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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 2, 2016January 27, 2023

Stevenson’s cave

This is the cave on the river Allan that Robert Louis Stevenson felt had always been “a part of me”. My family used to own Drumdruils, where the cave is … Continue reading Stevenson’s cave

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Orchards, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2 February 1866, a part of me, Allan Water, always been "a part of me", Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Ben Gunn, Ben Gunn's cave, Bridge of Allan, cave, Cocksburn, Cox burn, Daniel McNeil Watson, Darn Road, Dr Peter Gordon, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, films about bridge of Allan, Golden wedding, Hole Ousia, Lecropt: Ten Summers Fade, Margaret Baird, Margaret Mary Scott, Millad, Milladd, Mossgrove, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, proposal, Rab Scott, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, RLS, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sheramoor, Sheriffmuir, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Stevenson's cave, Sunnylaw, Sunnylaw House, Ten Summers fade, The Antiquary, The brig that spans the Wharry, The Rebel Antiquary, The wahrry, the wharrie, The Wharry Burn, There is a little cavern here, Thursday 22nd February 1866, Treasure island, Two postcards, Two postcards from, Two postcards from Bridge of Allan, Wharrie, Wharry burn, Wharry Glen, which has been part of me

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 25, 2015January 15, 2023

Turn again, thou fair Eliza!

Today it is the 25th January 2015. Rabbie Burns was born on this day in 1759. My family have a story about Rabbie Burns. It is not widely known. In … Continue reading Turn again, thou fair Eliza!

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Poems, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: "Lucky" (as Betty was familiarly called), 12th February 2009, 1965, 25 January, A Clydesdale Man, A song-heroine of Burns, Alec MacCallum-Scott, Alva, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Asloss, Auld Lang Syne, Betty Black, Betty Black - an Alva Worthy, Body snatchers, Bridge of Allan, Burke and Hare, Burns Nicht, Carluke, Catriona, Charles Rodger, Charles Rogers, Daniel McNeil Watson, Darwin, Dave Francis, David Rutherford, Dean Castle, Devon, doctor, Dr Daniel Reid Rankin, Dr John Stewart Rutheford, Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord, Dr Knox, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Rankin, Dr Robert Knox, drowned, Earl of Glencairn, Eccentric, Eliza Black, Fair Eliza, folk singer, Fossils, Gilbert Farie, GP, Hole Ousia, How oddly all this touches me, James Macrae, James Woodburn Dunlop, Jekyll & Hyde, John Glen Parker, Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock Edition, Lecropt, Lismore, Luckie, Lycidas, MacRobert Arts Centre, Mairi Campbell, Margaret Black, Margaret Mary Scott, Mauchline Belles, Middle Bridge, Monumental Madness, Mrs Begg [sister of Rabbie Burns]:most of the engraved portraits of her brother “are incorrect and some bear no resemblance”, musician, No 5, one-eyed anatomist, Peter Gordon, Poems, poet, poetry, Rabbie Burns, rebel antiquary, Resurrectionists, Robert Burns, Robert Burns in Stirlingshire, Robert Louis Stevenson, sampler, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, Slidderybraes, Social maverick, Stirling, Tam o' Shanter, Ten Summers fade, The Antiquary, The Cast, the first biographer of Winston Churchill, the Great Garden, The modern Scottish Minstrel, The Rebel Antiquary, The strange case of Dr Jekyll & Hyde, The Two Hundredth Anniversary of Darwin’s birth, Turn again thou fair Eliza!, Wallace Monument, Where recorded history has gone astray: Rabbie Burns, William Harvey, Written by Dr Peter J. Gordon

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