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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

Poetry and music together

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2014, 23 January 2021, 464A ALLELE 12, a feeling of being suspended between the sky and the sea, A hopeless case, A L Kennedy, A person has to be transcendent somewhere, Ageing is Truth, Ageing stone, Amalfi, Andrew Robert Gordon, Anthony Doeer, Antiquary, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, beautiful summer, Belle and Sebastian, between the scavenger and the philosopher, both personal and communal, Bridge of Allan, Casulaties, Charlotte's cave, Cimbrone, Clackmannan, Deborah Levy, Dunkeld, Edinburgh marathon, Edmund de Waal, essay, essays, essays can help us learn a new means of being together, Family films, Feature, Features, films for Sian, Fugitive from Girgenti, Gail Low, gardens, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Green grow the rashes 'o, Gregory's Girl, Hale Bopp, Hanya Yaanagihara, Hartshaw Mill, Haughhead., He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, Hole Ousia, humanities, Imagine being a colour and a feeling, IMAGINED SPACES, In the Middle, Innerpeffray, Innerpeffray Library, January 2021, Kalemouth Suspension Bridge, Kirsty Gunn, Lecropt, Library, Lismore, Little Sparta, lost, Lost (remastered), love, Medical Humanties, medicine, Mossgrove, Musselburgh, No more white coats, now that social media has reduced so much of public discource to little more than point-scoring, nuces philosophicae, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one hundred and thirty years, Paestum, pandemic, Part of, Perth, Peter and Sian, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Poetry and music come together, Poetry and music come together as one creative expression, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rationalisation, Ravello, rebel antiquary, Roddy Woomble, ruins, Scotsman, Scottish Cup, Seeds in the wind, She said nothing and she shone, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, social media, something of the sky, Somewhere on the other side of the afternoon’s horizon, St John's, St Johnstone, Strathearn, That small place in the whole of time, The Ageing Stone, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Beautiful Summer, the beginning of wisdom, The Fair Maid of Perth, the Great Garden, The manner of what we make defines us, The Medicine is in Aberdeen, The North and South Inches, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, the wedding of Peter and Sian, This is not yesterday, Together we are an endless conversation, twitter, Two Cultures, Walter Scott, we stopped listening and kept on leaping, Wedding, what was it you saw, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, when you say I like biscuits, Windsor gardens, wrapped up in books, You are my world

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 12, 2020

“As It Is, and as It Is To Be”

This was a feature in The GRAPHIC, 1 December 1906:

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1906, Antiquary, Architecture, Athens of the North, Edinburgh, Hole Ousia, Music School, Old Royal High School, Paestum, Paestum followed, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Royal High School, Scotland, seven hills, Social maverick, St Mary's Music School, Temple, The Antiquary, The athens of the North, The completion, The Graphic, The National Monument, The Pride of Scotland, The Rebel Antiquary, The Scottish National Monument, unfinished

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 16, 2020April 16, 2020

Cimbrone

Cimbrone, July 1993 Just wed, Peter and Sian, together on the ‘infinite terrace’, could just see the ruins of Paestum. Wow! This, the view from the hill-top gardens of Cimbrone. … Continue reading Cimbrone

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Poems, This is Not yesterdayTags: Amalfi, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, Cimbrone, clocks, Grimthorpe, Hole Ousia, honeymoon, Hooverphonic, Italy, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paestum, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes listen

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 28, 2019

‘I am La Louve. I am Longmeadow.’

This post is for the wonderful Monty Don.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A child’s garden of verses, a gardener is always a futurist, a specially fertile or delightful region, a whole garden made out of love, Antiquary Gardens, BBC, Bridge of Allan, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, fifty years a gardener, Finding Cimbrone, garden, gardener, Gardener's World, Gardens of the Mind, Green Routes, Hole Ousia, I need to get back to my gardening, La Louve, Longmeadow, Monty Don, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paestum, Peter J Gordon, Rab Scott, Ravello, rebel antiquary, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, Sweet peas, the garden moved in the breeze, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Giant's Garden, The Rebel Antiquary, The well tempered garden, Vladimir Nabakov, Well tempered Garden, when this place was a a garden - one endless garden from end to end

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