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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020June 12, 2022

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon 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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 6, 2017January 30, 2023

A ‘mytholm’

Ted Hughes described a ‘mytholm’ as meeting of streams. This film is about such a meeting. Where the Allan Water goes Forth. Mytholm: To play this film please click here … Continue reading A ‘mytholm’

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: (it is even conceivable) of some gravity to the world, A friendship in letters, a man of intelligence and strong feelings with a wide range of interests, a new way of seeing, alchemist, Allan Water, an old song, and histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, ASTROV, backward learner, backward reader, blossom, Bridge of Allan, Cammo House, Can't you hear that singing, Catriona, Catriona Gordon, Colinton, Cornton, Corntonvale, Crabbed Age and Youth, Cummy, David Balfour, Dig the grave and let me lie, Dr Peter Gordon, Epitome of current medical literature, Esher mausoleum, Essays on the enjoyment of the world, fascinated by the uneven surface of 'the self', films about bridge of Allan, Frenchified, George Balfour, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, he felt compelled to sit up long into the night 'toliing to leave a memory behind me', health became the language in which his family communicated, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, House of Shaws, It is by living we learn, J M Barrie, Jekyll and Hyde, Karen Strang, Kidnapped, Lighthouse, Lord Esher, Marginalia, Moatbrae House, Mossgrove, my older sister, mytholm, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, orchard, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, Peter Pan, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Reiver Forth, RLS, Robert Louis Stevenson, should you or should you not become an artist?, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Start it tonight, Stevenson habitually made marginal comments, Stevenson's alchemist, Stevenson's cave, Stirling Castle, storytelling, Strathallan pharmacy, Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes described a 'mytholm' as meeting of streams, Th wrong Box, the antquary, the boy learned to read quite late, The great theorem of the liveableness of life, The Hawes Inn, The Rebel Antiquary, the romantic and the realist battled, The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Treasure island, Two postcards from, Vivendo Discimus, waht to write about - the subject was always somehow himself, Walter Scott, We take sight at a condition in life and say that we have studied it, Where the Allan Water goes Forth, writer, writers

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 6, 2016January 27, 2023

Histories never end, but go on living in their consequences

A short film about Cammo. To play this short film please click here or on the image below: Histories never end, but go on living in their consequences: Diogenes was … Continue reading Histories never end, but go on living in their consequences

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: a modern ruin, Antiquary, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Cammo House, Dark Lady of Cammo, David Balfour, Diogenes, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, Films about Edinburgh, Gauch, Histories never end, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, House of Shaws, I want to be part of history, James Simpson, Kidnapped, Leonard Cohen, Modern Ruin, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, ruins, Social maverick, St Peter's Seminary, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, TLS, You want it darker

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 28, 2015January 22, 2023

“Fine in every last detail”

Mavisbank House has survived against all the odds. Today its future remains in doubt. Peter’s short films about Mavisbank House [please click on each image to play a different film] … Continue reading “Fine in every last detail”

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