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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 12, 2021

Secret of the Yew Tree

‘If we are on a path of initiation into the secrets of landscape, earthlore and healing, the yew tree can become a powerful heirophant.’ The Ormiston Yew The circular Yew … Continue reading Secret of the Yew Tree

Categories: gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1943, 700 year old layering Yew, a Miracle of Yew Regeneration, a modern ruin, abandoned, Abbotshall, Abercairney, Aberthuven, Adam and Eve, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander Moncrieffe, Alexander Naysmith, An ancient child, ancient, Andrew MacFarlane., Antiquary, Ardnamurchan, Argyll, Arm Chair, Arrochar, Auchendrane, Auchendrane yew, Ayrshire, bannister, Bernera, Berneray, Bienn a' Bhacaidh, Bienna Bhacaidh, Bilbliotheca Abscondita, Bower, brainlessness, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, castle, chapel of the Yew trees, child, circular yew, Clan Fraser, concentration camps, Condie, connection, Craigends, Craigends Yew, Crieff, Crookston castle, Culfargie, curves, Dalmellington, Dalserf, Dalserf parish Church, Dame Helen's castle, Dovecot, Dunaskin, Dunwich, Earlshall, East Lothian, Eccles Church Tower, Edinburgh, Evelyn Waugh, exploration, Fife, fire, Ford, formal, Fortingal, Fortingal Yew, Fortingall, Fortingall Yew, Fraser Clan, garden, gardesns, Gask, gate, gatepiers, gateposts, gateway, Geese, gentle gardener, Glasgow, Glenhurich, Graeme, Great Montrose, Grove, hares would yet breed on his hearthstone, headless, Hedge, hedging, heirophant, Helen Liston Hardie, Hermit, herring, Hole Ousia, How to stop time, humanity, I Vow, I Vow castle, I Vow Yew, Inchbrakie, Incorrigibly plural, island, It is by living we learn, James Joyce, Jehanne Mehta, Kate McNiven, Keirs castle, Kilneuair, Kirkcaldy, Laight castle, landcape architecture, landscape, Landscape Architecture, Leon Eisenberg, light, Lismore, Little Spartan, Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Lochan na h' Iubhraich, Lochawe, Lochnell, Lord Darnley, Loss, MacFarlane, Mansion, Margaret Mary Scott, Marquis of Montrose, Mary Queen of Scots, Matt Haig, Max Sebald, Maze, memory, mindlessness, MLA distinction, model, Monzie, Musaem Clausum, national Trust for Scotland, Nature, New Condie, Nigel Tranter, Oliphant, Omphalos, Omphalos films, painter, Patrick Geddes, Patrick Graeme, Paul Greenwood, Persecuting Raploch, Perthshire, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, poem, poet, poetry, Pollok House, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, Rabbie Burns, Raploch, rebel antiquary, Renfrewshire, ring, Robert the Bruce, Rockingham, Rockingham elephants, ruin, ruins, Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees, Scotland, Scull, Secret of the Yew Tree, sermons, silver darlings, Social maverick, Somerleyton, St Columba, St Columba's Yew, St Giles, St Moluag, stairs, stairway, Stenton, Stirling-Maxwell, taxus baccata, The Abbotshall Yew, The Antiquary, The Auchendrane Yew, The Brownie's Cell, the Chapel of the Yew Trees, the Crookston yew tree, The Culfargie Yew, The Elanvow Preservation Fund, The faded glories of his Clan, The Fraser Yew, The Gentle Gardener, The Giant's Garden, The Inchbrakie Yew, the largest Yew tree in Scotland, the lion of the secession churc, The little loch of the yew grove, the living hedge, The Monastery, the ormiston Yew, The Raploch Yew, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, The speaking hedge, The Wallace Yew, These are the hands, Thomas Browne, three castles, three sisters, Tomas Transtromer, topiary, village, Vivendo Discimus, W G Sebald, Walter Scott, When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree, William Hamilton, William Wallace, William Wordsworth, Winfried Georg Sebald, witch, Would you Adam and Eve it?, writer, WWII, Wyndeham Le strange, Yew, Yew hedge, Yew tree, Yew trees, Yews

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 3, 2021

BRAIN LOAN

Not far from Glenkindie, in remote Donside there is a marshy place known as ‘BRAIN LOAN’ BRAIN LOAN runs alongside Burny Gully. It so happens that my friend, Dr John … Continue reading BRAIN LOAN

Categories: Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Aberdeenshire, Antiquary, being and becoming, Brae of the Marsh, BRAIN LOAN, Burny Gully, Burnygully, Craigheedy Hill, Donside, Dr Flaxman, Dr John Flaxman, Dumfoonert Loon, Dylan thomas, EBM, evidence based medicine, friends, friendship, Gilbert Farie, Glenkindie, Haughton, Hole Ousia, humbled, hunched pharmacist, Incorrigibly plural, It is by living we learn, Little Spartan, Martin Wyllie, Mavisbank, Mindlessness and brainlessness in psychiatry, moss, mossy, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Philosophical workings and findings, philosophy, rebel antiquary, sapere aude, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes listen, Two Cultures, Vivendo Discimus

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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