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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

Interior of others

I made this film more than 3 years ago about a house and it’s interior. Eastend House, Thankerton. The images in this film of Eastend House are not my own. … Continue reading Interior of others

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A L Kennedy, A S Byatt, Abercairney, Aberthuven, Adam Nicolson, Ali Smith, An interior of others, Andrew Greig, Anne Tyler, Anthony Dooer, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, Are guidelines evidence-based, ‘Evidence Based Medicine’ or ‘Industry Biased Medicine’, be-headed, Book of Scottish Anecdote, Bower, brainlessness, By living we learn, Carmichael, castle, Condie, Credible or incredible - experience is evidence, Crieff, death of Montrose, disembodied, Dr Flaxman, Dr Peter Gordon, Dylan thomas, Eastend, EBM, Eric Matthews, evidence based medicine, execution, experience, Gask, gentle gardener, Graeme, Great Montrose, headless, Helen Liston Hardie, Hole Ousia, Inchbrakie, It is by living we learn, John Berger, John Donne, Kate McNiven, Leon Eisenberg, Marquis of Montrose, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty, mindlessness, Monzie, New Condie, No man is an island, Oliphant, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Graeme, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, philosopher, philsophy, poem, Poems, poet, Professor Eric Matthews, rebel antiquary, ring, Scotland, Social maverick, St Giles, subjective-objective divide, subjectivity, Susan Bewley, Thankerton, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Inchbrakie Yew, The Rebel Antiquary, the view from nowhere, Thomas Nagel, time, time passes, time passes listen, Tomas Transtromer, Under Milk Wood, Vivendo Discimus, Vladimir Nabokov, whose subjectivity was being studied, witch, Yew, Yew trees

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

Death of Montrose.

The Book of Scottish Anecdotes says this about the death of Montrose: Two years ago I visited the Yew tree where Montrose spent his second last night in hiding. I … Continue reading Death of Montrose.

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Abercairney, Aberthuven, An interior of others, Antiquary, be-headed, Book of Scottish Anecdote, Bower, brainlessness, Carmichael, castle, Condie, Crieff, death of Montrose, disembodied, Dr Flaxman, Eastend, Eric Matthews, execution, Gask, Graeme, Great Montrose, headless, Helen Liston Hardie, Hole Ousia, Inchbrakie, Kate McNiven, Leon Eisenberg, Marquis of Montrose, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty, mindlessness, Monzie, New Condie, Oliphant, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Graeme, Peter J Gordon, Professor Eric Matthews, rebel antiquary, ring, Scotland, Social maverick, St Giles, Thankerton, The Antiquary, The Inchbrakie Yew, The Rebel Antiquary, witch, Yew, Yew trees

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 11, 2020

In the middle of the Yew

My fascination with Yew trees has neither a beginning nor an end.

Categories: Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1943, 700 year old layering Yew, a Miracle of Yew Regeneration, a modern ruin, abandoned, Abbotshall, Abercairney, Aberthuven, Adam and Eve, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander Moncrieffe, Alexander Naysmith, An ancient child, ancient, Andrew MacFarlane., Antiquary, Ardnamurchan, Argyll, Arm Chair, Arrochar, Auchendrane, Auchendrane yew, Ayrshire, bannister, Bernera, Berneray, Bienn a' Bhacaidh, Bienna Bhacaidh, Bilbliotheca Abscondita, Bower, brainlessness, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, castle, chapel of the Yew trees, child, circular yew, Clan Fraser, concentration camps, Condie, connection, Craigends, Craigends Yew, Crieff, Crookston castle, Culfargie, curves, Dalmellington, Dalserf, Dalserf parish Church, Dame Helen's castle, Dovecot, Dunaskin, Dunwich, Earlshall, East Lothian, Eccles Church Tower, Edinburgh, Evelyn Waugh, exploration, Fife, fire, Ford, formal, Fortingal, Fortingal Yew, Fortingall, Fortingall Yew, Fraser Clan, garden, gardesns, Gask, gate, gatepiers, gateposts, gateway, Geese, gentle gardener, Glasgow, Glenhurich, Graeme, Great Montrose, Grove, hares would yet breed on his hearthstone, headless, Hedge, hedging, Helen Liston Hardie, Hermit, herring, Hole Ousia, How to stop time, humanity, I Vow, I Vow castle, I Vow Yew, In the middle of the yew, Inchbrakie, Incorrigibly plural, island, It is by living we learn, James Joyce, Jehanne Mehta, Kate McNiven, Keirs castle, Kilneuair, Kirkcaldy, Laight castle, landcape architecture, landscape, Landscape Architecture, Leon Eisenberg, light, Lismore, Little Spartan, Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Lochan na h' Iubhraich, Lochawe, Lochnell, Lord Darnley, Loss, MacFarlane, Mansion, Margaret Mary Scott, Marquis of Montrose, Mary Queen of Scots, Matt Haig, Max Sebald, Maze, memory, mindlessness, MLA distinction, model, Monzie, Musaem Clausum, national Trust for Scotland, Nature, New Condie, Nigel Tranter, Oliphant, Omphalos, Omphalos films, painter, Patrick Geddes, Patrick Graeme, Paul Greenwood, Persecuting Raploch, Perthshire, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, poem, poet, poetry, Pollok House, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, Rabbie Burns, Raploch, rebel antiquary, Renfrewshire, ring, Robert the Bruce, Rockingham, Rockingham elephants, ruin, ruins, Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees, Scotland, Scull, sermons, silver darlings, Social maverick, Somerleyton, St Columba, St Columba's Yew, St Giles, St Moluag, stairs, stairway, Stenton, Stirling-Maxwell, taxus baccata, The Abbotshall Yew, The Antiquary, The Auchendrane Yew, The Brownie's Cell, the Chapel of the Yew Trees, the Crookston yew tree, The Culfargie Yew, The Elanvow Preservation Fund, The faded glories of his Clan, The Fraser Yew, The Gentle Gardener, The Giant's Garden, The Inchbrakie Yew, the largest Yew tree in Scotland, the lion of the secession churc, The little loch of the yew grove, the living hedge, The Monastery, The Raploch Yew, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, The speaking hedge, The Wallace Yew, These are the hands, Thomas Browne, three castles, three sisters, Tomas Transtromer, topiary, village, Vivendo Discimus, W G Sebald, Walter Scott, When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree, William Hamilton, William Wallace, William Wordsworth, Winfried Georg Sebald, witch, Would you Adam and Eve it?, writer, WWII, Wyndeham Le strange, Yew, Yew hedge, Yew tree, Yew trees, Yews

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 21, 2018December 21, 2018

Inchbrakie

I visited Inchbrakie, near Crieff on the 17th December 2018. It was a damp and dreich day in a remote part of my country but I somehow felt history all … Continue reading Inchbrakie

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, ScotlandTags: Abercairney, Aberthuven, Bower, castle, Condie, Crieff, Gask, Graeme, Great Montrose, headless, Helen Liston Hardie, Inchbrakie, Kate McNiven, Marquis of Montrose, Monzie, New Condie, Oliphant, Patrick Graeme, ring, St Giles, witch, Yew

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