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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 4, 2023November 24, 2023

Betty Anderson cut down

Fife Herald, 27 February 1868: Mugdrum House.

Categories: Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1868, a very large tree, Antiquary, Ash tree, Backbraes, Betty Anderson, Betty Anderson cut down, Betty Anderson tree, Fife, Fife Herald, friendship, Friendship itself, Hole Ousia, I see naebody sae stout as mysel', large tree, Mugdrum, Newburgh, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 19, 2023

Love catch these fragments:

To play this short film please click here or on the image above.

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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 5, 2023

Poem 19 [NOTES]

Poem 19 [NOTES]: To watch this short film please click here or on the image above Music credit: Badly Drawn Boy – This Is The Day ( a Cover)

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Antiquary, Badly Drawn Boy, Bridge of Allan, friendship, Hole Ousia, Ian Collins, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Poem 19 [NOTES], rebel antiquary, Sheramoor, Sheriffmuir, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The The, This is the Day

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

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