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Tag: Margaret Scott

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 3, 2020November 29, 2024

BE BRIEF

This frontpage advert featured in several Scottish newspapers in June 1943. This was during WWII and in the very month that my mother was born here in Bridge of Allan. … Continue reading BE BRIEF

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family historyTags: Andrew + Rachel, Constance Scott, Margaret Scott, Peter Scott-Gordon
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 17, 2020November 30, 2024

the texture of time

This film represents a little of my visit to Edinburgh on the 6th July 2020. The texture of time: To play this short film please click here or on the … Continue reading the texture of time

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos filmsTags: Bagpuss, Covid-19, Edinburgh, Margaret Scott, Omphalos films, pandemic, Princes Street Gardens, Vladimir Nabokov
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 29, 2019December 2, 2024

A day out

Yesterday I had a lovely day out with my mum and my older sister. The sun was shining and we followed the coastal route to North Berwick. It was braw … Continue reading A day out

Categories: Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Catriona, Margaret Scott, walled gardens
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 26, 2019December 2, 2024

“was really quite radical . . .”

It is wonderful to read in the Herald that £100,000 has been set aside to keep Scotland’s auldest library going. I have visited Innerpeffray library with Sian and also with … Continue reading “was really quite radical . . .”

Categories: Omphalos films, Scotland, Two culturesTags: Catriona, Libraries, Margaret Scott, Omphalos films, Peter + Sian, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on September 22, 2019December 2, 2024

Port Edgar

Yesterday, we were at a birthday celebration at SCOTTS in Port Edgar. My wee sister Gillian will be fifty in December and her husband Richie is fifty this Tuesday. Also … Continue reading Port Edgar

Categories: Family history, This is Not yesterdayTags: Catriona, Granny, Margaret Scott, Peter + Sian, Rachel
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 23, 2019December 3, 2024

half-tingle, half-tickle

My mother provided wonderful birthday parties for all her children.  Such that I still half-tingle and half-tickle with the memory of childhood birthday parties.

Categories: This is Not yesterdayTags: Bonaly, childhood, Margaret Scott
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 19, 2019December 3, 2024

notes between the notes

Dandie Dinmont (Rehearsals, June 2019) For Sandy and Tom. Dandie Dinmont – World premiere: To play this short film please click here or on the image above Further short films … Continue reading notes between the notes

Categories: Family history, ScotlandTags: Alexander McCall Smith, Dandie Dinmont, Granny, Margaret Scott, Omphalos films, Peter Scott-Gordon, Rebel antiquary, Scottish Borders, Walter Scott
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 6, 2019December 3, 2024

‘Dream come true’

This film is about Moatbrae House, Dumfries: the house and garden that inspired J M Barrie to write Peter Pan. It has been restored as a story-telling centre. Moatbrae was … Continue reading ‘Dream come true’

Categories: Architecture, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, ScotlandTags: Dumfriesshire, Granny, Henry Gordon, J M Barrie, Margaret Scott, Omphalos films, Peter Pan, storytelling

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