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By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

pinkle-wonkery

Radical landscape: To play this short film please click here or on the image above, Music credits: [1] Cracker Island – by Gorillaz featuring Thundercat [2] All my friends – by … Continue reading pinkle-wonkery

Categories: Delirium, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Omphalos films, PhilosophyTags: 2 cultures, 2022, a little bit of activity, a mark in the landscape, activism, Antiquary, Art, Bannockburn House, Boris Johnson, bridge, Bridge of Allan, bridges, clematis, Florence, garden, gate, gateways, green man, Hole Ousia, Ian Collins, Identity, Lecture in progress, Little Sparta, Mossgrove, Peter and Sian, pinkle-wonkery, radical landscapes, rebel antiquary, seed-head, Series II, Series II Land Rover, Social maverick, Stirling, Stirling Smith, stude, The Antiquary, the broken clock room, The Gentle Gardener, The Glory of the ride, The Rebel Antiquary, Traffic lights, Vision and Design

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 6, 2022September 7, 2022

“the boundaries”

This short film explores our need to search for certain boundaries, however elusive. I was fortunate to work as an NHS doctor for more than a quarter of a century. … Continue reading “the boundaries”

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2 cultures, Antiquary, Argyll, Big Ted, boundaries, Bridge of Allan, Cranberries, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, gate, gateway, gateways, gentle gardener, Glendaruel, Hole Ousia, Lucknow, Lucknow gate, need to search for certain boundaries, Omphalos, rebel antiquary, scholarly gardener remembered, Social maverick, The Antiquary, the boundaries, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Tiny Desk Concert, Tomorrow, ursine familiar, Ursine familiars

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 29, 2022July 29, 2022

to learn from the experience of others

Yesterday I was in the city of Perth with my wife Sian. It was in this wee Scottish city that Sian was born, where she grew up and was schooled … Continue reading to learn from the experience of others

Categories: Architecture, Family history, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: a scurvy antiquary such as I am, abandoned, Antiquary, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so, Cumberlege, Douglas Adams, Dron, Dron Hill, Dux, famous road forgotten, gate, gateway, Glenfrag, Hole Ousia, Human beings who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, in the footsteps of William Wallace, It is by living we learn, Last chance to see, most beautiful viewpoint, Ochils, old road, on what plan, Patrick Geddes, Perth, Peter Gordon, ploughman, preoccupied on every level, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Scotland, Shepherds, Sian Fiona Williams, small place full of learning, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Fair Maid of Perth, The Rebel Antiquary, Think global act local, time passes listen, to see what Scott saw, view, viewpoint, Vivendo Discimus, Wallace Road, Walter Scott, Walter Scott Sutherland, West Dron, West Dron Hill, West Dron Hill farm, William Wallace

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 26, 2022July 26, 2022

Go seek adventures

This question was asked in last week’s Sunday TIMES: Of course there is no complete data to refer to but it is thought that Don Quixote tops the list. It … Continue reading Go seek adventures

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Deeside Tales, Family history, gardens, Gilbert Farie, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Royal Deeside, 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, abandoned, Aberdeen, adventure, All the light we cannot see, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, AUDITIONS in PROGRESS, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, 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, Edinburgh, ethics, Everything is growing in our garden, 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, 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 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, 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, Mary Midgley, miguel de cervantes, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, 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, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter and Sian, Peter J Gordon, Peter's preoccupation with Wunderkammers, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, Rachel Fiona Gordon, reality, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, sapere aude, Scottish Poetry Library, Seaton park, Seroxat, shimmerin, Sian Fiona Williams, 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 gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, 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, through wastelands and crossroads, Tillybin, to be humbled, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, 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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