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By Hole Ousia Posted on Nov 12, 2019November 12, 2019

‘Nature’s Fashionable Lounge’

Today, I was [again] humbled by [another] happenstance reminder of how little I really know about the world that surrounds me! This reminder happened in the natural course of the … Continue reading ‘Nature’s Fashionable Lounge’

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 18th, 21st May 1947, 50th, Ageing is Truth, Airthrey, Albert Ernest Bayne, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Water, Allan Water cafe, Altered Images, Alva, And the old brass bed they bought together, Andrew Robert Gordon, Andy Murray, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, Bannockburn House, Blair Drummond, Blawlowan, Bologna, Borrowmeadow, Borrowmeadow farm, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - a history, Bridge of Allan Highland Games, Bristol, But I'll remember thee, Carse, Carse of lecropt, Chalybeate, Chalybeate pump, Chalybeate well, Charles Rogers, Classic car rally, Cleopatra's needle, Cleopatra's triangle, Constitution Street, COSTA, Craig Mair, David Livingstone, David Rutherfoord, David Rutherford, doctor, Dr Eric Dow, Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord, Dr W H Welsh Trust, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Dunblane, Eliza Black, Enlightenment, Family film, Fernfield, first Stirling marathon, fish and chips, Florence Nightingale, Gang Forward, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Great Scottish Tapestry, Greatest Reward, Hannah Ann Stirling, Heathershot, Henderson Street, Hercules, Hercules bear, Highland Games, Hole Ousia, Hydropathic, icecream, It is not down in any map, It is not down in any map true places never are, James McEwen, jeely piece, Jerah, Jessie lennox, Keir, King's village found, Kippenrait, Lecropt, Living to tell the Tale, Lord Kames, Malcolm Allan, Mauchline Belle, Mavisbank, menstrie Glen, Millad, Monumental Madness, Mossgrove, moving on, Museum Hall, mytholm, Nature's Fashionable Lounge, Nineveh fountain, non est mortale quod opto, NOTES, NOTES No. XXIV., Now through my window, Ochils, Olympic torch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, Orchard House, Part of, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Pathfoot, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, picnic, Rab Scott, Rabbie Burns, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, sampler, Sculpture, Sheriffmuir, Sheriffmuir Inn, Shooting the Past, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Sometimes history takes things into its own hands, Spa, SPA CLEAN, Spa Town, Spa town is one of the best places to live in Britain, Stirling, Stirling University, suicide, Sunnylaw, Susan Rutherford, Ten Summers fade, The Ageing Stone, The Altar of COSTA, The Antiquary, The blossomest blossom:, The brig that spans the Wharry, The Flight of the Heron, the million-petalled flower of being here, The owl parliament, the owl parliament of Scotland, The passing bell, The Rebel Antiquary, The Welsh Trust, The Wharry, The world's Best, there was an insistent present tenseness, time passes listen, two shadows in conversation, tyranny of the quantifiable, Ursine physiology, Victorian, Wallace Monument, Wally Mint, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks, Well House, wells, Westerton Drive, Wharry Glen, William Stirling-Maxwell, William Wallace, You think so much of yoursel

By Hole Ousia Posted on Sep 13, 2016November 26, 2017

It is not down in any map

Last week I went for a late evening walk along the Allan water with a friend of mine and my son Andrew. We saw Stevenson’s cave before arriving, in the … Continue reading It is not down in any map

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Albert Bayne, Allan Water, Bridge of Allan, Darn walk, Dunblane, Kippenross, Mill, Millad, Milladd, Moby Dick, Robert Louis Stevenson, Somme, Wharrie, Wharry, WWI

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