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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 19, 2021March 20, 2021

The making of the future

This film follows the ideas and creativity of Patrick Geddes [1854-1932] A Russian doctor, on seeing a sketched image of Patrick Geddes, asked if this was me? I replied that … Continue reading The making of the future

Categories: Family history, gardens, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1727, 1744, 2018, ancient, Antiquary, Byershill, Canmore, Charles Bell, Dexter Britain, Earl of Hopetoun, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Edinburgh photographic society, Fairnalie, From Truth, gardener, Gardener's assistant, gate, gateway, Gazebo, gentle gardener, George Wishart, Gilmerton, Gilmerton House, Gilmour House, Hallhead, Hallhead castle, Hole Ousia, husbandry, In the middle of the yew, James Miller, John Cockburn, John Cockburn of Ormiston, Julie Fowlis, Kasabian, killed in action, Lament for the Earl of Hopetoun, Leave your body behind you, letters to his gardener, lookout, Lord of the Admiralty, Lost farm, Lunatic Asylum, Mary Queen of Scots, Mining, Monument, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Ormiston, Ormiston Hall, Ormiston Yew, Ormistoun, Ormistoun Hall, Ormistoun Yew, Patrick Geddes, Peter Gordon, Proms, Ralph Abercrombie, rebel antiquary, Richard hawley, ruin, ruins, Rutherford, Scotland, sir Ralph Abercromby, Social maverick, St Giles, TB, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The largest tree [probably] in Scotland, the lookout, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, tuberculosis, Tullibody House, Vivendo Discimus, W G Sebald, Where did all the love go, Wishart's Yew, WWI, Yew, Yew tree

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 December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

A Big Burd

This description of the burial of Mrs Burd of Ford comes from the ‘Book of Scottish Anecdote’. A Scotch Ell was just over 37 inches, so the coffin was both … Continue reading A Big Burd

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1724, 37 inches, A Big Burd, A Great woman, A Scotch Ell, acetious and intelligent man, Antiquary, Bass Rock, Big Burd, Book of Scottish Anecdote, Borrowstouness, Burial, Captain Edward Burd, Captian Burd, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Edward Burd, Elizabeth Hunter, Foord House, Ford House, Greyfriars Churchyard, Hole Ousia, Leith, Pathhead, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Social maverick, The Antiquary, the largest woman in Scotland, The Rebel Antiquary, Tindall

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 6, 2020

Wings ower Outerston

This gravestone in Temple churchyard commemorates John Craig, a local tenant farmer at ‘Outorstoun’ and two of his children. It is recorded on the stone that John Craig died in … Continue reading Wings ower Outerston

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1742, Antiquary, arrows, crossbones, East Lothian, farmer, Hole Ousia, John Craig, monumental inscription, mortality, Outerston, Outorstoun, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, scythes, skulls, Social maverick, Temple church, Temple parish, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, winged cerub

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