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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 15, 2023November 16, 2023

Sheriffmuir Inn

This is Sheriffmuir Inn, as I recall it. Here, my Grumpa took me to visit to Hercules the bear. Here, with my family, I celebrated my 40th birthday. Here, I … Continue reading Sheriffmuir Inn

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1715, 1917, 6 sovereigns, a fallen monolith in a field, a modern ruin, A tin chest, a voyage through art and time, A9, abandoned, Adam Roy, Ageing is Truth, Albert Ernest Bayne, alcoholism, Alela Diane, Alexander Livingstone, Alexander McCall Smith, Ali Smith, All in my head, All that running, Allan Water, Allan Water cafe, Altered Images, Alva, Always summer, An essay on traffic, And the old brass bed they bought together, Andrew Robert Gordon, Andy Murray, Andy Robin, Antiquary, Archibald Gorrie, Architect, Argyll, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, aye, Balhaldie, Balmoral Crescent, Bannockburn House, Battle of Sheriffmuir, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, bear, Belle and Sebastian, best quality of Butter, Beyond the Strath, Biscuits, Bithergiese, Blackford, Blair Drummond, Blawlowan, Boat stone, Bonspiel, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Borrowmeadow, Borrowmeadow farm, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - a history, Bridge of Allan Highland Games, Brinckman, Broadley, Broadley farm, But I'll remember thee, Butcher, Buttergask, Carim Lodge, Carluke, Carse, Carse of lecropt, Carsebreck, Casulaties, Charles Rogers, Christa Wells, Classic car rally, Cleopatra's needle, Cleopatra's triangle, Constitution Street, Cornton, Coronavirus, COSTA, Covid-19, Covid19, Craig Mair, Cranberries, curlers, curling, curling is sweeping the nation, curling ponds, Dai and Eileen, David Livingstone, David Rutherfoord, David Rutherford, David Tobias Williams, Deborah Levy, doctor, Dr Eric Dow, Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord, Dr W H Welsh Trust, Dr Welsh Trust, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Drummond Morays, Dunblane, Dunblane Traditions, Dylan thomas, Edmund de Waal, Eileen Georgeson, Eliza Black, Emigre, Enlightenment, Exit Music, Fall, Family film, Family films, farm, Fernfield, fire, first Stirling marathon, fish and chips, Florence Nightingale, For the New intellectual, forgotten, Free Scotland, fruit-growing, Gamekeeper, Gang Forward, gardens, gareth williams, gathering stone, Gavin Millar, George Saunders, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Glasgow, Great Scottish Tapestry, Greatest Reward, Greenloaning, Gregory's Girl, grouse, gypsy, Hale Bopp, Hannah Ann Stirling, Heathershot, Henderson Street, Hercules, Hercules bear, Highland Games, Hole Ousia, Holme Hill, Holmehill, Holmehill House, Hugh Whyte, I couldn't love you more, I had a wild thought, I like it when you call me Mr Scott, I remember you, I sent her for Butter, I woke up in the night, Ice, icecream, illicit smuggling, IMPRINT [nearness of distance], In the language of Angels, In your eyes, infant death, It is not down in any map, It is not down in any map true places never are, Jacobites, James Ross, jeely piece, Jerah, Jessie lennox, Jessie Stevenson Lambert, John Berger, John Cullens, John Mayer, John Monteath, John Roy, Julian Barnes, Julie Fowlis, Julius Caesar, Kathleen Jamie, keep wondering, Keir, killed wounded died, King's village found, Kippenrait, Kirriemuir, Knowehead, Knowhead, Lairhill, Lecropt, Lisa Hannigan, Little Sparta, Living to tell the Tale, Lockdown, London Grammar, Lord Kames, Lost camera, lost village, love, Malcolm Allan, Margaret Mary Scott, Margaret Scott, Mauchline Belle, Mavisbank, medicine, Melville Jameson, menstrie Glen, Micah Gilbert, Michael Marra, Mill, Millad, Modern Ruin, Monumental Madness, Moss farm, Moss-side, Mossgrove, Moving Image Archive, moving on, murder, Museum Hall, My Body is a cage, My true country, mytholm, Nan Shepherd, New Zealand, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nineveh fountain, No fences, non est mortale quod opto, NOTES, NOTES No. XXIV., Now through my window, NZEF, Ochils, Olympic torch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, On thinking it over, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, orchard, Orchard House, P J Harvey, pandemic, Part of, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Pathfoot, Paul Buchanan, Paul Murton, People Ain’t No Good, people slip into art and are lost, Perth, Perth Concert Hall, Perthshire, Perthsire, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, picnic, Queen's park, Quoiggs, Quoigs, R and W Scott, Rab Scott, Rabbie Burns, Rachel Fiona Gordon, re-opening of Bridge of Allan camera Club, rebel antiquary, Redcoats, rickle of stanes, River Tay, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robin Hyde, Roundell, ruin, ruins, Rupi Kaur, sampler, Scotland, Sculpture, Series 2, Series II, Series II Land Rover, Sharon Van Etten, shepherd, Shera Muir, Sheriffmuir, Sheriffmuir Inn, Sherramoor, Sherramuir, shimmerin, Shooting Lodge, Shooting the Past, Show me the sun, Sian Fiona Williams, Side, side-by-side, Singing Street, Social maverick, Sometimes history takes things into its own hands, Spa, SPA CLEAN, spectators of absence, St Peter's Seminary, Stannin' Stane, Statue of Liberty, Steven Lindsay, still carries much of that early charm, Stirling, Stirling University, Stirlingshire, storms, suicide, Susan Rutherford, Susanna Clarke, sweeping the nation, Syde, Ten Summers fade, Terry Davies, The Ageing Stone, The Altar of COSTA, The Antiquary, the best foal, The blossomest blossom:, The brig that spans the Wharry, The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse, The Flight of the Heron, The Godwits fly, the million-petalled flower of being here, The Muckle wife o'Bithergirse, The New Intellectual, The owl parliament, the owl parliament of Scotland, The passing bell, The Rebel Antiquary, The roarin' game, The Roundel, the Shins, The short films on Sheriffmuir by Peter J. 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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 12, 2019February 22, 2023

‘Nature’s Fashionable Lounge’

Today, I was [again] humbled by [another] happenstance reminder of how little I really know about the world that surrounds me! This reminder happened in the natural course of the … Continue reading ‘Nature’s Fashionable Lounge’

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 18th, 21st May 1947, 50th, Ageing is Truth, Airthrey, Albert Ernest Bayne, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Water, Allan Water cafe, Altered Images, Alva, And the old brass bed they bought together, Andrew Robert Gordon, Andy Murray, Antiquary, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, Bannockburn House, Blair Drummond, Blawlowan, Bologna, Borrowmeadow, Borrowmeadow farm, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - a history, Bridge of Allan Highland Games, Bristol, But I'll remember thee, Carse, Carse of lecropt, Chalybeate, Chalybeate pump, Chalybeate well, Charles Rogers, Classic car rally, Cleopatra's needle, Cleopatra's triangle, Constitution Street, COSTA, Craig Mair, David Livingstone, David Rutherfoord, David Rutherford, doctor, Dr Eric Dow, Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr W H Welsh Trust, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Dunblane, Eliza Black, Enlightenment, Family film, Fernfield, first Stirling marathon, fish and chips, Florence Nightingale, Gang Forward, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Great Scottish Tapestry, Greatest Reward, Hannah Ann Stirling, Heathershot, Henderson Street, Hercules, Hercules bear, Highland Games, Hole Ousia, Hydropathic, icecream, It is not down in any map, It is not down in any map true places never are, James McEwen, jeely piece, Jerah, Jessie lennox, Keir, King's village found, Kippenrait, Lecropt, Living to tell the Tale, Lord Kames, Malcolm Allan, Mauchline Belle, Mavisbank, menstrie Glen, Millad, Monumental Madness, Mossgrove, moving on, Museum Hall, mytholm, Nature's Fashionable Lounge, Nineveh fountain, non est mortale quod opto, NOTES, NOTES No. XXIV., Now through my window, Ochils, Olympic torch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, Orchard House, Part of, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Pathfoot, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, picnic, Rab Scott, Rabbie Burns, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, sampler, Sculpture, Sheriffmuir, Sheriffmuir Inn, Shooting the Past, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Sometimes history takes things into its own hands, Spa, SPA CLEAN, Spa Town, Spa town is one of the best places to live in Britain, Stirling, Stirling University, suicide, Sunnylaw, Susan Rutherford, Ten Summers fade, The Ageing Stone, The Altar of COSTA, The Antiquary, The blossomest blossom:, The brig that spans the Wharry, The Flight of the Heron, the million-petalled flower of being here, The owl parliament, the owl parliament of Scotland, The passing bell, The Rebel Antiquary, The Welsh Trust, The Wharry, The world's Best, there was an insistent present tenseness, time passes listen, two shadows in conversation, tyranny of the quantifiable, Ursine physiology, Victorian, Wallace Monument, Wally Mint, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks, Well House, wells, Westerton Drive, Wharry Glen, William Stirling-Maxwell, William Wallace, You think so much of yoursel

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 25, 2017February 1, 2023

Vigilando

This is a film about Angus John Campbell, the 20th hereditary Captain of Dunstaffnage castle, near Oban: VIGILANDO: To play this short film please click here or on the image … Continue reading Vigilando

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 20th hereditary Captain of Dunstaffnage castle, Andrew Greig, Angus John Campbell, Antiquary, Argyll, castle, Compton Mackenzie, Dr Peter Gordon, Dunstaffnage, Dunstaffnage castle, fire, Folk worth talking about, hereditary Captain, Highland Games, Hole Ousia, Oban, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robert the Bruce, Rolls Royce, Social maverick, Stone of Destiny, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, vigilando, Whisky Galore, whose dress sense is unparalleled

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