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By Hole Ousia Posted on August 7, 2021

There’s no blue like a Giotto blue

An old landmark of Bridge of Allan: a white bridge that was painted blue. For Caroline Stuart Clarke and her family. .

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, suicide, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Ali Smith, Allan Water, Antiquary, Badly Drawn Boy, blue bridge, Book of longing, bridge, Bridge of Allan, Caroline Stuart Clarke, drowned, drowning, Edmund de Waal, Elizabeth Frazer, films about bridge of Allan, Grief, Hawthorns, Hole Ousia, Is there nothing we could do', Kenilworth Road, Knockando, Knockando Manse, Leonard Cohen, Loss, Maria Jane Sinclair Clarke, Mossgrove, Old Landmark, old white Bridge, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Piano Theme, rebel antiquary, Rev John Clarke, Sam lee, Scotland, Social maverick, Stirlingshire, suicide, Ten Summers fade, The Antiquary, The Moon Shines Bright, The Rebel Antiquary, The White Road, There's no blue like a Giotto blue, This is not yesterday, VERTIGO, W G Sebald, white bridge, Winter

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021

Strathella [CHILD STUDIES]

This is a sad story.

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: abandoned, alleged child murder, Angus, Antiquary, Badly Drawn Boy, Bluebell Cockshell 1-2-3, Bridge of Leppie, child, CHILD STUDIES, Deep, displenishing sale, farm, From Scotland with Love, Helen Gordon, Hole Ousia, illegitimate, Is there nothing we could do', James Morrison, King Cresote, Old Cake, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Piano Theme, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Social maverick, Strathella, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, [Lost and found]

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 16, 2021April 17, 2021

near my dear home there’s a garden

This short film is about a walled garden that lost it’s walls and is now surounded by motorways: Music credits: [1] ‘The Kings Speech’ – Alexandre Desplat [2] ‘Is there … Continue reading near my dear home there’s a garden

Categories: Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1952, 55 Merry Street, abandoned, Alexandre Desplat, Antiquary, Badly Drawn Boy, Baillie of Carnbroe, Bellshill, Cairnbroe, Cairnbroe house, Cairnbroe mansion, Captain Baxter, Coatbridge, Demolished, gairdener, gairdener's hoose, garden, gardener's house, gardens, gentle gardener, Glasgow University, Hole Ousia, Hugh Colquhoun Hamilton, Is there nothing we could do', Kick the sleepers away, Matthew Baillie, Meiklam, Merry Street, Motherwell, near my dear home there’s a garden, North Calder Water, Peter Gordon, poem, rebel antiquary, Robert Baillie, ruin, ruins, Scotland, shade, Shade family, Social maverick, The Antiquary, the gardener's cottage, The Kings Speech, The Rebel Antiquary, Thomas Adams, Thomas Fleming Adams, University of Glasgow, walled garden

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2021

Who owns the land?

This image, as printed in Scotland on Sunday, 21 March 2021, returned my thoughts to the Cabrach, and a series of films that I made long ago:

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1854, a modern ruin, A pocket book [found in Cabrach, a scurvy antiquary such as I am, a vulgar eloquence, abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, actual or potential attitudes, actual or potential selves, Aldunie, Alexander McCall Smith, and feeling the only compass in life, Annalena McAfee, Antiquary, Architecture, Arts, Badly Drawn Boy, bank, beautiful summer, between the scavenger and the philosopher, Blackwater Lodge, Blackwater Shooting Lodge, body, brain, Buck, Built on the Clyde, Bundle and Go, Bursary, Cabrach, Cabrach Post Office, Cabrach Shooting lodge, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Can you unfeel that, Centenarian, Correction Wynd, Craighall castle, cut-in-half, Dauch, death, dialect, Distance and Memory, Distant Sky, divide, divides, Doric, duthchas, Easy Love, family history, farm, Fascaray, films on the Cabrach, Flight of ideas, For truly she is Nature's gentlewoman, frae weans to auld wans, Gaelic, Gamekeeper, gate, gateway, Gauch, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Gordon bursary, gripped by an intense nostalgia for the present, hairt, Hale Bopp, Hame, he had loved maps since he was a boy, heart, history lessons - we had been taught the big facts not the minor, Hole Ousia, Home for little children, I am part of all that I have met, I was free I was affronted by freedom, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian McEwan, If there could be a name, Intensely Local, island, It is by living we learn, James Law, James Ross, Little Sparta, Lordism, Lordism impoverishes the land, magpie, Mary Law, mind, Modern Ruin, Morbus Fascariensis, mountains, murder, My notebook will be better than a doctor, Nan Shepherd, objective, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Ou Phrontis, Paget's disease, Patrick Geddes, Peter and Sian, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon found a pocketbook, Peter Gordon Law, Peter J Gordon, Piano Theme, poet in a landscape, poetry and identity, Poor Old Love, Poor Old Tired Horse, post office, postmistress, Prospects bright for 'Twelfth', Queen Victoria, rainbow, rebel antiquary, Rhynie, Robert Gordon, ruin, ruins, Science, Scotland, Scots, She gangs in brawness, Shenval, shooting, Sian Fiona Williams, Silver darling, Social maverick, St Peter's Seminary, Straloch, subjective, The Antiquary, The Blossoms, The Cabrach Tragedy, the outdoors brought a sense of proportion, the places that loom large in our lives, The present order is the disorder of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The stories of a small glen, there really was no hurry. I was going nowhere. Nowhere but here, These are the hands, This is not yesterday, to be humbled, Two Cultures, un-scottish style, Vivendo Discimus, watergaw, we have no record of the poet's reaction when he opened the door, Wind farm, write about love, writer, writers, WWI, your far dispatches bring remoteness nea

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