White Horse Inn
The days of the White Horse Inn, Perth, are numbered. This Inn was part of Perth before the first ordinance survey.
Category: Scotland
Hole Ousia is interested in Scotland today and Scotland past; Scotland’s countryside and Scotland’s architecture from noble families to the common ankle-high rickle-stane remains of most of us.
Balbardie
Designed by Robert Adam, Balbardie was described as his best classical house in Scotland, the grand manner in miniature. Balbardie had a life lived short: barely sixty years. Balbardie House … Continue reading Balbardie
A Georgian Gem
I am collecting material for a film on Hawkhill, Leith, Edinburgh. This Villa, designed by John Adam, was demolished in 1971.
20-1-20
I will be leaving the profession of Medicine on the 20th of January 2020. I have never had 20/20 vision and never will have! My eyesight is poor and I … Continue reading 20-1-20
MUSCLE
This is the Scotsman book review of MUSCLE. The review is most promising and MUSCLE is the next book that I am going to read. The reviewer, Stuart Kelly, concludes that … Continue reading MUSCLE
The world is beautiful
All material used in this short film, apart from archive footage of my children, was taken by Peter on a visit to Glasgow on Monday 9th December 2019. Music Credit: … Continue reading The world is beautiful
‘An artist devoted to challenging injustice’
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is currently showing an exhibition of the work of Paula Rego. I am hoping to go next week.
‘A dollop of Caledonian Antisyzygy’
This was how Alex Bell began his Opinion Piece in The Courier of the 5th December 2019. Caledonian Antisyzygy may be a term that is not much heard but I … Continue reading ‘A dollop of Caledonian Antisyzygy’
“Sold to one of Scotland’s wealthiest women”
In May of this year I visited an estate near Newport in Fife that had just been sold. I found the faux-Tudor-Italianate House to be dilapidated, and to my eyes, … Continue reading “Sold to one of Scotland’s wealthiest women”
‘Talk of possible snow’
The last time a UK General Election was held in Winter was in 1974. [please take no inference from this film as to how I may vote]
Lecture in progress
The ‘Lecture in Progress’ sign that features in this film was only illuminated whilst we, as medical students, waited outside the Anatomy Department of Marischal College, Aberdeen. Musical credits: … Continue reading Lecture in progress