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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 9, 2021February 9, 2021

Stitched-in-together

Last Saturday, at Twickenham, Scotland played England in the 150th test. Stuart Hogg was the captain for Scotland and his shirt was embroidered with the the name of Francis Moncrieff … Continue reading Stitched-in-together

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'auld enemies', 11-6, 15 Great Stuart Street, 150 years, 1871, 2021, a modern ruin, Aberdeen, Alan Stuart Gordon, Andrew Robert Gordon, architectural beauty, Bannockburn, Baron James Moncrieff, Blackburn Manse, Bonaly, Bridge of Allan, Cabrach, Calcutta Cup, Calcutta Cup 2021:, child birth, child birth fever, Demolished, Dr Alexander Gordon, England 6, Finn Russell, first Rugby International, Fitzherbert, Flower of Scotland, Francis Jeffery Moncrieff, Francis Moncrieff, Glasgow Herald, Hole Ousia, Kennedy, Margaret Gordon, Margaret Mary Gordon, Modern Athenians, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, New Town, Norman Halliday Moncrieff, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphalos fims, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Puerperal, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Raeburn Place, Rebecca Adams, River Forth, rugby, ruin, ruins, Scotland 11, Scotland's first Captain, Scotsman, Scott Walker Revisited, Sian Fiona Williams, six nations, Social maverick, St Nicholas, St Peter's Seminary, Steuarthall, Stewart Hall, Stirling, Stitched in, Stitched-in-together, Stuart Gordon, Stuart Hall, Stuart Hogg, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Tombain, Touching Distance, Twickenham

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 30, 2020

forwardness and backwardness

From the Book of Scottish Anecdote.

Categories: Architecture, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: anecdote, Antiquary, backwardness, Book of Scottish Anecdote, clergyman, Edinburgh, forwardness, George Street, Henry Erskine, Hole Ousia, New Town, Omphalos, Peter Gordon, physicians, Physicians' Hall, Queen Street, rebel antiquary, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Scotland, Social maverick, St Andrew's Church, story, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, uniformity

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020March 29, 2021

For my mum and dad

These films about Edinburgh are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year after year, left an apple on her window-sill for me … 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, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, Abbotsford, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, 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, Carubber's Manse, Charlotte Square, Christopher Lloyd, Colinton, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, David Livingstone, dawdle to sniff the beauty of the world, designed for use in a rebellion, distressed furniture, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Samuel Brown, Dunira, Dunira's Lost garden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh half-marathon, Edinburgh marathon, Edinburgh Zoo, Falcon Hall, Films about Edinburgh, Fletcher Norton, Florence Nightingale, Follow Me, Francis Seymour Haden, Freedom to speak up, Full of Energy, gateways, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Gilmerton House, Hatton, Hawkhill, Hawkhill House, Henry Dundas, Hermits and Termits, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, I had a project as a tiny boy, Indy-Ref, It is by living we learn, James Clerk Maxwell, Jessie lennox, John Wilson, Joseph Gerrald, keepsake, Kipps, labour of omission, Left-behind gateway, Liberty, 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, Monument to the Political Martyrs', Morningside, Mrs Picken, Murrayfield, Murrayfield stadium, Napier Road, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], New Town, newspaper boy, Nick Cave, Nobel prize, Nor' loch, North Loch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, ORPHAN Hospital [ Site of], Partick Geddes, Past and present, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Patrick Geddes, PE1493, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Physic Garden, Pipe Lane, Pipe Lane Public Toilets, Platform 11, Playhouse Close, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Police Boxes, Political Martyrs, Prince Street, Princes Street Gardens, Prodrums, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Sibbald, Rockville, rugby, Scotland, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish Government, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish Parliament, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Square, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's House, St Andrew's Square, statue, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The friends of liberty, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, the texture of time, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, This plethora of detail, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Thomas Transtömer, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Vivendo Discimus, 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

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 6, 2020

The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town

35 St Andrew Square was built for Andrew Crosbie of Holm [1736-1785]. This house was the first architecture on the grand cale to appear in Edinburgh’s New Town. No 35 … Continue reading The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1785, Advocate, Advocates Close, Allan's Close, Andrew Crosbie, Antiquary, Architecture, Atchibald Elliot, Ayrshire Bank, Boswell, Colin McWilliam, Dandie Dinmont, Douglas Heron, Douglas Hotel, Dr Johnson, Dumfrieshire, Edinburgh, Elizabeth Barker, Facade crushed by four giant ionic columns, Goldielea, Grefriars Churchyard, Guy Mannering, Henry Dundas, Hole Ousia, Holm, New Town, Parliament House, Patrick Geddes, Paulus Pleydell, Peddie and Kinnear, Queen Victoria, rebel antiquary, Robert Adam, Ross Fountain, Royal Bank of Scotland, Social maverick, St Andrew Square, The Antiquary, The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town, The Rebel Antiquary, Walter Scott

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