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Dandie Dinmont
Declaration of interests
Deeside Tales: The stories of a small glen
Family films
Gauch
Glen Girnoc: to be humbled.
Hale Bopp
Hercules
Hole Ousia
Hole Ousia
Important note about my films
Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
On Esca’s Flow’ry Bank: Mavisbank
Medical publications
Messages about my retirement from the profession of Medicine
Mossgrove
Omphatyp’
One word poems
Our cats
Peter’s poems
Peter’s ruinous films
Publications in the “Leopard”
Sapere Aude
Scottish women writers
Stronmilchan
Testimonials for Dr P J Gordon
The Ageing Stone
The anatomy of emotion
The blue flower
The Royal Colleges and Sunshine Legislation
The son of a Bank Manager
The speaking hedge
This is not yesterday
Tillybin
Timely diagnosis of dementia
Two cultures
Ursine familiars
We follow them, as they are us
being and becoming
Academic reductionisms
Ariel
Cell Mates
Ethics
Medical “truants”
Multifarious learners
A fortunate man
Dr Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Dr Arthur J. Brock
Dr Arthur Mitchell
Dr Daniel Reid Rankin
Dr Evgeny Legedin
Dr Gavin Francis
Dr James Sheridan Knowles
Dr Leon Eisenberg
Dr Samuel Brown (1817 – 1856)
Edmund de Waal
Femi Oyebode
George Washington Wilson
James Clerk Maxwell
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
Shibley Rahman
Sir Harry Burns
Theodore Dalrymple
Thomas Browne
William Lewson Burrowes
One way of measuring a tree
Philosophers
Albert Camus
Andrew Greig
Dr John Flaxman
Dugald Stewart
John Macmurray
John Stuart Mill
Mary Midgley
Poets
Alexander laing
Caledonian Antisyzygy
Carol Ann Duffy
Daniel Abse
Edwin Morgan
Iain Banks
Ian Crichton Smith
James M Slimmon
John Betjeman
Kathleen Jamie
La Teste
Leonard Cohen
Liz Lochhead
Norman MacCaig
Patrick Deeley
Paul Muldoon
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
Political pieces
Raymond Tallis
Sapere Aude
A bit of a prat
Binglety, Banglety, Bumpety
Caroline Phillips
Chrys Muirhead
Claire Fox
Dr Donald Brownlie
Dr Margaret McCartney
Ella Rae
Ethics rather than rules
Fara McAfee
Gawaine Baillie
Gerald
Hale-Bopp
Humpty Dumpty
I mistook myself for a scientific label
Jessie Lennox (a Nightingale)
John Aubrey
King Kong
Margaret Maberley Gordon
O. G. S. Crawford
Owen Jones
Reducing the world to pure logic
Richard Holloway
Richard Taylor
Roy Porter
Stanley Murray
Tam o’Shanter
The Cabrach
The remains of the day
The shock of the fall
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
Vinegar Girl
Anthony Doerr
Candia McWilliam
Cesare Pavese
Charlotte Peacock
David Szalay
Deborah Levy
E M Forster
Emily Fridlund
Ernest Hemingway
Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall
Fiona Mozley
Ford Madox Ford
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gabriel García Marquez
Gavin Francis
George Orwell
George Saunders
Hanya Yanighara
Howard Jacobson
Iris Murdoch
J. D. Salinger
Janice Galloway
Jessie Burton
John Buchan
John Lanchester
John Steinbeck
Julian Barnes
Kathleen Jamie
Lampedusa
Laurie Lee
Madeleine Thien
Marcel Proust
Margaret Drabble
Matt Haig
Max Porter
Lanny
Mohsin Hamid
Mukul Kesavan
Muriel Spark
Nan Shepherd
Oscar Wilde
Otessa Moshfegh
Penelope Fitzgerald
Richard Flanagan
Richard Holmes
Richard Yates
Roald Dahl
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Seethaler
Rudyard Kipling
Sara Baume
Sylvia Plath
Thomas Mann
Virginia Woolf
Vladimir Nabakov
Will Cohu
William Boyd
Yann Martel
in the world
A Sunshine Act for Scotland
‘Listen, let the people petition and be heard’
Bring me a sunshine act: five minutes with . . . Peter Gordon
Key Opinion Leaders
Polypropylene Mesh Implants
Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
“FULLY BOOKED”
“Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”
“Villains and Demonisers”
1 in 7
A letter in the Times
Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”
Antidepressant prescribing and informed consent
Language Matters: indeed it does
MINCE
Paroxetine tablets [Film-Coated]
PRAM
Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
Science Media Centre
Scottish Government: Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland
Special partnerships
Words and numbers should be used with equal care
The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
‘We will be making a prognosis not a diagnosis’
A timeline
Back in the driving seat: Industry
Declarations
Association of British Neurologists: Dr Richard Perry
Chair of Neuroradiology (University of Edinburgh): Professor Adam Waldman
Director of the Dementia Research Centre (UCL): Professor Nick Fox
Dr Jeremy Isaacs
EPAD co-coordinator: Professor Craig Ritchie
National Clinical Director for Dementia: Professor Alistair Burns
NIHR National Director for Dementia Research: Professor Martin Rossor
Professor Iracema Leroi
Professor John O’Brien
Professor of Biological Psychiatry (University of Southampton) – Professor Clive Holmes
Professor of Translational Neuroscience: Sir Simon Lovestone
Professor Sube Banerjee
Hide and Seek: conflicts of interest
ICJME declarations for the ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
Issues not considered in the ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
Key opinion leaders and Industry: Snakes, ladders and Monopoly
Mild Cognitive Impairment ‘faces extinction’
Architecture
‘The Story of Drummond Place’
Abbotsford
Auchinleck House
Bute House
Cabrach Shooting Lodge
Charles Brand Ltd
Dalhousie Memorial Arch
Drummond Place, Edinburgh
Glasgow Necropolis
Hermits and Termits
Hospitalfield House
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
Robert Adam
Scottish architectural follies
SeaPark
Temple of the Muses
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
Forth Road Bridge
Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
The Glenfinnan Viaduct
D.L.R.O.W
The mild cigar
Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
Ena Scott
Garrel Glen
Glasgow Memory Clinic
Kilrymont Road
landscapes (time held green)
‘Hill of the Resurrection’
Carsebreck
Cliff House
Dunbuy
Duncryne
Eilean Fhianain
Garden Archaeology
Gardeners
‘Gardener Found Insane’
Boghead, Bathgate
Charles Webster
Glassingall Gardener
Glentulchan gardener
James Ironside
John Wright Paton
Ninian Niven
No.1 Shrub Place
No.1 Shrub Place
OLDEST GARDENER
Peter Gordon, gardener
Peter Rankin, Glen Creran
Peter Thomson
Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’
R E E K I A N A
Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens
Robert Rust
Scotland’s Silver Glen
The auld gardener
The Sisters’ Garden
Under Gardener [D U N I R A]
Wellington Dauncey
William Rutherford
Gauch
Glen Girnoc
Abergeldie castle
Bovaglie
Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)
The Bovaglie manuscript
Loinveg
The Camlet
Glenbardy
Hannah Ann Stirling
Henrietta’s grave
Inchcolm island
Jock’s Road
Kilmadock churchyard
Leckie Glen
Linga Isle
Little Sparta
Lochnagar
Mossgrove
Orchards
Peter Davidson
St Kilda
Stigliano, Tuscany, Italy
The Devil’s Pulpit
The Dragon’s Hole
The Fortingall Yew
The Hill
The John Muir Way
The living mountain
The Lost Garden of Dunira
The suicide graves
Tillybin
Wanzie
Mortar and Pestles
Mrs Picken
Necessity Brae
Psychiatrists
Dr David Foreman
Dr Mark Bolstridge
Dr Mark Swinton
Dr Samei Huda
President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Prof Rob Howard
Response from the General Medical Council
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
William Slater
The bicycle tree
The Jam factory
Waverley
where time passes (listen)
Bridge of Allan
‘A Lecropt Girl’
‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
105 Henderson Street
Ashintrool
Beware the Fly!
Borrowmeadow Farm
Bridge of Allan Highland Games
Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s
Chemists and Apothecaries
Charles Neil Rutherfoord
Gilbert Farie
Oswald Robertson
Craig Mair
Drumdruills
Rab Scott
Fernfield
Finn Russell
Glimpses of Local History
Hercules
Holed out in ONE!
Jerah
John Cullens
John McCaig
Keir Estate, Stirling
Keirfield
David Rutherfoord
Landmarks of Bridge of Allan
Lecropt and Larger Scotland
Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
Millad
Miss Jessie lennox
Museum Hall
Old Village Worthies
Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
Our first village shop
Our village in old photographs and writings
Pictures of Bridge of Allan
Rev Charles Rogers
Robert Louis Stevenson
St Ann’s
Stevenson’s cave
The Cleopatra needle
The Fountain of Nineveh
The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
The Rutherfoord family: Ten summers fade
The Rutherford letters
The Tufty Club
The Well House, Bridge of Allan
The Wharrie Glen
The Wrights of Loss
Village doctors
Dr A. S. Biggart
Dr Alexander Paterson
Dr Balbirnie
Dr Eric Dow
Dr John Hossack Fraser
Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord
Dr Mary Baird Hannah
Dr William Haldane
Dr William Halliday Welsh
Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
Folk worth talking about
“Dr Frederick Adair”
‘Bob Dragon’
Albert Bayne, DCM
Alexander Ormiston Curle
Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA
Aloysius
Andy Murray
Angus John Campbell
Annie Graham Baird
Arthur
Betty Mouat
C. P. Snow
Captain Alexander Morrison
Captain Phillips
Clive Wright
David Bowie
David Harrowes
Davina Gordon
Dr Pat Beausang
Dr Quackleben
Drue Heinz
Elijah Wood
Ella Rae
Eric Redmond
Felix Feneon
Finn Russell
Fittie’s Tragic Harbourmaster
Fynes Moryson
Geoffrey Jellicoe
Scratches
Gregory’s girl
Ian Collins
J. J. R. Macleod
James Woodburn Dunlop
Janet B Wood
John Glen Parker
John Marshall Scott
Johnston Shearer
Joseph Gordon
Lord Esher
Mary Wollstonecraft
Miss Christina Gib
My Great Uncle Peter
Nancy Prentice
Neil Findlay
Oswald Bates
Patrick Geddes
Patrick Matthew
Peter Pan
Prophet Peden
PUDDIN’
Rashiebog
Rev Charles Rogers
Rev. I. M. Jolly
Robert Hutchison
Robert Nicholl
Saad F Ghalib
Sally Scott
Sian
Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster
Snibs
Sophia Jex-Blake
Tam Dalyell
The Lighthouse Georgesons
The Odd Dr Todd
The Owl Man
The Wizard of the North
Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
William Hay Leith Tester
Gilbert Farie
Ruins
142 King Street, Aberdeen
20 Main Street, Buckpool
Abdie Curling House
Aldbar castle
Aldbar Chapel
Alloa Inch
Allt Catanach
Almond or Haining castle
Amisfield, Haddington
ANGEL Inn
Apollo’s Temple
Apollo’s Temple
Argaty House
Arnhall castle
Arnmore House
Auchengray House
Auchinleck Summerhouse
Auchmair
Auchtavan
Auld Fossoway
Avondale House
Badnaiska, Loch Awe
Balbardie
Balrossie
Balyarrow
Bandeath armaments depot
Bank, Cabrach
Bannockburn House
Barbreck Mausoleum and Folly
Barnbarroch
Bishopsfauld
Blackborough House
Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach
Boathouse, Blantyre
Bridgealehouse
Brodie’s cairn
Brucklay castle
Buck, Cabrach
Caldwell House
Cammo House and Estate
Carim Lodge
Carmichael House
Carmichael House
Carnock House
Carnsalloch
Carron House
Carstairs Mausoleum
Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay
Castle Newe
Castlehill Colliery
Catrine House
Charlotte’s Cave
Cherryton Brick Works
Cleikum Inn
Clinterty
Club’s Tomb
Corston Mill
Craigends House
Craighall castle
Craigmill cottage, Inverpeffray
Crawford Priory
Crawford Priory
Dalnawillan Lodge
Dalquharron
Dillot
Douglas Support
Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie
Dunalastair
Dunbog House
Duncrub house
Dunglass Castle and Bell’s Memorial
Dunmore House
Duntarvie castle
Dupplin West Lodge
Dykehead, Strathaven
East Lodge, Aberlour House
Eastend, Carmichael
Easter Limekilns
Edmonstone house and park
Eilean nam Faoileag Folly, Loch Rannoch
Ellemhaugh
Evelick castle
Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium
Falcon Hall
Feddal castle
Fishtown of Usan
Fraser Mausoleum and Mortuary Chapel
Fullarton’s Folly
Garngad House
Gelston castle
Gesto House, Skye
Gilbertfield castle
Glasgow Green Station
Glencowie, Strathdon
Glendevon castle
Glenfiddich Shooting Lodge
Glentulchan
Glenure [Glenover]
Gosford Mausoleum
Greenock Tempietto
Haldrick
Hartshaw Tower
Hatton estate
Hawkhill Villa
Heatherbell
Heathershot
Helen’s Well
Holmehill House
House of Nairne
Hundy Mundy
Huntershall Inn, Dun Law
Inchbrakie
Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’
Inverpeffary castle and library
Jawhills
Jawhills
Keeper’s House for Hamilton Mausoleum
Kenmure castle
Kennetpans
Kilmadock old churchyard
Kilmaron castle
Kilneuair Chapel
Kincaldrum House
Kingsborough, Skye
Kingseat Hospital
Kipps
Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar
Knowegreens Inn
Knowhead, Blackford
Knowsie House
Lanrick castle (demolished)
Largo House
Largue, Cabrach
Largue, Glenkindie
Lathallan House
Lion Gate, West Lodges, Ladykirk House
Little Tullybelton
Lochrosque
Lucky Scaup
Lynedoch
Mains of Ulbster
Maison Dieu, Brechin
MARIEVILLE
Maulesden
Meigle steading
Millearne
Muir o’Gill
Nether Buckie: covered water reservoir
Newton of Condie
Oban Hydropathic
Orchardhead, Bothkennar
Oswald’s Temple
Panmure House
Pennan farm
Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
Pitmiddle village
Polkemmet Mausoleum
Polmaise castle
Poltalloch
Powneed, Cabrach
Rockville, Edinburgh
Roseberry steading
Rosecraig, Strathbraan
Rossie castle
Royal Cornhill Hospital
Scotland’s Close, Bo’ness
Shark’s Mouth, Coatbridge
Siberia
Smyllum Park
St Fort, Newport, Fife
St Peter’s Seminary
Steuartfield
Stockiemuir Anti-Aircraft Battery
Straid
Stronhavie
Stronvar House
The Binn
The bridge to nowhere
The Clock Lodge
The Dutch Gable House
The Esher-Stank mausoleum
The Garlet
The H E R M I T A G E [Friars’ Carse]
The lost garden of Penicuik
The Macrae Monument
The Mavisbank Trust
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
The Mercer Obelisk
The Old Bridge of Livet
The Temple of Decision
Thornton Fever Hospital
Tollafraick, Glenkindie
Tombain, Cabrach
Torwood Cottage
Tullibody House
Tullybeagles Lodge
Turnalt
Upper Cabrach School
Upper Quoigs
W A T C H M A N
Walkinshaw House
Wanderwang
Waterloo Tower
West Dron Hill Farm
Whaick
Whitehaugh Mausoleum
Woodbank House, Balloch
The Ageing Stone
The Antiquary
The Great Tapestry of Scotland
The Wilkie’s of Errol
There was an insistent present tenseness
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