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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 18, 2022May 18, 2022

French Braid

I have just read French Braid, the latest novel by Anne Tyler. Her creative work, wonderfully observant and ‘seemingly’ understated, never fails to move me.

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: 2021, a paintbrush no thicker than an eyelash, Anne Tyler, chest of drawers, complicated dialogues with his bear, families, family, French Braid, Garrett family, Hale Bopp, individual third-person narrative, it was an expressive silence, Life magazine, Mercy, Novel, Robin, time passes listen, we met yesterday said the room

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 13, 2022May 13, 2022

a year ago

A year ago I had a short stay in Aberdeenshire. It felt like returning home. May 2021: I had a short break in Aberdeenshire staying in the Aberdeen Arms, Tarland … Continue reading a year ago

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 10th Earl of Crawford, 2.5, 3000 feet, 3000 ft, 44 Midstocket Road, a gate, A Man Unknown, a right-of-way dispute, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, A Thousand chances, a tomb with a view, A vast telescope will create a movie of the universe, a year ago, abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Arms, Aberdeen Arms Hotel, Aberdeenshire, Aboyne, Acanthus, acanthus leaf, acanthus leaves, Admiral Fallow, Alexander Robb, an electric razor: donated, Angus, Antionetta, Antiquary, ARCADIA, as that swift eternity ended, astra castra numen lumen munimen, Ballintomb, Belle and Sebastian, Beyond the Strath, Blackford Observatory, bleet, bleeting, body found on Lecht, Body snatchers, body snatching, Braid Hill Observatory, Bridge of Allan, Cairngorms, Charles 10th Marquis of Huntly, Charles Brand Ltd, Charles Gordon, Charles Soutar, Chasing the sun, Circus Delrium, Class of 1990, climber, climbing, collapse of the Mortlich Monument, comet seekers, commercial forestry, contexto, Corgarff, Deborah Levy, Demolished, Desecration of the Earl of Crawford's tomb, Dexter Britain, dissection. Aberdeen Medical School, Distant Skies, Distant Sky, Doric, doric pillars, Dr Peter Gordon, Drain, Duguid, Dunecht, Dunecht body snatching, Dunecht House, Dunecht observatory, Dunecht Outrage Recalled, Dux, Earl of Crawford, Earl of Crawford's Body stolen, electric razor, fascination of absence, film, Films about ruins, Fort, gateway, General Scipio, George Saunders, Gibbie McIntosh, Gilber Farie, Glenkindie, gnarled oaks, Hale Bopp, Helen Jane Stewart Duguid, Hilary Mantel, Hole Ousia, house painter, Hugh Munro, Huntly, I am mindful of human weakness, Iron cross, James Dyas Davidson, James Ross, John Glennie, Julian Barnes, ladder, lambs, Latin, lecht, Lecht body found, Lindertis, Lindsay, Lindsay crest, Locherie, Lochery, Lochrie, Logie Coldstone, Lord Lindsay, Mantel Pieces, Margaret Cruickshank, Marks & Spencers, Medical Student, Monument, Mortlich Hill, Mortlich Monument, Mortlich obelisk, mountain, mountains, Mrs Scotland, Munro's, Munro-bagging, Mutual Improvement Society, Nabob, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, November 1912, oblelisk, Observatory, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, On the level, Oor big braw cosmos, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Peer's body that was stolen, Peter Gordon, Peter Ross, poacher, poem, Poem six, Poems, poet, poetry, portico, Punic War, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Rachel's scarf, ransom, Rat catcher, Real Estate, Rebecca Pidgeon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, ruins, Sandwiches, Scipio, Scotland, Scotland's peaks named after him, Sculpture, sheep, sheep amongst the ruins, shepherd, Sir Hugh Munro, skiing, sleepwalking, Snooker, snow storm, Social maverick, Social subjects, South Milton, South Milton cottage, Spanish Oaks, St Nicholas Street, Strathdon, Student Union, Tarland, telescope, The Antiquary, The Atmosphere, The Lass o' the Lecht, The Rebel Antiquary, The stars my camp, The stars my Camp [9111212], Thousand Chances, Tillybin, time passes listen, to the hills, Tollafraick, universe, Unknown man, ut per vias aeris, vaga ferus avis, vagrant, vermin killer, walking, We live between the microscope and the telescope, whaup, whaups, woodland

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 12, 2022

They fell for us

These short films by Peter recall those who fell for us in wars [please click on each image to play a different short film]: Between two black lines in the … Continue reading They fell for us

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Poems, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1715, 1917, Adam Roy, Alastair John Greville Murray, Albert Bayne, Albert Edward Bayne, alculated and condoned slaughter of human beings, Alexander Livingstone, Alexander Stevenson, Allan Water, an utterance, Antiquary, Argyll, Auchinhard, Balhaldie, battle, Battle of Sheriffmuir, battles, Between two black lines in the evening paper, Bridge of Allan, by his mother, Darn walk, Ellemhaugh, Exit Music, fell for us, gathering stone, Gawaine Baillie, Glenour, Glenover, Hale Bopp, Harry Patch, he sees what other people don't, Hole Ousia, is it time itself that we mourn, It is not down in any map, It is not down in any map true places never are, Jacobites, Jawhills, John Hyslop Gracie, Just for one day, Last Fighting Tommy, Lost camera, Millad, Milladd, New Zealand, NZEF, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Perthshire, Peter J Gordon, Polkemmet, Polmaise, Private George Scott, rebel antiquary, remembrance, remembrance day, rickle of stanes, ruin, ruins, Scottish Borders, Series II, Series II Land Rover, Sheriffmuir, Sheriffmuir Inn, Sherramoor, Sherramuir, Side, Singing Street, Slamannan, Social maverick, soldiers, Somme, Steven Lindsay, Stirling, storms, Syde, The Antiquary, The Godwits fly, The Rebel Antiquary, There he dies, They fell for us, unknown soldier, Vivendo Discimus, war, war diary, West Lothian, William Yeats Stevenson, wrong side of the door, WWI, WWII, You're gonna live forever in me, young men

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 10, 2022March 11, 2022

parallel possibilities

A short film on Scottish Borders knitwear manufacturer Peter Scott & Company, Hawick: a – l i t t l e – of – Peter’s – world: To play parallel … Continue reading parallel possibilities

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, This is Not yesterdayTags: Antiquary, Belle and Sebastian, Bridge of Allan, Free Scotland, Hale Bopp, Hawick, Hole Ousia, I like it when you call me Mr Scott, James Ross, Knitwear, Margaret Mary Scott, Mossgrove, Moving Image Archive, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Peter Scott, Peter Scott & Company, Rab Scott, rebel antiquary, Scottish Borders, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, There's too much Love, time passes listen, Vivendo Discimus, woolens

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