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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 15, 2023November 16, 2023

Sheriffmuir Inn

This is Sheriffmuir Inn, as I recall it. Here, my Grumpa took me to visit to Hercules the bear. Here, with my family, I celebrated my 40th birthday. Here, I … Continue reading Sheriffmuir Inn

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1715, 1917, 6 sovereigns, a fallen monolith in a field, a modern ruin, A tin chest, a voyage through art and time, A9, abandoned, Adam Roy, Ageing is Truth, Albert Ernest Bayne, alcoholism, Alela Diane, Alexander Livingstone, Alexander McCall Smith, Ali Smith, All in my head, All that running, Allan Water, Allan Water cafe, Altered Images, Alva, Always summer, An essay on traffic, And the old brass bed they bought together, Andrew Robert Gordon, Andy Murray, Andy Robin, Antiquary, Archibald Gorrie, Architect, Argyll, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, aye, Balhaldie, Balmoral Crescent, Bannockburn House, Battle of Sheriffmuir, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, bear, Belle and Sebastian, best quality of Butter, Beyond the Strath, Biscuits, Bithergiese, Blackford, Blair Drummond, Blawlowan, Boat stone, Bonspiel, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Borrowmeadow, Borrowmeadow farm, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - 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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 3, 2022March 20, 2023

Wintering wildfowl populations

In 2014 I visited Carsebreck curling pond. It is a very special place now populated by wintering wildfowl rather than people. I made a film but was never truly happy … Continue reading Wintering wildfowl populations

Categories: Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: a voyage through art and time, air balloon, Ali Smith, Antiquary, Bonspiel, Carsebreck, Christa Wells, curlers, curling, curling is sweeping the nation, curling ponds, Deborah Levy, Dr Peter Gordon, February 2022, forgotten, his year I have made another film about Carsebreck, Hole Ousia, Ice, IMPRINT [nearness of distance], In 2014 I visited Carsebreck curling pond, In your eyes, John Berger, Nan Shepherd, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paul Murton, Perthshire, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, rebel antiquary, ruin, Scotland, Social maverick, Stirlingshire, sweeping the nation, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The roarin' game, Vladimir Nabokov, Wintering wildfowl populations

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2021March 20, 2023

Alive in the river of light

Peter’s films about rivers and streams [please click on each image to play a different film]: The brig that spans the Wharry: Lycidas [Lendalfoot]: The Devil’s pulpit: He spoke like … Continue reading Alive in the river of light

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1626, 1686, Adam Nicolson, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander Peden, Alive in the river of light, Antiquary, Argyll, Aspects, Auchincloich, Ayrshire, Azeleas, Bach, Bass Rock, Beyond the Strath, bridge, Bridge of Allan, burn, burns, Constance Scott, Covenanter, Devil's Pulpit, Doune, Dr Peter Gordon, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Dunblane, Edinburgh, Finnich Glen, glen, Glenluce, Glenover, Glenure, Hale Bopp, He spoke like a torrent, Hole Ousia, Kilmadock, Kilmadock Churchyard, Kippenrait, Lanrick, Lark Ascending, Lendalfoot, Lochawe, Lycidas, memory, Motet, Nan Shepherd, New Luce, Omphalos, Omphalos films, orchard, Outlander, Paul Weller, Peden's mask, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Peter's films about rivers, Peter's films about rivers and streams, picnics, poet, prisoner, Prophet, Prophet Peden, Psalm 100, Rab Scott, rebel antiquary, Reverend, Reverend Alexander Peden, river, River Allan, River Teith, rivers, ruin, ruins, Scotland, Sher, Sheriffmuir, Social maverick, streams, Stronmilchan, suicide, Sweet peas, Ted Hughes, teddy, The Antiquary, The brig that spans the Wharry, The Deil's pulpit, the little things that count, The Quarry Wood, The Rebel Antiquary, Thorburn Road, Tower of Glenstrae, Vaughn Williams, water of tig, Wharrie, Wharry, wig, with heart as gentle for distress

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 5, 2021March 20, 2023

The Cabrach [a series of short films]

A series of short films on the Cabrach [click on an image and a short film will play]:

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1854, a modern ruin, A pocket book [found in Cabrach, A pocket book(found in Cabrach 1854), A series of short films on the Cabrach, a vulgar eloquence, abandoned farm, actual or potential attitudes, actual or potential selves, Alexander McCall Smith, All that is no longer living, Annalena McAfee, Antiquary, Architecture, Auchmair, Badly Drawn Boy, bank, barn owl, beautiful summer, Blackwater Lodge, Blackwater Shooting Lodge, Buck, Built on the Clyde, Bundle and Go, Burnygully, Cabrach, Cabrach Shooting lodge, Cabrach's oldest resident, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Correction Wynd, Craighall castle, death, dialect, Doric, Dr Flaxman, Dr Peter Gordon, duthchas, Easy Love, farm, Fascaray, Flight of ideas, frae weans to auld wans, Gaelic, Gamekeeper, gate, gates, gateway, Gauch, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Glenfiddich, glens, Golden Lane Securities Ltd, Gordons, hairt, Hame, heart, Hole Ousia, Home for little children, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian McEwan, Intensely Local, island, It is by living we learn, James Ross, Largue, Little Sparta, Lordism, Lordism impoverishes the land, magpie, Modern Ruin, Morbus Fascariensis, mountains, murder, Music in the depths of Glenfiddoch, My notebook will be better than a doctor, Nan Shepherd, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Ou Phrontis, outside they say, Paget's disease, Patrick Geddes, perhaps it is more of a desire than a sensation, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon found a pocketbook, Peter J Gordon, Piano Theme, poet in a landscape, poetry and identity, Poor Old Love, Poor Old Tired Horse, Prospects bright for 'Twelfth', Queen Victoria, rainbow, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Scotland, Scots, She gangs in brawness, shooting, Shooting Lodge, Sian Fiona Williams, Silver darling, Social maverick, St Peter's Seminary, The Antiquary, the antquary, The Blossoms, the Cabrach, The Cabrach Tragedy, the place of small things, The present order is the disorder of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, These are the hands, Touching Distance, 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

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