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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 12, 2021

Secret of the Yew Tree

‘If we are on a path of initiation into the secrets of landscape, earthlore and healing, the yew tree can become a powerful heirophant.’ The Ormiston Yew The circular Yew … Continue reading Secret of the Yew Tree

Categories: gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 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, heirophant, Helen Liston Hardie, Hermit, herring, Hole Ousia, How to stop time, humanity, I Vow, I Vow castle, I Vow 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, Secret of the Yew Tree, 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 ormiston Yew, 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 January 7, 2021January 8, 2021

Bathwell

Filmed at Bathwell House, Rosneath, Argyll, in the summer of 2020. Music credit: ‘Sky Full of Song’ Florence and the Machine

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, ScotlandTags: 1961, A room with a view, Andrew O'Hagan, another young man who had been poking distractedly among the ruins, Antiquary, archive, Argyll, Bend Sinister, Black Mirror, Bloody Old Britain, blown-up, Brideshead Revisited, Canmore, Charles Ryder, Dark Skies, Demolished, Distant Skies, Duchess of Argyll, Duke of Argyll, E M Forster, Emma Pollock, Films about ruins, Florence and the Machine, Gabriel García Márquez, gelegnite, headless beds, Hole Ousia, Jermy Irons, legless chairs, Love Among the Ruins, Margaret Drabble, Mayflies, my own life, Naval Base, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, O G S Crawford, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Princess Louise, Raymond Tallis, rebel antiquary, Robin Hyde, Rosneath, Rosneath castle, Rosneath House, Rosneath Peninsula, ruin, ruins, Sky full of song, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Dark Flood Rises, The Godwits fly, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, the scandal of the century, Vladimir Nabokov, Voice of Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder, W G Sebald, Worn-out mattresses

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021

Worn-out mattresses, legless chairs, headless beds

This is a short film about Rosneath Castle in Argyll. It was once the home of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. Rosneath House was blown-up with 220lb of gelegnite in … Continue reading Worn-out mattresses, legless chairs, headless beds

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1961, A room with a view, Andrew O'Hagan, another young man who had been poking distractedly among the ruins, Antiquary, Argyll, Bend Sinister, Black Mirror, Bloody Old Britain, blown-up, Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder, Dark Skies, Demolished, Distant Skies, Duchess of Argyll, Duke of Argyll, E M Forster, Emma Pollock, Films about ruins, Gabriel García Márquez, gelegnite, headless beds, Hole Ousia, Jermy Irons, legless chairs, Love Among the Ruins, Margaret Drabble, Mayflies, my own life, Naval Base, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, O G S Crawford, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Princess Louise, Raymond Tallis, rebel antiquary, Robin Hyde, Rosneath, Rosneath castle, Rosneath House, Rosneath Peninsula, ruin, ruins, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Dark Flood Rises, The Godwits fly, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, the scandal of the century, Vladimir Nabokov, Voice of Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder, W G Sebald, Worn-out mattresses

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

‘SCOTUS’

John Gibson Scott, my uncle, was known to his fellow university students as ‘SCOTUS’. My uncle died on 7th May 2012. He was a man not without flaws [who is … Continue reading ‘SCOTUS’

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Voluntary workTags: Africa, anecdote, Antiquary, Argyll, Big Bearded Commander, Book of Scottish Anecdote, Constance Scott, Dr Donald Brownlie, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, Hole Ousia, John Gibson Scott, John Scott, John Wightman, Kampala, Leave your body behind you, Lochawe, Medical Student, Mengo hospital, Mengo Hospital: I have never entirely left it, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, SCOTUS, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, This is your country, Tower of Glenstrae, Uganda

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