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By Hole Ousia Posted on August 7, 2021

There’s no blue like a Giotto blue

An old landmark of Bridge of Allan: a white bridge that was painted blue. For Caroline Stuart Clarke and her family. .

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, suicide, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Ali Smith, Allan Water, Antiquary, Badly Drawn Boy, blue bridge, Book of longing, bridge, Bridge of Allan, Caroline Stuart Clarke, drowned, drowning, Edmund de Waal, Elizabeth Frazer, films about bridge of Allan, Grief, Hawthorns, Hole Ousia, Is there nothing we could do', Kenilworth Road, Knockando, Knockando Manse, Leonard Cohen, Loss, Maria Jane Sinclair Clarke, Mossgrove, Old Landmark, old white Bridge, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Piano Theme, rebel antiquary, Rev John Clarke, Sam lee, Scotland, Social maverick, Stirlingshire, suicide, Ten Summers fade, The Antiquary, The Moon Shines Bright, The Rebel Antiquary, The White Road, There's no blue like a Giotto blue, This is not yesterday, VERTIGO, W G Sebald, white bridge, Winter

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020

Hybernaculum

Categories: Architecture, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Abbotsford, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, archivist, Bridge of Allan, C.P. Snow, collector, Edwin Morgan, ethics, F R leavis, Gabriel García Márquez, Hole Ousia, humanities, hybernaculum, Iain Crichton Smith, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Kathleen Jamie, Leonard Cohen, magpies, Mary Midgley, Montaigne, Mossgrove, Oswald Bates, Patrick Geddes, Penelope Fitzgerald, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, poetry, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Raymond Tallis, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, Sanctum Sanctorum, Scott Walker, Shooting the Past, Sian Fiona Williams, sightlines, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Tomas Transtömer, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Walter Scott

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 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 Hole Ousia Posted on July 20, 2019April 27, 2020

Discoveries at Girgenti

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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