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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Jul 20, 2019July 20, 2019

Girgenti: footnotes and forget-me-nots

Introducing Girgenti At Girgenti you can still hear two girls sing. Girgenti followed Paestum From Thimble Row to Discoveries:

Categories: Architecture, Medical Education, Medical humanities, NHS Scotland, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, Two culturesTags: 2004, 2018, 60+ pink, A S Byatt, alcohol, Amalfi, Andrew, Andrew Robert Gordon, Architecture, Armageddon Days, Ayrshire, beautiful summer, Belle and Sebastian, Blue sky day, Bridge of Allan, butterflies, C Duncan, Cage the Elephant, Captain John Cheape, Cesare Pavese, Charles Dickens, Cold cold cold, comet seekers, Cpatain, Death Cab for Cutie, Doctoring in a whisky-injured nation, Dr Iain Smith, Dr Thora hands, drunk, drunkard, drunkards, Fox in the snow, garden, Girgenti, Girgenti House, Girgenti tower, girl of seventeen sent to an inebriates home, Godwits, Hale Bopp, Henry Logan, Herakles Temple, History of medicine, Hole Ousia, Iain Crichton Smith, Iain Smith, Ian Brown, Ian Smith, illegitimate, Inebriate, Inebriates, Into my arms, Isabella Thomson, John Cheape, John Macmurray, Judith Kerr, Julian Barnes, kindness, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Drabble, Medical education, medical humanities, memory, Mossgrove, Mrs Picken, My true country, n: The medical response to the "alcohol question" in Scotland, Nabokov, Napoleon, Napoleonic wars, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Old Harry, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paestum, Patrick Geddes, Patrick M Mclaughlin, Paul Buchanan, Perth, Peter J Gordon, philosophy, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, prostitute, Rachel, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Random Rules, RESPONDING TO DRUNKENNESS IN SCOTTISH SOCIETY:, Robin Hyde, Scotland, she made it kinder, Sian, Sian Fiona Williams, Silver Jews, social determinants, Speak, Speak Memory, Stewarton, syphilis, Temple, The Antiquary, The Boy with The Arab Strap, the captain died, the Libertines, The past and the Pending, The Rebel Antiquary, the Shins, the sky is not little, The The, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Thesis 1389, Thimble Row, This is not yesterday, Thora hands, Time for heroes, Tomas Transtromer, twinkle twinkle little star, Two Cultures, Two cultures 2004, two girls sing, Two Girls Singing, Vladamir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabakov, who followed who, William Carlos Williams, William King, wrapped up in books, Yann Martel

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Jul 20, 2019

Discoveries at Gigenti

This is my final film on Girgenti:

Categories: Architecture, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, Two culturesTags: 2004, 2018, 60+ pink, A S Byatt, alcohol, Amalfi, Andrew, Andrew Robert Gordon, Architecture, Armageddon Days, Ayrshire, beautiful summer, Belle and Sebastian, Blue sky day, Bridge of Allan, butterflies, C Duncan, Cage the Elephant, Captain John Cheape, Cesare Pavese, Charles Dickens, Cold cold cold, comet seekers, Cpatain, Death Cab for Cutie, Doctoring in a whisky-injured nation, Dr Iain Smith, Dr Thora hands, drunk, drunkard, drunkards, Fox in the snow, garden, Girgenti, Girgenti House, Girgenti tower, girl of seventeen sent to an inebriates home, Godwits, Hale Bopp, Henry Logan, Herakles Temple, History of medicine, Hole Ousia, Iain Crichton Smith, Iain Smith, Ian Brown, Ian Smith, illegitimate, Inebriate, Inebriates, Into my arms, Isabella Thomson, John Cheape, John Macmurray, Judith Kerr, Julian Barnes, kindness, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Drabble, Medical education, medical humanities, memory, Mossgrove, Mrs Picken, My true country, n: The medical response to the "alcohol question" in Scotland, Nabokov, Napoleon, Napoleonic wars, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Old Harry, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paestum, Patrick Geddes, Patrick M Mclaughlin, Paul Buchanan, Perth, Peter J Gordon, philosophy, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, prostitute, Rachel, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Random Rules, RESPONDING TO DRUNKENNESS IN SCOTTISH SOCIETY:, Robin Hyde, Scotland, she made it kinder, Sian, Sian Fiona Williams, Silver Jews, social determinants, Speak, Speak Memory, Stewarton, syphilis, Temple, The Antiquary, The Boy with The Arab Strap, the captain died, the Libertines, The past and the Pending, The Rebel Antiquary, the Shins, the sky is not little, The The, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Thesis 1389, Thimble Row, This is not yesterday, Thora hands, Time for heroes, Tomas Transtromer, twinkle twinkle little star, Two Cultures, Two cultures 2004, two girls sing, Two Girls Singing, Vladamir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabakov, who followed who, William Carlos Williams, William King, wrapped up in books, Yann Martel

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