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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2021

Stravaiging need not be lonely

Peter’s short films on gates and gateways [please click on each image to play a different film]: A rain-faded notice pinned upon a gate: G A T E W A … Continue reading Stravaiging need not be lonely

Categories: Architecture, Deeside Tales, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A lot of hot air, a rain-faded notice pinned upon a gate, Aberdeen Medical School, Airth, Antiquary, Architect, balloon, Becoming a film of sorts, Ben Okri, Bridge of Allan, Cabrach, Carnock House, Carnoustie, Carubber's Manse, Casulaties, Class of 1990, Corehouse, distressed furniture, do not block entrance way, Duncan Brown, Earl of Panmure, East Silvermills lane, Edinburgh, Edmonstone estate, Edmonstone house, Falcon Hall, Family films, Feist, Folly, Fossaway, gardens, gate-posts, gatekeeper, Gatekeeper [summer edition], gatepiers, gateposts, gates, gateway to Saturdays, gateways, Gauch, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Henry Raeburn, Hillhead Halls, Hold Everything Dear, Hole Ousia, how many gateways revisited, I scribbled in chalk "The temple of decision" on the old gatepost. It will have washed off in yesterday's rain. I also scribbled in chalk "Si monumentum queries, In search of lost time, Iron gate sensitivity, James Gowans, Kilmarnock, Lacunar Strevelinense, Ladykirk House, life is a zoo, Lincoln in the Bardo, Lion Gate, Little France, Lord Panmure, love, Marcel Proust, medicine, memory in its pause, Morningside, Mossgrove, musing he walked out through the entrance gate, My true country, Napier Road, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Pagoda, pandemic, Panmure Estate, Panmure House, Paris, Paul Buchanan, Peter Gordon, Reaching out for you, rebel antiquary, Robert Scott Moncrieff, Rockville, ruins, Scott-Moncrieff, Sian Fiona Williams, Sighthill Cemetery, Silvermills, Snow Patrol, Social maverick, stravaiging, stravaiging need not be lonely, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Survives only in a pair of gate posts far away, The Antiquary, the gateway to saturdays removed, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Think I'll go outside, Two Cultures, University of Aberdeen, Walter Scott, West Lodge, [summer edition]

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

More of a journey than a gateway

I have been scraping our rusty and paint-flaked garden gate. This gate dates back to 1880, the same date as our house. I wonder how many folk have opened and … Continue reading More of a journey than a gateway

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A lot of hot air, a rain-faded notice pinned upon a gate, Aberdeen Medical School, Airth, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Architect, balloon, Becoming a film of sorts, Ben Okri, Bridge of Allan, Carnock House, Carnoustie, Carubber's Manse, Casulaties, Class of 1990, distressed furniture, Duncan Brown, Earl of Panmure, East Silvermills lane, Edinburgh, Edmonstone estate, Edmonstone house, Falcon Hall, Family films, Feist, Finding Cimbrone, Folly, gardens, gate-posts, gatekeeper, Gatekeeper [summer edition], gatepiers, gateposts, gates, gateway to Saturdays, gateways, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Henry Raeburn, Hillhead Halls, Hold Everything Dear, Hole Ousia, how many gateways revisited, I scribbled in chalk "The temple of decision" on the old gatepost. It will have washed off in yesterday's rain. I also scribbled in chalk "Si monumentum queries, In search of lost time, Iron gate sensitivity, James Gowans, Kilmarnock, Lacunar Strevelinense, Ladykirk House, Lincoln in the Bardo, Lion Gate, Little France, Lord Panmure, love, Marcel Proust, Margaret Scott, medicine, More of a journey than a gateway, Morningside, Mossgrove, musing he walked out through the entrance gate, my mum, My mum for reading me so many Ladybird books, My true country, Napier Road, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Pagoda, pandemic, Panmure Estate, Panmure House, Paris, Paul Buchanan, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Reaching out for you, rebel antiquary, Robert Scott Moncrieff, Rockville, ruins, Sian Fiona Williams, Sighthill Cemetery, Silvermills, Snow Patrol, Social maverick, stravaiging need not be lonely, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Survives only in a pair of gate posts far away, The Antiquary, the gateway to saturdays removed, The Medicine is in Aberdeen, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Think I'll go outside, Two Cultures, University of Aberdeen, Walter Scott, West Lodge, [summer edition]

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020June 12, 2022

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon Albarn, David Livingstone, David Peters, dawdle to sniff the beauty of the world, Deborah Levy, designed for use in a rebellion, distressed furniture, Do not say we have nothing, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Samuel Brown, Due North, Dunira, Dunira's Lost garden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh half-marathon, Edinburgh marathon, Edinburgh Zoo, Eyre Terrace, Falcon Hall, Films about Edinburgh, films on Edinburgh, Fletcher Norton, Florence Nightingale, Follow Me, Francis Seymour Haden, Freedom to speak up, From Scotland with Love, Full of Energy, Gabriel García Márquez, garden, gardener, gateways, Geoffrey Jellicoe, George Saunders, Gilmerton House, Girdwood, Glasgow, Go North, Half of a yellow sun, Hatton, Hawkhill, Hawkhill House, Henry Dundas, Hermits and Termits, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, House of Shaws, I had a project as a tiny boy, Indy-Ref, Iron gate sensitivity, IS WASHDAY WORTHWHILE?, It is by living we learn, James Clerk Maxwell, James Georgeson, Jessie lennox, Joan Bakewell, Joan Bakewell with Richard Holloway: Moving On, John Berger, John Lanchester, John Wilson, Joseph Gerrald, keepsake, King George IV Park, Kipps, labour of omission, Leaving Alexandria, Left-behind gateway, Liberty, lion rampant, Lost Edinburgh: The Royal Patent Gymnasium, magically reached out, Mary Brooksbank, Maurice Margarot, Mavisbank, meet you at the statue, meet you at the statue in an hour, Methven Simpson, MLA distinction, Modern Athenians, Monument to the Political Martyrs', Morningside, moving on, Mrs Picken, Muriel Spark, Murrayfield, Murrayfield stadium, mushrooms, Napier Road, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], New Town, newspaper boy, Nick Cave, Nobel prize, Nooks and Crannies, Nor' loch, North Loch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, ORPHAN Hospital [ Site of], P J Harvey, Pale Fire, Partick Geddes, Past and present, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Patrick Geddes, Patrick Neil, Patriothall, Patriothall Laundry, patriotic, Paul Buchanan, PE1493, Penelope Fitzgerald, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Peter's films on Edinburgh, Physic Garden, Pipe Lane, Pipe Lane Public Toilets, Platform 11, Playhouse Close, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Polaris, Police Boxes, Political Martyrs, Prince Street, Princes Street Gardens, Prodrums, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, Richard Holloway, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Sibbald, Rockville, Rodney Tunnel, Rose, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Patent Gymnasium, rugby, Saughton, Scotland, Scotland Street, Scotland Street Station, Scotland Street tunnel, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish Government, Scottish National Exhibition, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish Parliament, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Square, she said, She said nothing and she shone, Sian Fiona Williams, Silvermills, smash out into the sunlight, Smash out into the sunshine, Social maverick, Spurtle, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's House, St Andrew's Square, St Leonard's Improvement Scheme, statue, steam laundry, Stockbridge, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Sylvia Plath, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The cost of living, The friends of liberty, the gate of Angels, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, the laundry problem, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal Patent Gymnasium, the scandal of the century, The Scottish National Exhibition, the texture of time, The Ticking of Two Clocks, The wall, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, This plethora of detail, thistle, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Thomas Transtömer, time passes listen, Tiny Desk Concerts, Tom Jones, Tomas Transtromer, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Umberto Eco, Vivendo Discimus, Vladimir Nabokov, Waiting for the last bus, Walter Scott, Warriston Cemetery, Waverley, weather bomb, Well tempered Garden, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh, [in its ending] Scotland Street Station

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 26, 2016August 18, 2022

Survives as a pair of Gate-posts

Next time you got to Edinburgh Zoo with your children or grandchildren stop at the entrance gates and look up. You will see a pair of Falcons. This film is … Continue reading Survives as a pair of Gate-posts

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Batholomew, Brideshead Revisited, Edinburgh Zoo, Falcon Hall, Falcons, labeling, Labelling, Morningside, mysogyny, teasing the great

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