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By Hole Ousia Posted on June 7, 2022

Gascon Ha’

11th April 2022, Peter and Sian visit the ruins of Orchard and the last remains of Gascon Hall. Perthshire Courier, 6 July 1987: A schoolboy adventure, September 1884: Newspaper report, … Continue reading Gascon Ha’

Categories: Architecture, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Antiquary, boating excursion, Bonny Gascon Ha', castle, Chronicles of Strathearn, Gascon Ha', Gascon Hall, Gasconhall, Gask, Gask ridge, ghost, Ghost of Faudon, Hole Ousia, Lady Nairne, New Statistical Account, Oliphant, Oliphants of Gask, orchard, Orchard farm, Perthshire, Peter and Sian, poem, poet, rebel antiquary, River Earn, ruin, ruins, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, tower house, Trinity Gask, William Wallace

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 30, 2021

‘The shape of my library is round’

I recently read ‘Letters to Camondo’ by Edmund De Waal. In Exploring this Parisian museum it shares writing at it’s most beautiful: I was delighted to read that like Montaigne, … Continue reading ‘The shape of my library is round’

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Albert Camus, Alexander McCall Smith, Antiquary, archive, Ayrshire, borrowed words, castle, curving round me, Dailly, Dalquharron, Dexter Britain, Dylan thomas, E M Forster, Edmund de Waal, Evelyn Waugh, Guy Garvey, Howards End, I love this room, Incorrigibly plural, Juggernaut, letters to Camondo, Library, magically reached out, Magically reaches out, Mansion, Margaret Drabble, Marginalia, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Moïse de Camondo, Montaigne, multifarious learner, Musee Nissim De Camondo, Museum, Nina George, Of three kinds of Association, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paris, Patrick Deeley, Peter Gordon, polymath, rebel antiquary, Robert Adam, roofless, ruin, Scotland, The Antiquary, The Flying Scotsman, The Plague, The Rebel Antiquary, The shape of my library is round, Two Cultures, Vitruvius Scoticus, Walter Scott

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 27, 2021

From glamour to dereliction and back

The garden of Lochnaw castle, as featured in Scotland on Sunday, 24th January 2021:

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: An orchard for an apple, Antiquary, Antiquary Gardens, Cabbages in an Orchard, castle, From glamour to dereliction and back, garden, gardens, gentle gardener, Hole Ousia, In the Middle, Lochnaw, Lochnaw castle, Mull of Galloway, orchard, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Scotland on Sunday, Social maverick, ten years later there are 1000 different apple varieties, The Antiquary, The Cherry Orchard, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, Venetia and Geoffrey, walled garden

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