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Tag: courage to care

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 23, 2026

Mr Benn – Red Knight

First shown on the BBC, Autumn 1979. This episode has stayed with me all my life.

Categories: Family history, Folk worth talking about, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: BBC, Bonaly, child in his eyes, childhood, children, courage to care, Dr Peter Gordon, dragons, imagination, Mr Benn, Peter John Gordon, Red Knight, sapere aude, shyness
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 2, 2025October 2, 2025

The narrator is a paperboy

Hole ousia posts and films on paperboys and papergirls, please click here.  

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Bonaly, Colinton, courage to care, Edinburgh, kindness, Mrs Picken, newspaper boy, Omphalos films, paperboy, Peter John Gordon, The Rebel antiquary
By Hole Ousia Posted on September 18, 2025

recent harvest

Recent harvest from our garden. The apples are of an eating variety and are from a tree that was given to me in 2014 by the small team I worked … Continue reading recent harvest

Categories: Family history, gardens, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: 2025, courage to care, Dr Peter Gordon, messages, Mossgrove, NHS Forth Valley, orchards, Peter + Sian's garden, psychiatry, sapere aude
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 2, 2025

he’s gentle

From ‘Alive in the Merciful Country’ by A L Kennedy.

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, Two culturesTags: A L Kennedy, courage to care, gentle gardener, Peter Scott-Gordon, Rebel antiquary, sapere aude, stiltskins, The Rebel antiquary
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 28, 2025May 28, 2025

the music pulls you through

To play my latest short film please click here. This film is for all Little Spartans. Music credit: Real Life [Angel] by Elbow  

Categories: Omphalos filmsTags: courage to care, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Little Sparta, Omphalos films, Rebel antiquary, social maverick, Social Media, The Rebel antiquary, vivendo discimus
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 7, 2025

Greek gods of the small screen

Antigone, BBC, 1986, Juliet Stevenson: To play this sequence of ANTIGONE please click here or on the image above. A transcript is provided below: CREON: And you. You with your … Continue reading Greek gods of the small screen

Categories: Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Progress hardly broke its strideTags: Antigone, courage to care, Omphalos films, sapere aude
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 18, 2024

You will remember this

You will remember this: To play this short film please click here. Credit: P J Harvey

Categories: Omphalos filmsTags: courage to care, Omphalos films, sapere aude
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 2, 2024

‘borrowed words’

I have recently taken a most difficult decision: I have decided to retire as a doctor from the beginning of next year (2020). I really will miss being a doctor … Continue reading ‘borrowed words’

Categories: Family history, NHS Scotland, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: borrowed words, courage to care, Dr Peter Gordon, Lad o' pairts, NHS Scotland, psychiatry, reading, retirement, sapere aude

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