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By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

The House of Lessendrum [what love means]

Wednesday 21st September 2022: Sian joined me in visiting what remains of Lessendrum House: we approached by barbed wire and nettles. What love means: To play this film please click … Continue reading The House of Lessendrum [what love means]

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2022, Aberdeenshire, Antiquary, barbed wire, Big Ted, destroyed by fire, Durn House, gateway, Hill 70, Hole Ousia, killed in action, left in ruins, nettles, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter and Sian, rebel antiquary, Richard hawley, Robin Hyde, ruin, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Godwits fly, The House of Lessendrum, The Rebel Antiquary, They fell for us, Walter Bisset, Walter F Elrington Bisset, war, what love means, WWI

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

ASTROV: scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties

This film is an ‘attack’ on biomedical determinism. To play this film please click here. This film voices others, including: Roy Porter Sylvia Plath Matt Haig Ian Hamilton Finlay Anthony … Continue reading ASTROV: scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties

Categories: Classification of mental illness, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, Omphalos films, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, Two culturesTags: 2 cultures, Albert Camus, Ali Smith, Andrew Greig, Anthony Doerr, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, biomedical determinism, C.P. Snow, Candia McWilliams, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, Dr Peter J Gordon, Evelyn Waugh, F R leavis, first do no harm, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabriel García Márquez, gentle gardener, Gustave Flaubert, hippocratic oath, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, It is by living we learn, Ivan Illich, James Davies, John Macmurray, Julian Barnes, Mary Midgley, Matt Haig, medical humanities, My formal instruction of resignation as a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, nullius in verba, Omphalos, Omphalos films, over-medicalisation, Owen Jones, Patrick Geddes, Petter J, primum non nocere, Realistic Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, Roy Porter, scholarly gardener remembered, scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties, Scott Walker, Scott Walker Revisited, Social maverick, Sylvia Plath, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, This film voices others, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Too much Medicine, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Vivendo Discimus

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

Heatherbell revisited

Heatherbell is to be found on the road north from Grantown On-Spey (A939) a little beyond Lochindorb. I first visited it 2 years ago. This summer, with Sian and Big … Continue reading Heatherbell revisited

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A939, abandoned, Antiquary, BBC Live Lounge, Big Ted, croft, Dava, Don Quixote, Durn House, Goldfrapp, Grantown on Spey, Hale Bopp, Heatherbell, heatherbell revisited, Hole Ousia, I emerge now carrying all my years on my back, It's Not over yet, Klaxons, Lochindorb, nowhere, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, Portsoy, rebel antiquary, remanded again, ruin, ruins, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the view from nowhere, we go from nowhere to nowhere deliberately

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022

‘SIBERIA is home to’

NOTE: the blackboard advert was displayed outside a commercial outlet in Aberdeen. It was the reverse side of this. The NEON YELLOW PRESERVATION SOCIETY is a fictional society.

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