see what Scott saw:
      • Trees: age and beauty do go together
      • [Series II]
    • Firrhill High School
    • Hole Ousia [what does it mean?]
    • Mavisbank
      • On Esca’s Flow’ry Bank
      • Short films about Mavisbank
    • MEDICINE
      • Films about MEDICINE
      • Films about PSYCHIATRY
      • Films and Sapere Aude
      • Films on ETHICS
      • Films on Professional VALUES
      • Films that consider ‘First Do No Harm’
    • My dissertation on hedges
    • My schooling
    • Peter’s poems
      • One-word poems
    • Publications in the “Leopard”
    • The Ageing Stone
    • The speaking hedge
    • What is in a name?
  • being and becoming
    • “A place with no quotation marks”
    • Academic reductionisms
    • Admissions of doubt
    • Ariel
    • Cell Mates
    • Medical “truants”
    • Multifarious learners
      • A fortunate man
      • Dr Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
      • Dr Arthur J. Brock
      • Dr Arthur Mitchell
      • Dr Daniel Reid Rankin
      • Dr Gavin Francis
      • Dr James Sheridan Knowles
      • Dr Leon Eisenberg
      • Dr Samuel Brown (1817 – 1856)
      • Edmund de Waal
      • Femi Oyebode
      • George Washington Wilson
      • Graham Watt
      • James Clerk Maxwell
      • James Ferguson
      • James Skene
      • John Berger
        • Here is where we meet
      • John Frederick William Herschel
      • K. J. Fowler
      • Kenneth Calman
      • Mr and Mrs Rose
      • Nadar
      • Patrick Matthew
      • Rev George Gilfillan
      • Richard Feynman
      • Scottish women writers
      • Sir Harry Burns
      • Theodore Dalrymple
      • Thomas Browne
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Lewson Burrowes
      • William Ramsay
    • Philosophers
      • Albert Camus
      • Andrew Greig
      • Dr John Flaxman
      • Dugald Stewart
      • John Macmurray
      • John Stuart Mill
      • Mary Midgley
      • Raymond Tallis
    • Poets
      • Alexander laing
      • Caledonian Antisyzygy
      • Carol Ann Duffy
      • Daniel Abse
      • Edwin Morgan
      • Iain Banks
      • Iain Crichton Smith
      • Ivor Gurney
      • James Hyslop
      • James M Slimmon
      • John Betjeman
      • John Halliday
      • Kathleen Jamie
      • Kieron Winn
      • La Teste
      • Leonard Cohen
      • Liz Lochhead
      • Norman MacCaig
      • Patrick Deeley
      • Paul Muldoon
      • Peter Davidson
      • Rab Wilson
      • Rabbie Burns
      • Robert Fergusson
      • Robert Nicholl
      • Robert Pollok
      • Robin Hyde
      • Sylvia Plath
      • T S Eliot
      • Ted Hughes
      • Tom Leonard
      • Tomas Tranströmer
      • Wilfred Owen
      • William Carlos Williams
      • William Soutar
    • Sapere Aude
      • A bit of a prat
      • a very clever young man
      • Caroline Phillips
      • Chrys Muirhead
      • Claire Fox
      • Dr Donald Brownlie
      • Dr Margaret McCartney
      • Fara McAfee
      • Gawaine Baillie
      • Gerald
      • Hale-Bopp
      • Humpty Dumpty
      • I mistook myself for a scientific label
      • Jessie Lennox (a Nightingale)
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Aubrey
      • King Kong
      • Margaret Maberley Gordon
      • O. G. S. Crawford
      • Omphatyp’
      • Owen Jones
      • Richard Holloway
      • Richard Taylor
      • Roy Porter
      • Stanley Murray
    • Writers
      • A L Kennedy
      • A S Byatt
      • Adam Nicolson
      • Alan Trotter
      • Alexander McCall Smith
      • Ali Smith
      • Alice Hoffman
      • Andrew Greig
      • Andrew Miller
      • Annalena MacAfee
      • Anne Tyler
      • Anthony Doerr
      • Candia McWilliam
      • Cesare Pavese
      • Charlotte Peacock
      • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
      • David Szalay
      • Deborah Levy
      • Douglas Stuart
      • E M Forster
      • Emily Fridlund
      • Ernest Hemingway
      • Evelyn Waugh
      • Fiona Mozley
      • Ford Madox Ford
      • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
      • Gabriel García Marquez
      • Geoff Dyer
      • George Orwell
      • George Saunders
      • Hanya Yanagihara
      • Howard Jacobson
      • Iris Murdoch
      • J. D. Salinger
      • Janice Galloway
      • Jessie Burton
      • John Buchan
      • John Lanchester
      • John Steinbeck
      • Julian Barnes
      • Kazuo Ishiguro
      • Lampedusa
      • Laurie Lee
      • Madeleine Thien
      • Marcel Proust
      • Margaret Drabble
      • Matt Haig
      • Max Porter
      • Mohsin Hamid
      • Mukul Kesavan
      • Muriel Spark
      • Nan Shepherd
      • Nathan Filer
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Otessa Moshfegh
      • Penelope Fitzgerald
      • Richard Flanagan
      • Richard Holmes
      • Richard Yates
      • Roald Dahl
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Robert Seethaler
      • Rudyard Kipling
      • Sara Baume
      • Thomas Mann
      • Virginia Woolf
      • Vladimir Nabakov
      • Will Cohu
      • William Boyd
      • Yann Martel
  • in the world
    • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
      • “The influence of pharma is not excessive”
      • ‘Listen, let the people petition and be heard’
      • ‘To influence others by offering money’
      • A matter for others
      • Bring me a sunshine act
      • British Psychiatry: Marketing as ‘Education’
        • “A robust learning environment for healthcare professionals”
        • “An ethical relationship with pharma”
        • “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
        • “FULLY BOOKED”
        • “MacDonald’s to advise on childhood nutrition”
        • “P R O M I S C U O U S”
        • “The place to go to” for CPD
        • “Working with the drug industry—is your reputation at risk?”
        • ‘Fees for services’
        • ‘Industry Biased Medicine’
        • ‘Medical Education for the 21st Century’
        • ‘MEDICAL EDUCATION: In the grip of industry?’
        • ‘Psychiatry without borders’
        • ‘Welcome to Pharmacare’
        • 2017 International Congress: Psychiatry without Borders
        • ABC of Mental Health: Depression
        • BAP ‘educator’ on prescribing received $3,581,159 in payments from Pharma
        • Conflict of interest and the British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Continuing Medical ‘Education’
        • Darkness prevails: the Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Data Protection: The Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Is academic psychiatry for sale?
        • It’s boom time for the College
        • Latuda: vigorously marketed in The UK
        • Paid Opinion Leaders
        • Pharmaceutical influence and psychiatrists
        • Prescribing Guidelines: let’s be transparent
        • Professors A, B, and C
        • Puritanical or Platinum?
        • Rising stars: British Association of Psychopharmacology
        • Royal College of Psychiatrists: “This is a matter for the Government to decide”
        • Satellite symposia and paid opinion leaders
        • Simon said
        • The British Journal of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Industry advertising
          • “SPECIAL ARTICLE”
          • ‘AUTHENTICITY’
        • The Defeat Depression Campaign
          • “Buy it, read it and recommend it!”
          • “CONSENSUS STATEMENT”
            • Managing depression in general practice
          • “Defeating depression in old age”
          • “Dista Products [for] Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993”
          • “Fear of dependency”
          • “Fun Run”
          • “Generously sponsored by Smith Kline & Beecham”
          • “Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
          • “The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
          • “To mount a glossy campaign on the basis of this method is frankly disturbing”
          • ‘Antidepressants unlimited’
          • ‘Continuing to defeat depression’
          • ‘Costs should have been considered’
          • ‘Defeat Depression: A European Perspective’
          • ‘Dyspeptic Dinner Entertainment’
          • ‘The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry’
          • ‘Warm-up led by former DJ of Capital Radio’
          • ‘We cannot be in the pockets of the Pharma companies’
          • ‘Why can’t GPs follow guidelines on depression?’
          • (orders 100+ at 25p per leaflet)
          • A summary of the Educational Components
          • An ‘Educational Campaign’ sponsored by Pharma
          • How to Defeat Depression
          • Is depression a chronic illness?
          • LILLY Pharmaceuticals: the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • Mass prescribing
          • My career began with the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • One-and-the-same
          • Psychiatry in General Practice: a ‘Campaign’ begins
          • Putting caring conversations into practice
          • RCPsych archive: 5 Boxes
          • SSRIs: “Public confidence needs to be restored”
          • The ‘Chemical imbalance’ theory
          • This historical campaign has vital lessons for today
          • Video Training Package
          • What Price Depression?
        • The latest ‘Platinum Sponsor’ for RCPsych conference
        • The Law of the Few
        • The mismatch
        • Transparency and British Psychiatry: Hold the applause
        • Transparency at the Top
        • Who pays the piper?
      • Led Astray – Industry’s Influence on Drug and Device Watchdogs
      • Medicine remains as conflicted as ever
      • Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
        • “Attacks on antidepressants”
        • “Discontinuation syndrome”: sophistry of the drug industry
        • A timeline of missed opportunities
          • “Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”
        • Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”
          • Words and numbers should be used with equal care
        • Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms -Telephone calls to a national medication helpline
        • Collective values of an organisation in the era of social media
          • RCPsych Presidential elections [2022/23]: in support of Dr Kate Lovett
        • Coming off antidepressants
        • Cumberlege Report: First Do No Harm
          • A reply to a Lifetime Achievement Awardee
            • A loss to science
          • Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?
          • Language and professional values
            • ‘Why all this nastiness?’: Twitter
            • 2019: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
            • 2022: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
          • Language Matters: indeed it does
          • Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ
          • Medicine’s contract with society
          • Polypropylene Mesh Implants
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: past, present and future
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: the profession speaks
          • Psychiatrist #1 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #2 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #3 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #4 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #5 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
            • “Stay classy”
            • ‘outside the circle of listeners’
        • Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]
        • Discontinuation of antidepressant therapy [1997 symposium]
        • Gilbert Farie Revisited
        • RCPsych [Prescribed harm]
          • “Another me exists”
          • “Casual false reassurances”
          • A letter in the Times
          • An extraordinary divide
          • Antidepressant withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • SIBERIA
          • The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
          • unanswered
        • Realistic prescribing
          • “It’s BOOM time in Industry”
          • “That prescription figure is high”
          • ‘A generation in crisis’
          • ‘The Medical Untouchables’
          • Our own window
          • Psychiatry in Fabula
          • Science Media Centre
          • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for the Elderly
          • The Narrative Controllers
            • ‘Chumcentric’
          • The Neon Yellow Preservation Society
          • Unanswered
        • Stigma and Psychiatry
        • The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm]
          • “Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”
          • “Villains and Demonisers”
          • ‘Antidepressant use: changing patterns, cost and clinical effectiveness’
          • Antidepressants: ‘no good evidence’ for long-term use
      • Trial by Anecdote
      • Unrealistic Medicine
    • Architecture
      • ‘The Story of Drummond Place’
      • 18 Kilrymont Road
      • Abbotsford
      • Andrew Crosbie’s House
      • Auchinleck House
      • Bute House
      • Charles Brand Ltd
      • Dalhousie Memorial Arch
      • Drummond Place, Edinburgh
      • Edinburgh’s first Theatre
      • Forglen Mausoleum
      • Gladney House
      • Glasgow Necropolis
      • GOLDBERGS
      • Hermits and Termits
      • Hospitalfield House
      • Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
      • Kildonan House
      • Kinneil House
      • Mar Lodge, Stirling
      • McCaig’s Tower, Oban
      • Moatbrae House, Dumfries
      • Monument to the Political Martyrs’
      • Muschat’s cairn
      • Old Royal High School, Edinburgh
      • Scottish architectural follies
      • SeaPark
      • Shakespeare Square
      • St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
      • Temple of the Muses
      • TEMPLE [Cupar]
      • The galleria
      • The Red Road flats
      • The Wallace Monument
      • The Well of the Seven Heads
      • Tower of Glenstrae
      • Warriston Gates
    • Ardeer Explosive’s Factory
    • Bridges
      • Abergeldie foot-bridge
      • Boat o’Brig
      • Brewlands bridge
      • Broom of Moy
      • Broomhill wooden bridge
      • Faery Bridge, Dunblane
      • Forth Road Bridge
      • Garva bridge
      • Haugh of Drimmie
      • Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
      • Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
      • Millhaugh bridge
      • Old White Bridge
      • Tay Bridge
      • The bridge to nowhere
      • The Glenfinnan Viaduct
      • The Old Bridge of Livet
      • Twa Gables
    • CITIES
      • Films about ABERDEEN
      • Films about DUNDEE
      • Films about EDINBURGH
      • Films about GLASGOW
      • Films about PERTH
      • Films about STIRLING
    • D.L.R.O.W
      • The mild cigar
    • Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
    • Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
    • landscapes (time held green)
      • ‘Hill of the Resurrection’
      • Carsebreck
      • Cliff House
      • Dunbuy
      • Duncryne
      • Garden Archaeology
      • Gardeners
        • ‘Gardener Found Insane’
        • A high summer garden
        • A new generation of gardeners
        • A Nursery Manager
        • Abergeldie’s gardener
        • Alexander Marr
        • Alexander Walker
        • Arbigland’s gardener
        • Boghead, Bathgate
        • Carnbroe’s gairdener
        • Charles Bell, Ormistoun Hall
        • Charles Frampton
        • Charles Webster
        • COREHOUSE
        • David Pringle Laird
        • Davina, Lady Stair
        • Eagle and Henderson
        • Glassingall Gardener
        • Glentulchan gardener
        • Helen Carmichael
        • James Hossack, Castle Cluny
        • James Ironside
        • James Sutherland
        • John Halliday
        • John Wright Paton
        • Last of Horse Wynd
        • Miss Hope
        • Monty Don
        • Ninian Niven
        • No.1 Shrub Place
        • OLDEST GARDENER
        • Patrick’s garden
        • Peter and Sian’s garden
        • Peter Gordon, gardener
        • Peter Rankin, Glen Creran
        • Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’
        • Peter Thomson: ‘the patient art of fieldwalking’
        • R E E K I A N A
        • Return to the seed
        • Robert Graham of Tamrawer
        • Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens
        • Robert Rust
        • Scotland’s Silver Glen
        • Teri and Paul Hodge-Neale
        • The Abbotsford gardener
        • The Astronomical Gardener
        • The auld gardener
        • The gardener of Finca Vigia
        • The gentle gardener
        • The Queen’s Gardener
        • The Sisters’ Garden
        • Thomas Cleghorn
        • Tom Spence
        • Under Gardener [D U N I R A]
        • Volunteer gardener
        • Wellington Dauncey
        • William Rutherford
      • Garrel Glen
      • Gauch
      • Glen Girnoc
        • Abergeldie castle
        • Bovaglie
          • Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)
          • The Bovaglie manuscript
        • Loinveg
        • The Camlet
      • Glenbardy
      • ISLANDS
        • Alloa Inch
        • Eilean Fhianain
        • Eilean nam Faoileag
        • Eilean Subhainn
        • Inchcolm island
        • Linga Isle
        • Lismore
        • Lucky Scaup
        • Samalaman
        • St Kilda
        • Vallay
      • Jock’s Road
      • Kilmadock churchyard
      • Leckie Glen
      • Little Sparta
      • Lochnagar
      • Stronmilchan
      • The Devil’s Pulpit
      • The Dragon’s Hole
      • The Hill
      • The John Muir Way
      • The living mountain
      • The Lost Garden of Dunira
      • The lost garden of Penicuik
      • The suicide graves
      • Wanzie
    • Mental Health Tsar
    • Mortar and Pestles
    • Necessity Brae
    • Rogues’ Gallery
      • Duncan Paton
      • Helen Nicholson
      • John Grovenor
      • John Moir
      • John Yates alias John Hewitt, Patrick Hines, John Miller, John Roy
      • Peter [alias John]
      • Philip Hughes
      • The Highland Hotel Robbers
      • William Slater
    • The Great Globe
    • The Jam factory
    • Trees
      • Beauly’s Wych Elm
      • Goodnestone chestnut tree
      • One way of measuring a tree
      • Sir Walter Scott’s Tree
      • The bicycle tree
      • The Lanrick stone tree
      • The Wallace Oak
      • Yew trees
        • Adam and Eve Yews
        • An incredibly ancient child
        • “When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree”
        • Chapel of the Yew Trees
        • Craigend Yew
        • Earlshall [shapes abandoned]
        • I Vow Yew
        • Rockingham elephants
        • Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees
        • St Columba’s Yew
        • Stow on Wold Yews
        • The Abbotshall Yew
        • The Auchendrane Yew
        • The circular Yew hedge
        • The Culfargie Yew
        • The Fraser Yew
        • The Inchbrakie Yew
        • The little loch of the yew grove
        • The Ormiston Yew
        • The Raploch Yew
        • The Somerleyton Yew
        • The Wallace Yew
    • Waverley
  • Mind The Gap
  • where time passes (listen)
    • Bridge of Allan
      • ‘Quote of the week’
      • A bridge over the Allan Water
      • Chemists and Apothecaries
        • Charles Neil Rutherfoord
        • Gilbert Farie
        • Oswald Robertson
      • Drumdruills
        • Beware the Fly!
        • Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
        • Millad
        • Miss Jessie lennox
        • Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
        • Rab Scott
        • Stevenson’s cave
        • The Wharry Glen
        • The Wrights of Loss
      • Films about BRIDGE of ALLAN
      • Fire Brigade
      • Fountain of Nineveh
        • A dry fountain that once gushed and sparkled in the sunlight
      • History
        • ‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
        • ARCHIVE [old photographs and writings]
        • Craig Mair
        • Glimpses of Local History
        • Landmarks of Bridge of Allan
      • Lecropt
        • ‘A Lecropt Girl’
        • Keir Estate, Stirling
        • Keirfield
          • David Rutherfoord
        • Lecropt and Larger Scotland
        • Ten summers fade
        • The Rutherfoord letters
      • Mossgrove
        • Arborglyphs
        • Diary of a house
        • FAMILY films
        • Hale Bopp
        • He cannot unlearn the feeling
        • MERRYTHOUGHT
        • Mossgrove garden
        • Our cats
        • Our graffiti bench
        • The Medicine is in Aberdeen
        • The son of a Bank Manager
        • This is not yesterday
        • Tillybin
          • VANDAL
        • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
        • We follow them, as they are us
      • Photographs of Bridge of Allan
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Sheriffmuir
      • Shops, buildings and houses
        • 105 Henderson Street
        • Fernfield
        • John Cullens
        • Museum Hall
        • Music Hall
          • Mrs Hamilton
          • Professor Ewart
          • Professor Whitworth
        • Our first village shop
        • SPA CLEAN [ZERO WASTE]
        • St Ann’s
        • The Cleopatra needle
        • The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
        • The Well House, Bridge of Allan
      • The Ochils
        • Ashintrool
        • Hercules
        • in a SERIES II Land Rover
        • Jerah
      • Village doctors
        • Dr Alexander Wilkie Paterson
        • Dr Andrew S. Biggart
        • Dr Balbirnie
        • Dr Eric Dow
        • Dr John Hosack Fraser
        • Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord
        • Dr Mary Baird Hannah
        • Dr William Eagleson Gordon
        • Dr William Haldane
        • Dr William Halliday Welsh
      • Villagers [old and new]
        • A poet as well as a gardener
        • Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s
        • Finn Russell
        • Hector Dove
        • Holed out in ONE!
        • John McCaig
        • Old Village Worthies
        • Remembering Ian and Malcolm
        • Rev Charles Rogers
        • The Owl Man
        • The Tufty Club
        • Waller Hugh Paton
    • Dunblane
      • Andy Murray
      • Dunblane Cathedral reopens
    • Folk worth talking about
      • “Dr Frederick Adair”
      • ‘Big Kate’
      • ‘Black’ John Skirving
      • ‘Bob Dragon’
      • ‘Dr William Brodum”
      • ‘Whistling Willie,’ the LION MAN
      • A Big Burd
      • A Railway-Porter Astronomer
      • Agnes Mary
      • Alexander Ormiston Curle
      • Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA
      • Allison
      • Aloysius
      • Andrew Wilson
      • Angus John Campbell
      • Ann Shaw
      • Anne Grant of Laggan
      • Annie Graham Baird
      • Arthur
      • Aubrey Beardsley
      • Betty Mouat
      • Burrish Lyons
      • C. P. Snow
      • Captain Alexander Morrison
      • Captain Michael Slater
      • Captain Peter Gordon
      • Captain Phillips
      • Carol Colburn Grigor
      • Caroline Stuart Clarke
      • Charlotte Skinner
      • Clive Wright
      • Colin McWilliam
      • CYNICUS
      • Dandie Dinmont
      • Dani Garavelli
      • David Bowie
      • Davina Gordon
      • Diana Rigg
      • Doddie Weir
      • Dr John Stuart
      • Dr Pat Beausang
      • Dr Quackleben
      • Drue Heinz
      • Elijah Wood
      • Elizabeth and Ada
      • Ella Rae
      • Emma Raducanu
      • Ena Scott
      • Eric Redmond
      • Esmé Gordon
      • Felix Feneon
      • Florence Taylor
      • Francis Moncrieff
      • Fynes Moryson
      • Geoffrey Jellicoe
      • Gregory’s girl
      • Gunnar Jungner
      • Hannah Ann Stirling
      • Hector Dove
      • Henrietta
      • Ian Collins
      • Ivor Gurney
      • J. J. R. Macleod
      • James Ferguson
      • James Maxwell Glover Wilson
      • James Muir
      • James Woodburn Dunlop
      • Jane Creighton
      • Janet B Wood
      • Jenny Nettles
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Byrne
      • John Glen Parker
      • John Mackenzie Bacon
      • John Marshall Scott
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“Serious Sweet” by A L Kennedy. This book has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, 2016. It was reviewed in Scottish Review of Books:

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        • Simon said
        • The British Journal of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Industry advertising
          • “SPECIAL ARTICLE”
          • ‘AUTHENTICITY’
        • The Defeat Depression Campaign
          • “Buy it, read it and recommend it!”
          • “CONSENSUS STATEMENT”
            • Managing depression in general practice
          • “Defeating depression in old age”
          • “Dista Products [for] Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993”
          • “Fear of dependency”
          • “Fun Run”
          • “Generously sponsored by Smith Kline & Beecham”
          • “Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
          • “The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
          • “To mount a glossy campaign on the basis of this method is frankly disturbing”
          • ‘Antidepressants unlimited’
          • ‘Continuing to defeat depression’
          • ‘Costs should have been considered’
          • ‘Defeat Depression: A European Perspective’
          • ‘Dyspeptic Dinner Entertainment’
          • ‘The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry’
          • ‘Warm-up led by former DJ of Capital Radio’
          • ‘We cannot be in the pockets of the Pharma companies’
          • ‘Why can’t GPs follow guidelines on depression?’
          • (orders 100+ at 25p per leaflet)
          • A summary of the Educational Components
          • An ‘Educational Campaign’ sponsored by Pharma
          • How to Defeat Depression
          • Is depression a chronic illness?
          • LILLY Pharmaceuticals: the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • Mass prescribing
          • My career began with the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • One-and-the-same
          • Psychiatry in General Practice: a ‘Campaign’ begins
          • Putting caring conversations into practice
          • RCPsych archive: 5 Boxes
          • SSRIs: “Public confidence needs to be restored”
          • The ‘Chemical imbalance’ theory
          • This historical campaign has vital lessons for today
          • Video Training Package
          • What Price Depression?
        • The latest ‘Platinum Sponsor’ for RCPsych conference
        • The Law of the Few
        • The mismatch
        • Transparency and British Psychiatry: Hold the applause
        • Transparency at the Top
        • Who pays the piper?
      • Led Astray – Industry’s Influence on Drug and Device Watchdogs
      • Medicine remains as conflicted as ever
      • Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
        • “Attacks on antidepressants”
        • “Discontinuation syndrome”: sophistry of the drug industry
        • A timeline of missed opportunities
          • “Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”
        • Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”
          • Words and numbers should be used with equal care
        • Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms -Telephone calls to a national medication helpline
        • Collective values of an organisation in the era of social media
          • RCPsych Presidential elections [2022/23]: in support of Dr Kate Lovett
        • Coming off antidepressants
        • Cumberlege Report: First Do No Harm
          • A reply to a Lifetime Achievement Awardee
            • A loss to science
          • Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?
          • Language and professional values
            • ‘Why all this nastiness?’: Twitter
            • 2019: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
            • 2022: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
          • Language Matters: indeed it does
          • Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ
          • Medicine’s contract with society
          • Polypropylene Mesh Implants
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: past, present and future
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: the profession speaks
          • Psychiatrist #1 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #2 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #3 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #4 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #5 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
            • “Stay classy”
            • ‘outside the circle of listeners’
        • Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]
        • Discontinuation of antidepressant therapy [1997 symposium]
        • Gilbert Farie Revisited
        • RCPsych [Prescribed harm]
          • “Another me exists”
          • “Casual false reassurances”
          • A letter in the Times
          • An extraordinary divide
          • Antidepressant withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • SIBERIA
          • The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
          • unanswered
        • Realistic prescribing
          • “It’s BOOM time in Industry”
          • “That prescription figure is high”
          • ‘A generation in crisis’
          • ‘The Medical Untouchables’
          • Our own window
          • Psychiatry in Fabula
          • Science Media Centre
          • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for the Elderly
          • The Narrative Controllers
            • ‘Chumcentric’
          • The Neon Yellow Preservation Society
          • Unanswered
        • Stigma and Psychiatry
        • The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm]
          • “Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”
          • “Villains and Demonisers”
          • ‘Antidepressant use: changing patterns, cost and clinical effectiveness’
          • Antidepressants: ‘no good evidence’ for long-term use
      • Trial by Anecdote
      • Unrealistic Medicine
    • Architecture
      • ‘The Story of Drummond Place’
      • 18 Kilrymont Road
      • Abbotsford
      • Andrew Crosbie’s House
      • Auchinleck House
      • Bute House
      • Charles Brand Ltd
      • Dalhousie Memorial Arch
      • Drummond Place, Edinburgh
      • Edinburgh’s first Theatre
      • Forglen Mausoleum
      • Gladney House
      • Glasgow Necropolis
      • GOLDBERGS
      • Hermits and Termits
      • Hospitalfield House
      • Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
      • Kildonan House
      • Kinneil House
      • Mar Lodge, Stirling
      • McCaig’s Tower, Oban
      • Moatbrae House, Dumfries
      • Monument to the Political Martyrs’
      • Muschat’s cairn
      • Old Royal High School, Edinburgh
      • Scottish architectural follies
      • SeaPark
      • Shakespeare Square
      • St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
      • Temple of the Muses
      • TEMPLE [Cupar]
      • The galleria
      • The Red Road flats
      • The Wallace Monument
      • The Well of the Seven Heads
      • Tower of Glenstrae
      • Warriston Gates
    • Ardeer Explosive’s Factory
    • Bridges
      • Abergeldie foot-bridge
      • Boat o’Brig
      • Brewlands bridge
      • Broom of Moy
      • Broomhill wooden bridge
      • Faery Bridge, Dunblane
      • Forth Road Bridge
      • Garva bridge
      • Haugh of Drimmie
      • Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
      • Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
      • Millhaugh bridge
      • Old White Bridge
      • Tay Bridge
      • The bridge to nowhere
      • The Glenfinnan Viaduct
      • The Old Bridge of Livet
      • Twa Gables
    • CITIES
      • Films about ABERDEEN
      • Films about DUNDEE
      • Films about EDINBURGH
      • Films about GLASGOW
      • Films about PERTH
      • Films about STIRLING
    • D.L.R.O.W
      • The mild cigar
    • Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
    • Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
    • landscapes (time held green)
      • ‘Hill of the Resurrection’
      • Carsebreck
      • Cliff House
      • Dunbuy
      • Duncryne
      • Garden Archaeology
      • Gardeners
        • ‘Gardener Found Insane’
        • A high summer garden
        • A new generation of gardeners
        • A Nursery Manager
        • Abergeldie’s gardener
        • Alexander Marr
        • Alexander Walker
        • Arbigland’s gardener
        • Boghead, Bathgate
        • Carnbroe’s gairdener
        • Charles Bell, Ormistoun Hall
        • Charles Frampton
        • Charles Webster
        • COREHOUSE
        • David Pringle Laird
        • Davina, Lady Stair
        • Eagle and Henderson
        • Glassingall Gardener
        • Glentulchan gardener
        • Helen Carmichael
        • James Hossack, Castle Cluny
        • James Ironside
        • James Sutherland
        • John Halliday
        • John Wright Paton
        • Last of Horse Wynd
        • Miss Hope
        • Monty Don
        • Ninian Niven
        • No.1 Shrub Place
        • OLDEST GARDENER
        • Patrick’s garden
        • Peter and Sian’s garden
        • Peter Gordon, gardener
        • Peter Rankin, Glen Creran
        • Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’
        • Peter Thomson: ‘the patient art of fieldwalking’
        • R E E K I A N A
        • Return to the seed
        • Robert Graham of Tamrawer
        • Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens
        • Robert Rust
        • Scotland’s Silver Glen
        • Teri and Paul Hodge-Neale
        • The Abbotsford gardener
        • The Astronomical Gardener
        • The auld gardener
        • The gardener of Finca Vigia
        • The gentle gardener
        • The Queen’s Gardener
        • The Sisters’ Garden
        • Thomas Cleghorn
        • Tom Spence
        • Under Gardener [D U N I R A]
        • Volunteer gardener
        • Wellington Dauncey
        • William Rutherford
      • Garrel Glen
      • Gauch
      • Glen Girnoc
        • Abergeldie castle
        • Bovaglie
          • Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)
          • The Bovaglie manuscript
        • Loinveg
        • The Camlet
      • Glenbardy
      • ISLANDS
        • Alloa Inch
        • Eilean Fhianain
        • Eilean nam Faoileag
        • Eilean Subhainn
        • Inchcolm island
        • Linga Isle
        • Lismore
        • Lucky Scaup
        • Samalaman
        • St Kilda
        • Vallay
      • Jock’s Road
      • Kilmadock churchyard
      • Leckie Glen
      • Little Sparta
      • Lochnagar
      • Stronmilchan
      • The Devil’s Pulpit
      • The Dragon’s Hole
      • The Hill
      • The John Muir Way
      • The living mountain
      • The Lost Garden of Dunira
      • The lost garden of Penicuik
      • The suicide graves
      • Wanzie
    • Mental Health Tsar
    • Mortar and Pestles
    • Necessity Brae
    • Rogues’ Gallery
      • Duncan Paton
      • Helen Nicholson
      • John Grovenor
      • John Moir
      • John Yates alias John Hewitt, Patrick Hines, John Miller, John Roy
      • Peter [alias John]
      • Philip Hughes
      • The Highland Hotel Robbers
      • William Slater
    • The Great Globe
    • The Jam factory
    • Trees
      • Beauly’s Wych Elm
      • Goodnestone chestnut tree
      • One way of measuring a tree
      • Sir Walter Scott’s Tree
      • The bicycle tree
      • The Lanrick stone tree
      • The Wallace Oak
      • Yew trees
        • Adam and Eve Yews
        • An incredibly ancient child
        • “When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree”
        • Chapel of the Yew Trees
        • Craigend Yew
        • Earlshall [shapes abandoned]
        • I Vow Yew
        • Rockingham elephants
        • Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees
        • St Columba’s Yew
        • Stow on Wold Yews
        • The Abbotshall Yew
        • The Auchendrane Yew
        • The circular Yew hedge
        • The Culfargie Yew
        • The Fraser Yew
        • The Inchbrakie Yew
        • The little loch of the yew grove
        • The Ormiston Yew
        • The Raploch Yew
        • The Somerleyton Yew
        • The Wallace Yew
    • Waverley
  • Mind The Gap
  • where time passes (listen)
    • Bridge of Allan
      • ‘Quote of the week’
      • A bridge over the Allan Water
      • Chemists and Apothecaries
        • Charles Neil Rutherfoord
        • Gilbert Farie
        • Oswald Robertson
      • Drumdruills
        • Beware the Fly!
        • Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
        • Millad
        • Miss Jessie lennox
        • Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
        • Rab Scott
        • Stevenson’s cave
        • The Wharry Glen
        • The Wrights of Loss
      • Films about BRIDGE of ALLAN
      • Fire Brigade
      • Fountain of Nineveh
        • A dry fountain that once gushed and sparkled in the sunlight
      • History
        • ‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
        • ARCHIVE [old photographs and writings]
        • Craig Mair
        • Glimpses of Local History
        • Landmarks of Bridge of Allan
      • Lecropt
        • ‘A Lecropt Girl’
        • Keir Estate, Stirling
        • Keirfield
          • David Rutherfoord
        • Lecropt and Larger Scotland
        • Ten summers fade
        • The Rutherfoord letters
      • Mossgrove
        • Arborglyphs
        • Diary of a house
        • FAMILY films
        • Hale Bopp
        • He cannot unlearn the feeling
        • MERRYTHOUGHT
        • Mossgrove garden
        • Our cats
        • Our graffiti bench
        • The Medicine is in Aberdeen
        • The son of a Bank Manager
        • This is not yesterday
        • Tillybin
          • VANDAL
        • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
        • We follow them, as they are us
      • Photographs of Bridge of Allan
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Sheriffmuir
      • Shops, buildings and houses
        • 105 Henderson Street
        • Fernfield
        • John Cullens
        • Museum Hall
        • Music Hall
          • Mrs Hamilton
          • Professor Ewart
          • Professor Whitworth
        • Our first village shop
        • SPA CLEAN [ZERO WASTE]
        • St Ann’s
        • The Cleopatra needle
        • The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
        • The Well House, Bridge of Allan
      • The Ochils
        • Ashintrool
        • Hercules
        • in a SERIES II Land Rover
        • Jerah
      • Village doctors
        • Dr Alexander Wilkie Paterson
        • Dr Andrew S. Biggart
        • Dr Balbirnie
        • Dr Eric Dow
        • Dr John Hosack Fraser
        • Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord
        • Dr Mary Baird Hannah
        • Dr William Eagleson Gordon
        • Dr William Haldane
        • Dr William Halliday Welsh
      • Villagers [old and new]
        • A poet as well as a gardener
        • Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s
        • Finn Russell
        • Hector Dove
        • Holed out in ONE!
        • John McCaig
        • Old Village Worthies
        • Remembering Ian and Malcolm
        • Rev Charles Rogers
        • The Owl Man
        • The Tufty Club
        • Waller Hugh Paton
    • Dunblane
      • Andy Murray
      • Dunblane Cathedral reopens
    • Folk worth talking about
      • “Dr Frederick Adair”
      • ‘Big Kate’
      • ‘Black’ John Skirving
      • ‘Bob Dragon’
      • ‘Dr William Brodum”
      • ‘Whistling Willie,’ the LION MAN
      • A Big Burd
      • A Railway-Porter Astronomer
      • Agnes Mary
      • Alexander Ormiston Curle
      • Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA
      • Allison
      • Aloysius
      • Andrew Wilson
      • Angus John Campbell
      • Ann Shaw
      • Anne Grant of Laggan
      • Annie Graham Baird
      • Arthur
      • Aubrey Beardsley
      • Betty Mouat
      • Burrish Lyons
      • C. P. Snow
      • Captain Alexander Morrison
      • Captain Michael Slater
      • Captain Peter Gordon
      • Captain Phillips
      • Carol Colburn Grigor
      • Caroline Stuart Clarke
      • Charlotte Skinner
      • Clive Wright
      • Colin McWilliam
      • CYNICUS
      • Dandie Dinmont
      • Dani Garavelli
      • David Bowie
      • Davina Gordon
      • Diana Rigg
      • Doddie Weir
      • Dr John Stuart
      • Dr Pat Beausang
      • Dr Quackleben
      • Drue Heinz
      • Elijah Wood
      • Elizabeth and Ada
      • Ella Rae
      • Emma Raducanu
      • Ena Scott
      • Eric Redmond
      • Esmé Gordon
      • Felix Feneon
      • Florence Taylor
      • Francis Moncrieff
      • Fynes Moryson
      • Geoffrey Jellicoe
      • Gregory’s girl
      • Gunnar Jungner
      • Hannah Ann Stirling
      • Hector Dove
      • Henrietta
      • Ian Collins
      • Ivor Gurney
      • J. J. R. Macleod
      • James Ferguson
      • James Maxwell Glover Wilson
      • James Muir
      • James Woodburn Dunlop
      • Jane Creighton
      • Janet B Wood
      • Jenny Nettles
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Byrne
      • John Glen Parker
      • John Mackenzie Bacon
      • John Marshall Scott
      • John Ramsay of Ochtertyre
      • John Wilson
      • Johnston Shearer
      • Joseph Gordon
      • Kenneth Kuanda
      • Lord Esher
      • Margaret Mary Risk
      • Mary Melvill
      • Mary Wollstonecraft
      • Miss Christina Gib
      • Mr Perpetual Motion
      • MRS H B B Paull
      • Mrs Picken
      • My Great Uncle Peter
      • Nancy Prentice
      • Octavius Morgan
      • Oswald Bates
      • Patrick Geddes
      • Peter Pan
      • Professor Cairo
      • Prophet Peden
      • PUDDIN’
      • Rashiebog
      • REDCAR
      • Rev. I. M. Jolly
      • Robert Atkinson
      • Robert Hutchison
      • Saad F Ghalib
      • Sally Scott
      • Scipio
      • Shane Mac Thomáis
      • Sian Fiona Williams
      • Simon Sutherland
      • Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster
      • Snibs
      • Sophia Jex-Blake
      • Tam Dalyell
      • The Buchanites
      • The Lass o’ the Lecht
      • The Lighthouse Georgesons
      • The Odd Dr Todd
      • The Red Lady
      • The Wizard of the North
      • Thomas Hastie Bryce
      • William Borthwick
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Hay Leith Tester
      • Winifred Roberts
    • Ruins
      • A modern ruin
      • Aberdeen
        • 142 King Street, Aberdeen
        • Royal Cornhill Hospital
      • Aberdeenshire
        • 20 Main Street, Buckpool
        • Auchtavan
        • Bridgealehouse
        • Brodie’s cairn
        • Brucklay castle
        • Castle Newe
        • Clinterty
        • Croy House
        • East Lodge, Aberlour House
        • Glen Girnoc
          • Bovaglie
          • Loinveg
          • The Camlet
        • Glencowie, Strathdon
        • Kingseat Hospital
        • Knowsie House
        • Largue, Glenkindie
        • Lessendrum House
        • Nether Buckie: covered water reservoir
        • Pennan farm
        • Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
        • South Milton Cottage
        • the Cabrach
          • Auchmair
          • Bank
          • Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach
          • Buck, Cabrach
          • Cabrach Shooting Lodge
          • Gauch
          • Glenfiddich Shooting Lodge
          • Largue, Cabrach
          • Powneed, Cabrach
          • Tombain, Cabrach
          • Upper Cabrach School
        • The Temple of Polmona [or fame]
        • Thornbush, Gourdon
        • Tollafraick, Glenkindie
        • Whitehaugh Mausoleum
      • Angus
        • Aldbar castle
        • Aldbar Chapel
        • Fishtown of Usan
        • Fraser Mausoleum and Mortuary Chapel
        • Kincaldrum House
        • Knowegreens Inn
        • Lindertis
        • Maison Dieu, Brechin
        • Maulesden
        • Meigle steading
        • Panmure House
        • Rossie castle
        • Strathella
        • Torwood Cottage
      • Argyllshire
        • Badnaiska, Loch Awe
        • Barbreck Mausoleum and Folly
        • Bathwell, Rosneath
        • Dalmally Tabernacle
        • Glen Fruin Schoolhouse
        • Kilneuair Chapel
        • Oban Hydropathic
        • Rosneath Castle
        • The Clock Lodge
        • Turnalt
        • W A T C H M A N
      • Ayrshire
        • ANGEL Inn
        • Auchinleck Summerhouse
        • Caldwell House
        • Catrine House
        • Cleikum Inn
        • Craigends House
        • Dalquharron
        • Fullarton’s Folly
        • Glenure [Glenover]
        • Greenock Tempietto
        • High Dalblair
        • Oswald’s Temple
        • The Dutch Gable House
        • The Macrae Monument
        • The Viking Cinema
        • Whigham Inn
      • Bardrill farm
      • Clackmannanshire
        • Alva Ice House
        • Cherryton Brick Works
        • Hartshaw Tower
        • Sheardale House
        • The Garlet
        • Tullibody House
      • Dumfriesshire
        • Barnbarroch
        • Carnsalloch
        • Cormilligan
        • Gelston castle
        • Kenmure castle
        • The H E R M I T A G E [Friars’ Carse]
      • Dunbartonshire
        • Dunglass Castle and Bell’s Memorial
        • The Friends of Truth burial ground
        • Woodbank House, Balloch
      • Dundee
      • Edinburgh
        • Allan Ramsay’s House
        • Cammo House and Estate
        • Dryden, Bilston Glen
        • Edinburgh’s Orphan Hospital
        • Edmonstone house and park
        • Falcon Hall
        • Gilmerton House
        • Hawkhill Villa
        • Patriothall Laundry
        • PIPE Lane
        • Rockville, Edinburgh
        • Shakespeare Square
        • St Leonard’s
        • The Drummond Scrolls
      • England
        • Blackborough House
      • Fife
        • Abdie Curling House
        • Balyarrow
        • Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay
        • Castlehill Colliery
        • Corston Mill
        • Craighall castle
        • Crawford Priory
        • Dunbog House
        • Kilmaron castle
        • Largo House
        • Lucky Scaup
        • Siberia
        • St Fort, Newport, Fife
        • The Binn
        • The Temple of Decision
        • Thornton Fever Hospital
      • Forth Valley
        • Alloa Inch
        • Avondale House
        • Bandeath armaments depot
        • Bannockburn House
        • Carnock House
        • Carron House
        • Club’s Tomb
        • Cowiehall
        • Dunmore House
        • Glenhove tomb
        • Jawhills
        • Kennetpans
        • Lathallan House
        • Lochgreen
        • Orchardhead, Bothkennar
        • Scotland’s Close, Bo’ness
        • Stockiemuir Anti-Aircraft Battery
        • Tamrawer
      • Glasgow
        • Balmoral Crescent
        • Dreghorn Mansion, Glasgow
        • Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium
        • Garngad House
        • Glasgow Green Station
        • Petershill
        • SINGER Factory, Clydebank
        • Walkinshaw House
      • Highlands
        • An Dachaidh
        • Dalnawillan Lodge
        • Helen’s Well
        • Mains of Ulbster
        • Poltalloch
        • Vallay
      • Invernesshire
        • Allt Catanach
        • Badnambiast
        • Ballachroan
        • Blaragie
        • Easter Limekilns
        • Glenbanchor
        • Heatherbell
        • Moy House
        • Ruichlachrie
        • Sronphadruig Lodge
      • Lanarkshire
        • Boathouse, Blantyre
        • Carmichael House
        • Carnbroe
        • Carstairs Mausoleum
        • Douglas Support
        • Dykehead, Strathaven
        • Eastend, Carmichael
        • Gilbertfield castle
        • Keeper’s House for Hamilton Mausoleum
        • Rawyards Cotton Mill
        • Shark’s Mouth, Coatbridge
        • Smyllum Park
      • Lochery
      • Lochrosque
      • Lothian
        • Amisfield, Haddington
        • Gosford Mausoleum
        • Hatton estate
        • Mavisbank
          • Mavisbank (as Clerk’s “villa”)
          • Mavisbank (maps and plans)
          • Mavisbank (newspaper cuttings)
          • Mavisbank (the Asylum years)
          • Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
          • Mavisbank: Talk to the Civic Trust Conference
        • Roseberry steading
        • Roslin Curling Pond
        • STOBS Gunpowder Mills
      • Perth
        • Custom House, Bridgend, Perth
      • Perthshire
        • Apollo’s Temple
        • Argaty House
        • Arnhall castle
        • Arnmore House
        • Auchloy
        • Auld Fossoway
        • Balboughty Dairy
        • Bardrill
        • Bishopsfauld
        • Blackford Farms Ltd
        • Boreland Cottage
        • Boreland Farmhouse
        • Braes of Doune
        • Broadley
        • Buttergask
        • Charlotte’s Cave
        • Craigmill cottage, Inverpeffray
        • Dillot
        • Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie
        • Dunalastair
        • Duncrub house
        • Dupplin West Lodge
        • Eilean nam Faoileag Folly, Loch Rannoch
        • Evelick castle
        • Feddal castle
        • Gascon Hall
        • Glendevon castle
        • Glenside
        • Glentulchan
        • Haldrick
        • Holmehill House
        • House of Nairne
        • Inchbrakie
        • Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’
        • Inverpeffary castle and library
        • Keirwoodhead
        • Kilmadock old churchyard
        • Knowehead, Blackford
        • Lairhill
        • Lanrick castle (demolished)
        • Little Tullybelton
        • Lynedoch
        • Maidsmill
        • Millearne
        • Muir o’Gill
        • Newton of Condie
        • Pitmiddle village
        • Rosecraig, Strathbraan
        • Side of Balhaldie
        • Straid
        • Stronhavie
        • Stronvar House
        • The Esher-Stank mausoleum
        • The Mercer Obelisk
        • Topfauld farm
        • Tullybeagles Lodge
        • Upper Quoigs
        • West Dron Hill Farm
        • Wester Bow
        • Wester Clow
        • Whaick
        • Williamsfield cottage
      • Renfrewshire
        • Balrossie
      • Skye
        • Gesto House, Skye
        • Kingsborough, Skye
        • Totarder
      • Stirling
        • Borrowmeadow Farm
        • Carim Lodge
        • Haugh of West Grange
        • Heathershot
        • Keir Home Farm
        • MARIEVILLE
        • Polmaise castle
        • Shielbrae
        • Steuartfield
        • Wanderwang
      • The Borders
        • Ellemhaugh
        • Haughhead
        • Hundy Mundy
        • Huntershall Inn, Dun Law
        • Lion Gate, West Lodges, Ladykirk House
        • Roxburgh House, Kelso
      • West Lothian
        • Almond or Haining castle
        • Auchengray House
        • Balbardie
        • Duntarvie castle
        • Grovemount
        • Kipps
        • Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar
        • Leadloch farm
        • Polkemmet Mausoleum
        • The REGAL Cinema
        • Waterloo Tower
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