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By Hole Ousia Posted on August 18, 2021

PROGRESS hardly broke its stride

A short protest film. Made 18 August 2021.

Categories: Family history, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2021, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Are you making progress?, Bridge of Allan, By living we learn, Climate change, Cosmic Love, Dr Patrick Geddes, Edinburgh, Florence and the Machine, fossil fuels, garden, gardener, Geddes lorry, geographer, global warming, Hole Ousia, Iain Banks, IHI, improvement science, Incorrigibly plural, It is by living we learn, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, Perth, Peter Gordon, philosopher, planner, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Realistic Medicine, Realize your dreams, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, synthesis of knowledge, The Antiquary, The Beaten Generation, The Rebel Antiquary, The The, the two cultures, Too much Medicine, Two Cultures, unstoppable progress, Vivendo Discimus

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 12, 2021

Secret of the Yew Tree

‘If we are on a path of initiation into the secrets of landscape, earthlore and healing, the yew tree can become a powerful heirophant.’ The Ormiston Yew The circular Yew … Continue reading Secret of the Yew Tree

Categories: gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1943, 700 year old layering Yew, a Miracle of Yew Regeneration, a modern ruin, abandoned, Abbotshall, Abercairney, Aberthuven, Adam and Eve, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander Moncrieffe, Alexander Naysmith, An ancient child, ancient, Andrew MacFarlane., Antiquary, Ardnamurchan, Argyll, Arm Chair, Arrochar, Auchendrane, Auchendrane yew, Ayrshire, bannister, Bernera, Berneray, Bienn a' Bhacaidh, Bienna Bhacaidh, Bilbliotheca Abscondita, Bower, brainlessness, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, castle, chapel of the Yew trees, child, circular yew, Clan Fraser, concentration camps, Condie, connection, Craigends, Craigends Yew, Crieff, Crookston castle, Culfargie, curves, Dalmellington, Dalserf, Dalserf parish Church, Dame Helen's castle, Dovecot, Dunaskin, Dunwich, Earlshall, East Lothian, Eccles Church Tower, Edinburgh, Evelyn Waugh, exploration, Fife, fire, Ford, formal, Fortingal, Fortingal Yew, Fortingall, Fortingall Yew, Fraser Clan, garden, gardesns, Gask, gate, gatepiers, gateposts, gateway, Geese, gentle gardener, Glasgow, Glenhurich, Graeme, Great Montrose, Grove, hares would yet breed on his hearthstone, headless, Hedge, hedging, heirophant, Helen Liston Hardie, Hermit, herring, Hole Ousia, How to stop time, humanity, I Vow, I Vow castle, I Vow Yew, Inchbrakie, Incorrigibly plural, island, It is by living we learn, James Joyce, Jehanne Mehta, Kate McNiven, Keirs castle, Kilneuair, Kirkcaldy, Laight castle, landcape architecture, landscape, Landscape Architecture, Leon Eisenberg, light, Lismore, Little Spartan, Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Lochan na h' Iubhraich, Lochawe, Lochnell, Lord Darnley, Loss, MacFarlane, Mansion, Margaret Mary Scott, Marquis of Montrose, Mary Queen of Scots, Matt Haig, Max Sebald, Maze, memory, mindlessness, MLA distinction, model, Monzie, Musaem Clausum, national Trust for Scotland, Nature, New Condie, Nigel Tranter, Oliphant, Omphalos, Omphalos films, painter, Patrick Geddes, Patrick Graeme, Paul Greenwood, Persecuting Raploch, Perthshire, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, poem, poet, poetry, Pollok House, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, Rabbie Burns, Raploch, rebel antiquary, Renfrewshire, ring, Robert the Bruce, Rockingham, Rockingham elephants, ruin, ruins, Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees, Scotland, Scull, Secret of the Yew Tree, sermons, silver darlings, Social maverick, Somerleyton, St Columba, St Columba's Yew, St Giles, St Moluag, stairs, stairway, Stenton, Stirling-Maxwell, taxus baccata, The Abbotshall Yew, The Antiquary, The Auchendrane Yew, The Brownie's Cell, the Chapel of the Yew Trees, the Crookston yew tree, The Culfargie Yew, The Elanvow Preservation Fund, The faded glories of his Clan, The Fraser Yew, The Gentle Gardener, The Giant's Garden, The Inchbrakie Yew, the largest Yew tree in Scotland, the lion of the secession churc, The little loch of the yew grove, the living hedge, The Monastery, the ormiston Yew, The Raploch Yew, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, The speaking hedge, The Wallace Yew, These are the hands, Thomas Browne, three castles, three sisters, Tomas Transtromer, topiary, village, Vivendo Discimus, W G Sebald, Walter Scott, When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree, William Hamilton, William Wallace, William Wordsworth, Winfried Georg Sebald, witch, Would you Adam and Eve it?, writer, WWII, Wyndeham Le strange, Yew, Yew hedge, Yew tree, Yew trees, Yews

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021

Linwood no more

If a tear comes to your eye when you hear the PROCLAIMERS sing in a ‘Letter From America’ and that LINWOOD is one of the ‘no mores’, then you may … Continue reading Linwood no more

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 40 years on, Antiquary, car-plant, Climate change, CO2, Covid-19, Decline and Fall, famous car-plant, frontpage, he strongly disagress with the long-held popular belief that the Hillman Imp was a failure, Hillman Imp, Hole Ousia, Industrialisation, Letter From America, Linwood, Linwood no more, Margaret Thatcher, No more, Proclaimers, progress hardly broke its stride, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Scotsman, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 18, 2020December 18, 2020

CYNICUS

Martin Anderson [Known as CYNICUS] Martin Anderson (1854-1932) was a genius as an illustrator and cartoonist. From his small offices at 59 Drury Lane, The Strand, he took London by … Continue reading CYNICUS

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1622, 1854, 1932, anti-war poster, antiquarian, Antiquary, Arthur Conan Doyle, artist, Auld Kirk, Balmullo, Bernard Shaw, Bohemian, Bonnie Prince Charlie, caricaturist, cartoons, Cartoons Social and Political, castle, Chair, Conan Doyle, Craighall castle, Cunningham-Graham, Cynicus, Cynicus castle, Cynicus place, Demolished, Demolition of Castle Cynicus, Drury Lane, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fife, Gartmore, Glasgow, grand piano, Hole Ousia, J M Barrie, Jerome K Jerome, Keir Hardie, Lantern Slides, Leuchars, Liberty Hall, Lucky Scalp, Lucky Scaup, Madras College, Margaret Martin, Mark Twain, Martin Andeson, Model of John Knox's House, Monopoly, Newport, Omphalos, Omphalos films, organ, Peter Gordon, Picture Postcard, postcard, postcards, Prime Minister, progress, progress hardly broke its stride, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Ramsay MacDonald, rebel antiquary, SCAPEGOAT, Scotland, social justice, Social maverick, St Andrews, St Mungo Art Club, statues, strayshots, sundial, Sunrise, sunset, Symbols and Metaphors, Tayport Auld Kirk, The Antiquary, THE BAIT, The Cynicus Publishing Company, The Great Bank Fraud, The Humours of Cynicus;, The Rebel Antiquary, The Satires of Cynicus, The SOCIAL LADDER, University of St Andrews, Vagabonds Club, vandalism, vandals, Victorian, When Cymicus went to School, William Anderson, World War I, WWI, York Place

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