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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 25, 2021March 26, 2021

21 Island Street

On the 4th September, at 21 Island Street, Galashiels, a gardener died. This was his garden: Today, the gardener’s home is an empty Bakers Shop. Why might you be interested … Continue reading 21 Island Street

Categories: gardens, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1874, 21 Island Street, A Dalgetty & sons, a gardener died, Abbotsford, an oak to commerate the batlle of waterloo, Antiquary, Bakers, Death of a retainer of Sir Walter Scott, Galashiels, garden, gardener, gardens, Gordon Wayness, Hole Ousia, Hope Scott, Island Street, Melrose, oak tree, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, River Tweed, Social maverick, The Abbotsford gardener, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Walter Scott, Waterloo, Why might you be interested in this long dead gardener of Island Street?

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

‘Every Inch a Scotchman’

I have made a number of films in relation to the Earl of Buchan:

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 11th Earl of Buchan, Abbotsford, Almondell, anecdote, antiquarian, Antiquary, Arthur's Seat, Astonomical Pillar, Book of Scottish Anecdote, Broxburn, buckle, buttons, C.P. Snow, David Stewart Erskine, Decline and Fall, Dryburgh, Earl of Buchan, Edinburgh, Evelyn Waugh, every inch a Scotchman, Flight of ideas, He predicted one of the rarest events in the solar system, High Street, Hole Ousia, is there anyone who isn't tangent?, jade, Jessie Burton, Kirkhill, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, psychopathology, rebel antiquary, River Tweed, Scotland, sketchbook, Social maverick, Tangent, Temple of the Muses, The Antiquary, The Muse, The Rebel Antiquary, Two Cultures, Walter Scott

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020March 29, 2021

For my mum and dad

These films about Edinburgh are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year after year, left an apple on her window-sill for me … 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, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, Abbotsford, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, 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, Carubber's Manse, Charlotte Square, Christopher Lloyd, Colinton, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, David Livingstone, dawdle to sniff the beauty of the world, designed for use in a rebellion, distressed furniture, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Samuel Brown, Dunira, Dunira's Lost garden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh half-marathon, Edinburgh marathon, Edinburgh Zoo, Falcon Hall, Films about Edinburgh, Fletcher Norton, Florence Nightingale, Follow Me, Francis Seymour Haden, Freedom to speak up, Full of Energy, gateways, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Gilmerton House, Hatton, Hawkhill, Hawkhill House, Henry Dundas, Hermits and Termits, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, I had a project as a tiny boy, Indy-Ref, It is by living we learn, James Clerk Maxwell, Jessie lennox, John Wilson, Joseph Gerrald, keepsake, Kipps, labour of omission, Left-behind gateway, Liberty, magically reached out, Mary Brooksbank, Maurice Margarot, Mavisbank, meet you at the statue, meet you at the statue in an hour, Methven Simpson, MLA distinction, Monument to the Political Martyrs', Morningside, Mrs Picken, Murrayfield, Murrayfield stadium, Napier Road, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], New Town, newspaper boy, Nick Cave, Nobel prize, Nor' loch, North Loch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, ORPHAN Hospital [ Site of], Partick Geddes, Past and present, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Patrick Geddes, PE1493, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Physic Garden, Pipe Lane, Pipe Lane Public Toilets, Platform 11, Playhouse Close, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Police Boxes, Political Martyrs, Prince Street, Princes Street Gardens, Prodrums, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Sibbald, Rockville, rugby, Scotland, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish Government, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish Parliament, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Square, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's House, St Andrew's Square, statue, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The friends of liberty, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, the texture of time, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, This plethora of detail, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Thomas Transtömer, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Vivendo Discimus, Walter Scott, Warriston Cemetery, Waverley, weather bomb, Well tempered Garden, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 21, 2020

Winter 1967

I was born in the winter of 1967. This Winter 1967 edition of the Scottish Opera Magazine contained an article on Walter Scott as well as articles on the Scottish … Continue reading Winter 1967

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1967, 1968, Abbotsford, Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, Edinburgh, Hole Ousia, Mossgrove, one shilling, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera Magazine, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Walter Scott, Winter 1967

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