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By Hole Ousia Posted on June 8, 2022

a dog named Spot

Our four-legged companions: how dear, how very dear. The fields of Bow: To play this film please click here or on the image above. Music credits: [1] Come wander with … Continue reading a dog named Spot

Categories: Philosophy, Poems, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1789, A room with a view, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, abandoned, Antiquary, Argaty, Baudolino, Billy had liked Spot, Billy Pilgrim, Bonnie Beecher, Braes of Doune, but he died, Colin Gow, Come wander with me, companions, companionship, Distant Sky, Dunblane, Duncan Cameron, E M Forster, fallen overhead power lines, farm, FCWGA, field trials, Forth and Clyde Working Gundog Association, four-legged, George Saunders, gundog trials, Hole Ousia, It was a beautiful story, John Cameron, John Gordon, Kilbryde, Kurt Vonnegut, Live in Copenhagen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Omphalos, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Slaughterhouse-five, so it goes, Social maverick, Spot had liked him, Stewart Dewar Cameron, The Antiquary, The Bows, The fields of Bow, The imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space, The Rebel Antiquary, There used to be a dog named Spot, Umberto Eco, Vladimir Nabokov, Wester Bow

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 13, 2022May 13, 2022

a year ago

A year ago I had a short stay in Aberdeenshire. It felt like returning home. May 2021: I had a short break in Aberdeenshire staying in the Aberdeen Arms, Tarland … Continue reading a year ago

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 10th Earl of Crawford, 2.5, 3000 feet, 3000 ft, 44 Midstocket Road, a gate, A Man Unknown, a right-of-way dispute, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, A Thousand chances, a tomb with a view, A vast telescope will create a movie of the universe, a year ago, abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Arms, Aberdeen Arms Hotel, Aberdeenshire, Aboyne, Acanthus, acanthus leaf, acanthus leaves, Admiral Fallow, Alexander Robb, an electric razor: donated, Angus, Antionetta, Antiquary, ARCADIA, as that swift eternity ended, astra castra numen lumen munimen, Ballintomb, Belle and Sebastian, Beyond the Strath, Blackford Observatory, bleet, bleeting, body found on Lecht, Body snatchers, body snatching, Braid Hill Observatory, Bridge of Allan, Cairngorms, Charles 10th Marquis of Huntly, Charles Brand Ltd, Charles Gordon, Charles Soutar, Chasing the sun, Circus Delrium, Class of 1990, climber, climbing, collapse of the Mortlich Monument, comet seekers, commercial forestry, contexto, Corgarff, Deborah Levy, Demolished, Desecration of the Earl of Crawford's tomb, Dexter Britain, dissection. Aberdeen Medical School, Distant Skies, Distant Sky, Doric, doric pillars, Dr Peter Gordon, Drain, Duguid, Dunecht, Dunecht body snatching, Dunecht House, Dunecht observatory, Dunecht Outrage Recalled, Dux, Earl of Crawford, Earl of Crawford's Body stolen, electric razor, fascination of absence, film, Films about ruins, Fort, gateway, General Scipio, George Saunders, Gibbie McIntosh, Gilber Farie, Glenkindie, gnarled oaks, Hale Bopp, Helen Jane Stewart Duguid, Hilary Mantel, Hole Ousia, house painter, Hugh Munro, Huntly, I am mindful of human weakness, Iron cross, James Dyas Davidson, James Ross, John Glennie, Julian Barnes, ladder, lambs, Latin, lecht, Lecht body found, Lindertis, Lindsay, Lindsay crest, Locherie, Lochery, Lochrie, Logie Coldstone, Lord Lindsay, Mantel Pieces, Margaret Cruickshank, Marks & Spencers, Medical Student, Monument, Mortlich Hill, Mortlich Monument, Mortlich obelisk, mountain, mountains, Mrs Scotland, Munro's, Munro-bagging, Mutual Improvement Society, Nabob, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, November 1912, oblelisk, Observatory, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, On the level, Oor big braw cosmos, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Peer's body that was stolen, Peter Gordon, Peter Ross, poacher, poem, Poem six, Poems, poet, poetry, portico, Punic War, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Rachel's scarf, ransom, Rat catcher, Real Estate, Rebecca Pidgeon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, ruins, Sandwiches, Scipio, Scotland, Scotland's peaks named after him, Sculpture, sheep, sheep amongst the ruins, shepherd, Sir Hugh Munro, skiing, sleepwalking, Snooker, snow storm, Social maverick, Social subjects, South Milton, South Milton cottage, Spanish Oaks, St Nicholas Street, Strathdon, Student Union, Tarland, telescope, The Antiquary, The Atmosphere, The Lass o' the Lecht, The Rebel Antiquary, The stars my camp, The stars my Camp [9111212], Thousand Chances, Tillybin, time passes listen, to the hills, Tollafraick, universe, Unknown man, ut per vias aeris, vaga ferus avis, vagrant, vermin killer, walking, We live between the microscope and the telescope, whaup, whaups, woodland

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 6, 2022April 7, 2022

The fields of Bow

Our four-legged companions: how dear, how very dear. The fields of Bow: To play this film please click here or on the image above. Music credits: [1] Come wander with … Continue reading The fields of Bow

Categories: Ageing, Bridge of Allan, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1789, A room with a view, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, abandoned, Antiquary, Argaty, Baudolino, Bonnie Beecher, Braes of Doune, Colin Gow, Come wander with me, companions, companionship, Distant Sky, Dunblane, Duncan Cameron, E M Forster, fallen overhead power lines, farm, FCWGA, field trials, Forth and Clyde Working Gundog Association, four-legged, George Saunders, gundog trials, Hole Ousia, It was a beautiful story, John Cameron, John Gordon, Kilbryde, Live in Copenhagen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Omphalos, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Social maverick, Stewart Dewar Cameron, The Antiquary, The Bows, The fields of Bow, The imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space, The Rebel Antiquary, Umberto Eco, Vladimir Nabokov, Wester Bow

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 18, 2022March 7, 2022

There was no road either to or from

I recently made a film about a forgotten Perthshire village. It has been said that ‘there was no road either to or from this village’ [to play this short film … Continue reading There was no road either to or from

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: abandoned, All that running, Antiquary, Bithergiese, Blackford, Buttergask, Deborah Levy, Dunblane Traditions, Edmund de Waal, Fall, farm, George Saunders, Hole Ousia, illicit smuggling, John Monteath, Julian Barnes, Kathleen Jamie, Lisa Hannigan, lost village, murder, My Body is a cage, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gabriel, rebel antiquary, Robin Hyde, ruin, Rupi Kaur, Sheriffmuir, Social maverick, spectators of absence, Susanna Clarke, The Antiquary, The Godwits fly, The Muckle wife o'Bithergirse, The Rebel Antiquary, The Wheel Demo, There was no road either to or from, Topfauld, village, we all become spectators of absence

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