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By Hole Ousia Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

A letter to Dr Flaxman

Yesterday I sent this ‘letter’ to my friend Dr Flaxman:

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2021, A friendship in letters, and colours are drama, and there in the doorway was the little boy with a worried face, Antiquary, BREXIT, Burny Gully, Burnygully, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Dr Flaxman, Dr John Flaxman, Edinburgh Printmakers, friendship, Gilbert Farie, Hole Ousia, J M Barrie, let us continue to inscribe our little bits of tales, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, Lockdown, Mind the Gap, NEW RULES ARE HERE, Novel approach to pandemic, Now and Then, pandemic, Peter Pan, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, second to the right and straight on till morning, Shuggie Bain, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, There's no blue like a Giotto blue, we were very sensitive about colours at the time, Your Inner Hedgehog

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2021

Who owns the land?

This image, as printed in Scotland on Sunday, 21 March 2021, returned my thoughts to the Cabrach, and a series of films that I made long ago:

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1854, a modern ruin, A pocket book [found in Cabrach, a scurvy antiquary such as I am, a vulgar eloquence, abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, actual or potential attitudes, actual or potential selves, Aldunie, Alexander McCall Smith, and feeling the only compass in life, Annalena McAfee, Antiquary, Architecture, Arts, Badly Drawn Boy, bank, beautiful summer, between the scavenger and the philosopher, Blackwater Lodge, Blackwater Shooting Lodge, body, brain, Buck, Built on the Clyde, Bundle and Go, Bursary, Cabrach, Cabrach Post Office, Cabrach Shooting lodge, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Can you unfeel that, Centenarian, Correction Wynd, Craighall castle, cut-in-half, Dauch, death, dialect, Distance and Memory, Distant Sky, divide, divides, Doric, duthchas, Easy Love, family history, farm, Fascaray, films on the Cabrach, Flight of ideas, For truly she is Nature's gentlewoman, frae weans to auld wans, Gaelic, Gamekeeper, gate, gateway, Gauch, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Gordon bursary, gripped by an intense nostalgia for the present, hairt, Hale Bopp, Hame, he had loved maps since he was a boy, heart, history lessons - we had been taught the big facts not the minor, Hole Ousia, Home for little children, I am part of all that I have met, I was free I was affronted by freedom, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian McEwan, If there could be a name, Intensely Local, island, It is by living we learn, James Law, James Ross, Little Sparta, Lordism, Lordism impoverishes the land, magpie, Mary Law, mind, Modern Ruin, Morbus Fascariensis, mountains, murder, My notebook will be better than a doctor, Nan Shepherd, objective, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Ou Phrontis, Paget's disease, Patrick Geddes, Peter and Sian, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon found a pocketbook, Peter Gordon Law, Peter J Gordon, Piano Theme, poet in a landscape, poetry and identity, Poor Old Love, Poor Old Tired Horse, post office, postmistress, Prospects bright for 'Twelfth', Queen Victoria, rainbow, rebel antiquary, Rhynie, Robert Gordon, ruin, ruins, Science, Scotland, Scots, She gangs in brawness, Shenval, shooting, Sian Fiona Williams, Silver darling, Social maverick, St Peter's Seminary, Straloch, subjective, The Antiquary, The Blossoms, The Cabrach Tragedy, the outdoors brought a sense of proportion, the places that loom large in our lives, The present order is the disorder of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The stories of a small glen, there really was no hurry. I was going nowhere. Nowhere but here, These are the hands, This is not yesterday, to be humbled, Two Cultures, un-scottish style, Vivendo Discimus, watergaw, we have no record of the poet's reaction when he opened the door, Wind farm, write about love, writer, writers, WWI, your far dispatches bring remoteness nea

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

Tak tent o’ time

In Under Milkwood we are reminded in hairt-beat-words/sounds that ‘TIME PASSES. LISTEN. TIME PASSES’. Keir Home Farm:

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A smothering lack of focus, abandoned, Allan Water, Antiquary, Archibald Stirling, Archie Stirling, Bridge of Allan, churchyard, David Stirling, Diana Rigg, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Dunblane, Elbow, Gang Forward, gentle gardener, Guy Garvey, Hannah Ann Stirling, Hannah Stirling, Hole Ousia, In the beginning, Keir, Keir Home farm, King's village found, Lecropt, Lecropt and Larger Scotland, Lecropt: Ten Summers Fade, Little Sparta, Mossgrove, non est mortale quod opto, old Lecropt, old Lecropt Churchyard, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, pollock House, Rachael Atlanta Stirling, Rachael Stirling, rebel antiquary, remote yet near, Row hill, ruin, ruins, SAS, Social maverick, statue, Stirling, Stirlings of Keir, Tak tent o' time, Ten Summers fade, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, This is not yesterday, Under Milk Wood, William Stirling-Maxwell

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 1, 2021

The centre was elsewhere

The latest bit of ‘Little Spartan’ garden art.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A friendship in letters, Antiquary, betwixt-and-between, Big Ted, Bridge of Allan, garden, Hermit's Hoose, Hole Ousia, J M Barrie, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, Mossgrove, Peter Gordon, potting shed, R L Stevenson, rebel antiquary, shed, Social maverick, The Antiquary, the centre was elsewhere, The Rebel Antiquary

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