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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 20, 2023

Fair scunnert

Aberdeen Press and Journal, 30 March 1932:

Categories: Deeside Tales, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Aberdeenshire, Aiberdeenshire, All the sky’s silences - its dialects, Antiquary, Bit there's nae accoontin' for tastes, Braid Scotch, Deeside Tales: The stories of a small glen, dialect, Doric, Dumfoonert Loon, Fair scunnert, Hole Ousia, Letter to the Editor, local vernacular, March 1932, Peter Scott-Gordon, Press and Journal, Put your child first, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Dumfoonert Loon, The first five years of life are the most important, The Rebel Antiquary, to write in the dialect of his country, vernacular poetry, William Will

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 12, 2023

They fell for us

These short films by Peter recall those who fell for us in War [please click on each image to play a different short film]. Between two black lines in the … Continue reading They fell for us

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 11-11-2023, 1715, 1917, 2023, A film written in chalk, abandoned, Aberdeenshire, active service, Adam Roy, Alastair John Greville Murray, Albert Bayne, Albert Edward Bayne, Alexander Livingstone, Alexander Stevenson, all at sea, Allan Water, an utterance, Antiquary, Argyll, Armistice day, artists and activists offer hope for the future, at sea, Auchinhard, Badly Drawn Boy, Balhaldie, barbed wire, barometer, battle, Battle of Sheriffmuir, battles, Between two black lines in the evening paper, Big Ted, Blackford, Blackford farms, Boreland farm, Borland farm, Bridge of Allan, Bugle Boy, by his mother, Canadian Tank Battalion, crosses, Damon Albarn, Darn walk, destroyed by fire, died at sea, died for us, displenishing sale, DLROW, Dr Flaxman, Dr John Flaxman, Durn House, Edinburgh, Ellemhaugh, environment, environmental wrongs, Exit Music, Fall, fell for us, gateway, gathering stone, Gawaine Baillie, George Nairn, Glenour, Glenover, Gunner, Hale Bopp, Harry Patch, have you ever seen a barometer that stays still, he sees what other people don't, Hill 70, Hole Ousia, Ian Collins, Influenza, is it time itself that we mourn, It is not down in any map, It is not down in any map true places never are, Jacobites, Jawhills, John Hyslop Gracie, Jools Holland, Just for one day, killed in action, Land for the People, Land Reform, Land Settlement Act, Last Fighting Tommy, left in ruins, Liechtenstein, Lisa Hannigan, Lost camera, Matt Johnson, Millad, Milladd, mirrors, neglected, nettles, New Zealand, NZEF, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Outlook tower, Patrick Geddes, Perth, Perthshire, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Piano Theme, Polkemmet, Polmaise, poppy fields, Private George Scott, progress hardly broke its stride, rebel antiquary, reclaiming our land, remembrance, remembrance day, Richard hawley, rickle of stanes, Robin Hyde, Rose Street, royal morning blue, ruin, ruins, Saltire, Scottish Borders, scribbled in chalk, Series II, Series II Land Rover, shadows, Sheriffmuir, Sheriffmuir Inn, Sherramoor, Sherramuir, Side, Singing Street, Slamannan, Social maverick, soldiers, Somme, space body other time, Spanish Flu, Spanish Influenza, Steven Lindsay, Stirling, storms, Syde, temporary art, The Antiquary, The Godwits fly, The House of Lessendrum, The Rebel Antiquary, There he dies, They fell for us, Time catches up, unknown soldier, Vivendo Discimus, Walter Bisset, Walter F Elrington Bisset, war, war diary, war is long slender rows of names between two black lines in the evening paper, West Lothian, what love means, who owns Scotland, William Nairn, William Yeats Stevenson, Worn-out mattresses, wrong side of the door, WWI, WWII, You're gonna live forever in me, young men

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 4, 2023March 21, 2023

Mimrikin

Mimrikin’s Clump is to be found a little west of Logie farm in the Parish of Fintray, Aberdeenshire. The Modern Antiquarian visited Mimrikin in June 2011: “It is easy to … Continue reading Mimrikin

Categories: Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Aberdeenshire, Antiquary, Dr Peter Gordon, Etymoligical Dictionary, etymology, Fintray parish, Hatton of Fintray, Hole Ousia, Logie farm, Mimrikin, Mimrikin's Clump, Modern Antiquarian, Ordnance Survey Book, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, river Don, Social maverick, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, stone circle, supposed site of Stone circle, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, to know the origins of words is to know the cultural history of humankind, Tyrebagger

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

Sleepy

In the parish of Huntly there is a natural hillock known as ‘Sleepy‘. To get to ‘Sleepy’ you first need to open the, now unhinged gate, to where St Peter’s … Continue reading Sleepy

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A large Stone by the Side of Gordon's Burn, Aberdeenshire, Antiquary, caudy knows, Drumelgie, Duke of Gordon, elapse of half a century or so, folk lore, gate, gateway, Glen Burn, Gordon's burn, Gordon's chair, Hole Ousia, Huntly Parish, Modern Ruin, Ordnance Survey Book, rebel antiquary, River Deveron, Scotland, sleepy, Social maverick, sold a piece of land to a man named Caddle but refused to Sign the Charter, St Peter's church, The Antiquary, The Fairy Hillocks, The Rebel Antiquary, The worship days of this church so far in the past they have all but been forgotten, Time had forgotten to change them and the felt as if they had only been asleep a few hours, time passes listen, to be overcome with sleep, to find everything changed and no one to remember them, unhinged

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