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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 28, 2022October 29, 2022

Mind that child

Mind that child: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Opening audio: Storytelling – Sunday Morning, Radio Scotland, 23rd Oct 2022 Music credit: Big … Continue reading Mind that child

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Omphalos films, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'bird-coop of the muses', 1967, a fallen monolith in a field, a modern ruin, A study in literature and Medicine, abandoned, Aberdeen, adventure, all houses had their stories, All the light we cannot see, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, Arctic Monkeys, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, AUDITIONS in PROGRESS, ballad, Big Ideas, Big Ted, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, Broom of Moy, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, Class of 1988, Class of 1990, Corsewall lighthouse, courage to care, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, DOME, Don Quixote, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, ethics, Everything is growing in our garden, first do no harm, Flight of ideas, Friends of Liberty, friendship, from End to End, funeral director, gate, gatekeeper, Gatekeeper [summer edition], gates, gateway, gentle gardener, George Orwell, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Girnoc, Girnock, go seek adventures, Gregory's Girl, Hale Bopp, He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, he said another three thousand pieces of nonsense, Hippocrates, hippocratic oath, Hole Ousia, Howards End, hunchback, I cannot be equal I am humbled, I emerge now carrying all my yeaRS, I emerge now carrying all my years on my back, I had a project as a small boy, I sing what I feel, Ian Collins, In the Middle, In the middle of the yew, Iron gate sensitivity, It is by living we learn, It was a dangerous time to be human to fell or to think or to care, keys cut here, Kilmadock, King Kong, Language is the dwelling place of being, learning to love like this, legislators, lines with unfinished endings, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, lost, Lost Strathdon, Madame Bovary, Marginalia, Mary Midgley, miguel de cervantes, Mind that child, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, my mind's full of things nobody else thinks about, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], Nineteen eighty-four, No more white coats, Novel, Nuillius in Verba, Oceania, Omphalos, Omphalos films, over and out, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter and Sian, Peter J Gordon, Peter's preoccupation with Wunderkammers, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Radio Scotland, reality, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, sapere aude, Scottish Poetry Library, Seaton park, Series II Land Rover, Seroxat, shimmerin, Sian Fiona Williams, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, something that could astonish an entire university no matter how learned, Sparta, Speak Memory, stories, story, story telling, Strathallan, Sunday Morning, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, SVS 978, Temple of the Muses, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, the pollen count, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rules of Science, the sky is not little, The stories of a small glen, The Times, the two cultures, they marveled at his madness, through wastelands and crossroads, Tillybin, to be humbled, Transient Landscapes, transitional object, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, ursine familiar, Ursine physiology, versos de cabo rato, Vivendo Discimus, well is there anyone who isn't tangent, what a lot of things you've strung together willy-nilly, Which novel has sold most?, with heart as gentle for distress, Woodend Hospital, Wunderkammer

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021

A poet as well as a gardener

I have been wishing to write this post for a while now. It is about the life of John Halliday who was described as “a poet as well as a … Continue reading A poet as well as a gardener

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, gardens, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1847, A narrative of twenty two years of persecution, A poet as well as a gardener, a voice fromthe people, Allan Water, An Upper Teviotdale Poet, Antiquary, asylum, ballad, ballads, Borders Chronicle, Bridge of Allan, Charles Rodger, Charles Roger, Charles Rogers, competition, Coneyhill, design, Esplenade, fisherman, florist, gardener, gentle gardener, Hall of Heroes, Hawickshiels, Hobkirk, Hole Ousia, Independence, Isabella Bain, John Halliday, landscape gardener, Langbauk, Leaves from my autobiography, Lion, Logie Churchyard, longshanks, Lunatic, Malcolm Allan, Margaret Carruthers, Mark Stephen, market garden, Monumental Madness, Mossgrove, nationalism, North Town-of-Rule, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, poem, Poems, poems and songs, poet, Queen of Scottish Spa, Queen of Scottish Spas, Rabbie Burns, rebel antiquary, River Forth, Rustic Bard, salmon, Scotland my country, Seedsman, Social maverick, St Andrews, Stirling, Stirling Castle Hotel, suicide, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Lady of the Lake, The Lady of the Lake Hotel, The modern Scottish Minstrel, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rustic Bard, The Serpent's Trail, Upper Teviotdale, Wallace Monument, Wally Mint, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks, watchmaker, Who was Charles Rogers, William Burn, William Christie, William Wallace

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

the world is all around us

Categories: Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 44 Scotland Street, abandoned, Alexander McCall Smith, an idea, angel, angelology, angels, Antiquary, ballad, Berbice, Bertie, Bertie Pollock, Coatbridge College, Colin McWilliam, Dandie Dinmont, Edinburgh, Edzell, Fettercairn, Firrhill High School, Flight of ideas, George Austen, Greek Revival, Hole Ousia, idea, Iona Fyfe, Jane Austen, Mrs Beaton, Mrs Beaton (my English teacher), No problem, North Esk, Novel, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-leg, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Pub, Radio Scotland, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Shark, Shark's Mouth, Social maverick, Teacuis, Teacuis notelets, The Antiquary, The Burn, The peppermint tea chronicles, The Rebel Antiquary, Torwood, Torwood Cottage

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 23, 2020September 26, 2022

shark’s mouth

To play the film please click here or on the above image.

Categories: Architecture, Medical humanities, Philosophy, ScotlandTags: 44 Scotland Street, abandoned, Alexander McCall Smith, an idea, angel, angelology, angels, Antiquary, ballad, Berbice, Bertie, Bertie Pollock, Coatbridge College, Colin McWilliam, Dandie Dinmont, Edinburgh, Edzell, Fettercairn, Firrhill High School, Flight of ideas, George Austen, Greek Revival, Hole Ousia, idea, Iona Fyfe, Jane Austen, Mrs Beaton, Mrs Beaton (my English teacher), No problem, North Esk, Novel, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-leg, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Pub, Radio Scotland, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Shark, Shark's Mouth, Social maverick, Teacuis, Teacuis notelets, The Antiquary, The Burn, The peppermint tea chronicles, The Rebel Antiquary, Torwood, Torwood Cottage

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