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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 3, 2022October 3, 2022

Faery Bridge

When I was a child my Granny used to take me to the Dunblane war memorial by the Allan Water which we crossed by the Faery Bridge. This reinforced concrete … Continue reading Faery Bridge

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 11.11, 1911, 2 cultures, A Far Cry from Kensington, A life revisited, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Allan Water, Antiquary, Armand Considère, Armistice day, Balhaddie, Balhaddie House, Baudolino, Big Ted, Binglety Banglety Bumpety, Bonny Prince Charlie, Bookcase, bridge, Bridge builders, Bridge of Allan, bridges, calcul des ponts en arc et des ponts suspendus, concrete, Considère and partners, Constance Gibson, Distance and Memory, Dunblane, Engineer, Evelyn Waugh, faery bridge, Ferro-bridge, ferro-concrete, George Saunders, God bless our soldiers, Hole Ousia, innovator, letter opener, Major Wilfrid Gibson, Margaret Mary Scott, Mossgrove, Muriel Spark, Paris, Peter Davidson, Peter Scott-Gordon, pioneer, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, reinforced cement and concrete, Road Surveyor, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Umberto Eco, West Perthshire, Wharry Glen, Wilfrid Lawson Gibson, work suspended, WWI

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 15, 2021July 15, 2021

The Laundry Problem

This film is about Patriothall Laundry in Eyre Terrace, Edinburgh. Built in 1904 it was recently demolished. Please note: some of the images used are of Craigmillar Laundry and the … Continue reading The Laundry Problem

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1904, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Antiquary, Baudolino, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Castlebank Laundry, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Craigmillar Laundry, David Peters, Deborah Levy, Do not say we have nothing, Edinburgh, Eyre Terrace, Gabriel García Márquez, garden, gardener, George Saunders, Girdwood, Glasgow, Half of a yellow sun, Hole Ousia, Iron gate sensitivity, IS WASHDAY WORTHWHILE?, John Lanchester, King George IV Park, lion rampant, Lost Edinburgh: The Royal Patent Gymnasium, Modern Athenians, Muriel Spark, Nooks and Crannies, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Pale Fire, Patrick Neil, Patriothall, Patriothall Laundry, patriotic, Penelope Fitzgerald, rebel antiquary, Rose, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Patent Gymnasium, Scotland Street, Scotland Street Station, Scotland Street tunnel, Silvermills, Social maverick, Spurtle, steam laundry, Stockbridge, The Antiquary, The cost of living, the gate of Angels, the laundry problem, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal Patent Gymnasium, the scandal of the century, The wall, thistle, Umberto Eco, Vladimir Nabokov

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

MERRYTHOUGHT

The day that Andrew was born I bought him a MERRYTHOUGHT teddy bear. We named this teddy ‘HALE BOPP’ as this comet was bright in the night sky as our … Continue reading MERRYTHOUGHT

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2020, A Far Cry from Kensington, A friendship in letters, A S Byatt, Aberdeen, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Beat the drum fly the night catch a star, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, Comet, Comet Hale–Bopp, comet seekers, Correction Wynd, Do not say we have nothing, Evelyn Waugh, Good Fortune, Great British Bake Off, Hale Bopp, high intrinsic brightness, Hilary Mantel, Hole Ousia, J M Barrie, Lanny, Mantel Pieces, Max Porter, MERRYTHOUGHT, Mossgrove, Muriel Spark, new views of Comets, Omphalos, Omphalos films, P J Harvey, Peter John Gordon, Peter Sawkins, Possession: A Romance, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, teddy, teddy bear, The Antiquary, The Comet Seekers, The Rebel Antiquary, This is not yesterday, Tillybin, Toy Bazzar, William Carlos Williams

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020June 12, 2022

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon 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wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh, [in its ending] Scotland Street Station

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