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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 February 4, 2021

Sensitive to social geography

Mossgrove, Sunday 31 January 2021: RSPB garden birdwatch [we had a little help from Luca, but he was kept inside, socially distant from the birds!]

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Antiquary, Big Garden birdwatch, blackbird, British birds, Chaffinch, coal tit, Dunnock Blue tit, garden, garden birds, House sparrow, Jackdaw, January 2021, Luca, magpie, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos filns, Peter Gordon, Pigeon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robin, RSPB, RSPB garden bird count, RSPB garden birdwatch, Scotland, sensitive to social geography, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, they sing their hearts out, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Winter watch

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 1, 2021February 4, 2021

RSPB garden birdwatch

Mossgrove, Sunday 31 January 2021: RSPB garden birdwatch [we had a little help from Luca, but he was kept inside, socially distant from the birds!]

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Antiquary, Big Garden birdwatch, blackbird, British birds, Chaffinch, coal tit, Dunnock Blue tit, garden, garden birds, House sparrow, Jackdaw, January 2021, Luca, magpie, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos filns, Peter Gordon, Pigeon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robin, RSPB, RSPB garden bird count, RSPB garden birdwatch, Scotland, sensitive to social geography, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, they sing their hearts out, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Winter watch

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 5, 2020June 5, 2020

A place in Scotland’s story

This is the current window display for the shop ‘COLLECTIONS’ on Henderson Street, Bridge of Allan. The shop is closed at present due to the Covid-19 pandemic. I am a … Continue reading A place in Scotland’s story

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Philosophy, Poems, This is Not yesterdayTags: A place in Scotland's story, a rain-faded notice pinned upon a gate, Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, COLLECTIONS, collector, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid19, ephemera, everyday, Graffiti, Henderson Street, Hole Ousia, images, Lockdown, magpie, Mossgrove, pandemic, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, poem, Poems, poet, rebel antiquary, shop, Social maverick, temporary art, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, windows, written in chalk

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