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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 1, 2021October 1, 2021

“3 STRIKES”

This has been a difficult week for me. I am not sure if I can begin to explain. In a wider world of concerns, my ‘difficult week’ is nothing! As … Continue reading “3 STRIKES”

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: 3 strikes, All you need is love, Eleanor Rigby, Finding Cimbrone, Hole Ousia, Omphalos, Omphalos films, The Beatles, tone to surround the whole, Vimeo, wiped out, Wonderful Moment, Yesterday

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

More of a journey than a gateway

I have been scraping our rusty and paint-flaked garden gate. This gate dates back to 1880, the same date as our house. I wonder how many folk have opened and … Continue reading More of a journey than a gateway

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A lot of hot air, a rain-faded notice pinned upon a gate, Aberdeen Medical School, Airth, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Architect, balloon, Becoming a film of sorts, Ben Okri, Bridge of Allan, Carnock House, Carnoustie, Carubber's Manse, Casulaties, Class of 1990, distressed furniture, Duncan Brown, Earl of Panmure, East Silvermills lane, Edinburgh, Edmonstone estate, Edmonstone house, Falcon Hall, Family films, Feist, Finding Cimbrone, Folly, gardens, gate-posts, gatekeeper, Gatekeeper [summer edition], gatepiers, gateposts, gates, gateway to Saturdays, gateways, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Henry Raeburn, Hillhead Halls, Hold Everything Dear, Hole Ousia, how many gateways revisited, I scribbled in chalk "The temple of decision" on the old gatepost. It will have washed off in yesterday's rain. I also scribbled in chalk "Si monumentum queries, In search of lost time, Iron gate sensitivity, James Gowans, Kilmarnock, Lacunar Strevelinense, Ladykirk House, Lincoln in the Bardo, Lion Gate, Little France, Lord Panmure, love, Marcel Proust, Margaret Scott, medicine, More of a journey than a gateway, Morningside, Mossgrove, musing he walked out through the entrance gate, my mum, My mum for reading me so many Ladybird books, My true country, Napier Road, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Pagoda, pandemic, Panmure Estate, Panmure House, Paris, Paul Buchanan, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Reaching out for you, rebel antiquary, Robert Scott Moncrieff, Rockville, ruins, Sian Fiona Williams, Sighthill Cemetery, Silvermills, Snow Patrol, Social maverick, stravaiging need not be lonely, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Survives only in a pair of gate posts far away, The Antiquary, the gateway to saturdays removed, The Medicine is in Aberdeen, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Think I'll go outside, Two Cultures, University of Aberdeen, Walter Scott, West Lodge, [summer edition]

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 6, 2020August 9, 2020

this Mossgrove summer

this Mossgrove summer I ‘retired’. Rachel invited our garden to the village. Agapnathus flowered for the first time.

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Agapanthus, Cimbrone, Finding Cimbrone, Peter John Gordon, poem, poet, poetry, Sian Fiona Williams, summer, this summer

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 28, 2019

‘I am La Louve. I am Longmeadow.’

This post is for the wonderful Monty Don.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A child’s garden of verses, a gardener is always a futurist, a specially fertile or delightful region, a whole garden made out of love, Antiquary Gardens, BBC, Bridge of Allan, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, fifty years a gardener, Finding Cimbrone, garden, gardener, Gardener's World, Gardens of the Mind, Green Routes, Hole Ousia, I need to get back to my gardening, La Louve, Longmeadow, Monty Don, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paestum, Peter J Gordon, Rab Scott, Ravello, rebel antiquary, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, Sweet peas, the garden moved in the breeze, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Giant's Garden, The Rebel Antiquary, The well tempered garden, Vladimir Nabakov, Well tempered Garden, when this place was a a garden - one endless garden from end to end

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