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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 9, 2024January 9, 2024

Bodies for dissection

27 February 1993, Aberdeen Evening Express: A few old films made by myself about being a Medical Student in Aberdeen [I graduated in 1990]: The anatomy of emotion: No more … Continue reading Bodies for dissection

Categories: Family history, History of medicine, Medical Education, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Aberdeen, Aberdeen Council, Aberdeen Medical School, all visitors must report to reception, Anatomy Department, Antiquary, bedside manner, Bodies for dissection, Class of 1988, Class of 1990, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, dissecting room, DOME, Dr Peter Gordon, Hole Ousia, I gave a brief 5 minute talk on "bedside manner" in the old dissecting room, Lecture in progress, Littlejohn Street, Marischal College, Mortified at the boozers by the bodies, Nightclub, No more white coats, Omphalos, Omphalos films, PETER + SIAN, Peter Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, rebel antiquary, Sian Fiona Williams, Smart Alex, Social maverick, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Blazing Apostles, The Bloody Marys, The Rebel Antiquary, Verase Ltd, we were working for the Department of Medicine for the Elderly [DOME], Woodend Hospital

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 4, 2023October 4, 2023

stars were born

To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music credit: Praise You – an acoustic cover by Reina del Cid

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: acoustic, acoustic cover, allium seedhead, Anatomy of emotion, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Class of 1988, Class of 1990, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, DOME, Fatboy slim, Gregory's Girl, Hole Ousia, Hopeless case, Intensely Local, Local Hero, Mossgrove, Mossgrove garden, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter and Sian, Peter and Sian are keen gardeners, Peter and Sian's garden, Praise You, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Reina del Cid, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, stars were born, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Tillybin, Yesterday evening - as the sun got lower in the sky - allium seedheads in our garden [daft punk and beautiful] glowed in wondrous shades of colour

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 19, 2023June 19, 2023

How being read a story can help

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, 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, A Thousand chances, abandoned, Aberdeen, adventure, All in my head, All in my heid, All the light we cannot see, an orchard for me, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, Antiquary, Around the Ochils, Around the Ochils in a SERIES II Land Rover, Art is an act of daring, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, AUDITIONS in PROGRESS, backwards learner, Big Ted, Biscuits, blossom, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, Chrys Muirhead, 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, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Edinburgh, ethics, Everything is growing in our garden, Featuring 'Big Ted' [knitted by Chrys Muirhead for Peter], felt madcap and adventurous, Firrhill High School, first do no harm, Flight of ideas, Friends of Liberty, friendship, from End to End, gate, gatekeeper, Gatekeeper [summer edition], gates, gateway, gentle gardener, George Orwell, 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, How being read a story can help, 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 had a wild thought, I like it when you call me Mr Scott, 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, it's the adventurous who are shy, John Berger, keys cut here, Kilmadock, 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, marvellous madness, Mary Midgley, miguel de cervantes, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, Mossgrove garden, Mrs Beaton, MUD, Muriel Spark, 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, orchard, orchardman, Ousia, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter and Sian, Peter and Sian's garden, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, Peter's preoccupation with Wunderkammers, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, Rab Scott, Rachel Fiona Gordon, reality, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, sapere aude, Scottish Poetry Library, Seaton park, Series II, Series II Land Rover, Seroxat, Sherramoor, Sherrifmuir, shimmerin, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, 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, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, Temple of the Muses, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, The Elephant Child, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, The Glory of the ride, 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, This question was asked in last week's Sunday TIMES, through wastelands and crossroads, Tillybin, to be humbled, To speak our life as we feel it is a freedom, transitional object, transitional objects, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, Two postcards from, 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 January 25, 2023March 21, 2023

Agapanthus

Agapanthus: natural, beautiful, reaching sharing light, colour and presence. A globe, a world, projecting tall into the clearest of skies. Without Agapanthus I have no sky.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 44 Midstocket Road, A globe - a world, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Medical School, Aberdeen University, Agapanthus: natural beautiful reaching, Agapnathus, Amalfi, Antiquary, Class of 1988, Class of 1990, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, DOME, Dr Peter Gordon, Finding Cimbrone, flower of love, genus of plants of the lily family, Hole Ousia, James Clerk Maxwell, light, Peter, Peter and Sian, Peter and Sian's garden, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Peter's poems, poem, poetry, projecting tall into the clearest of skies, rebel antiquary, Scottish Poetry Library, sharing light colour and presence, Sian, Sian Fiona Gordon, Sian Fiona Williams, Sian saw a glimmer in me. I was dazzled by Sian, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the sky belongs to us all, the sky brightened from one horizon to the other, This is not yesterday, Tillybin, Together - and only together, togetherness, wavelength, Without Agapanthus I have no sky., Woodend Hospital

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