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Tag: Mrs Picken

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 2, 2025October 2, 2025

The narrator is a paperboy

Hole ousia posts and films on paperboys and papergirls, please click here.  

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Bonaly, Colinton, courage to care, Edinburgh, kindness, Mrs Picken, newspaper boy, Omphalos films, paperboy, Peter John Gordon, The Rebel antiquary
By Hole Ousia Posted on September 12, 2024November 14, 2024

Early Morning News Controller

I was fortunate to grow up in Colinton. As soon as I was old enough, but still at school, I took on jobs. I worked as newspaper-boy for John Menzies,  … Continue reading Early Morning News Controller

Categories: Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Colinton, Mrs Picken, Omphalos films, Series II Land Rover
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 16, 2020November 28, 2024

Newspaper boy

his film is for newspaper girls. Newspaper boy: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. I grew up in Colinton. I was a paperboy … Continue reading Newspaper boy

Categories: Family history, Omphalos filmsTags: Bonaly, Colinton, Mrs Picken, newspaper boy, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 24, 2019December 2, 2024

apples on the sill of the window

A quote from ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W G Sebald. This is for Mrs Picken.

Categories: gardensTags: Mrs Picken, reading, The Rings of Saturn, W G Sebald
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 6, 2019December 3, 2024

she makes it kinder

I will never forget a dear old lady – long since dead. She is with me every day as I hear the news. She makes it kinder.

Categories: Family history, PoemsTags: Colinton, Edinburgh, kindness, Mrs Picken, newspaper boy
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 6, 2019December 3, 2024

It stopped me

Last week I came across the above gravestone in Stewarton Churchyard and it stopped me. Mrs Picken was an elderly widow, who day after day, year after year, left an … Continue reading It stopped me

Categories: Dementia, Family history, Folk worth talking about, Omphalos filmsTags: Colinton, Edinburgh, kindness, Mrs Picken, newspaper boy, Omphalos films, tombstone
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 17, 2019December 3, 2024

delivering news that passed me by

I was a paper-boy delivering news that passed me by every day. I was paper-boy to Mrs Picken: 36 Redford Drive. who left me an apple on her window-sill every … Continue reading delivering news that passed me by

Categories: Family history, PoemsTags: Bonaly, Colinton, Edinburgh, folk worth talking about, kindness, Mrs Picken, newspaper boy, Peter's poems
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 6, 2019December 3, 2024

Mrs Picken

Mrs Picken was an elderly widow, who day after day, year after year, left an apple on her window-sill for me as I delivered her daily paper. I have never … Continue reading Mrs Picken

Categories: Family history, Omphalos filmsTags: Bonaly, Colinton, Edinburgh, kindness, Mrs Picken, newspaper boy, Omphalos films
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