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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2021

Who owns the land?

This image, as printed in Scotland on Sunday, 21 March 2021, returned my thoughts to the Cabrach, and a series of films that I made long ago:

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1854, a modern ruin, A pocket book [found in Cabrach, a scurvy antiquary such as I am, a vulgar eloquence, abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, actual or potential attitudes, actual or potential selves, Aldunie, Alexander McCall Smith, and feeling the only compass in life, Annalena McAfee, Antiquary, Architecture, Arts, Badly Drawn Boy, bank, beautiful summer, between the scavenger and the philosopher, Blackwater Lodge, Blackwater Shooting Lodge, body, brain, Buck, Built on the Clyde, Bundle and Go, Bursary, Cabrach, Cabrach Post Office, Cabrach Shooting lodge, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Can you unfeel that, Centenarian, Correction Wynd, Craighall castle, cut-in-half, Dauch, death, dialect, Distance and Memory, Distant Sky, divide, divides, Doric, duthchas, Easy Love, family history, farm, Fascaray, films on the Cabrach, Flight of ideas, For truly she is Nature's gentlewoman, frae weans to auld wans, Gaelic, Gamekeeper, gate, gateway, Gauch, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Gordon bursary, gripped by an intense nostalgia for the present, hairt, Hale Bopp, Hame, he had loved maps since he was a boy, heart, history lessons - we had been taught the big facts not the minor, Hole Ousia, Home for little children, I am part of all that I have met, I was free I was affronted by freedom, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian McEwan, If there could be a name, Intensely Local, island, It is by living we learn, James Law, James Ross, Little Sparta, Lordism, Lordism impoverishes the land, magpie, Mary Law, mind, Modern Ruin, Morbus Fascariensis, mountains, murder, My notebook will be better than a doctor, Nan Shepherd, objective, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Ou Phrontis, Paget's disease, Patrick Geddes, Peter and Sian, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon found a pocketbook, Peter Gordon Law, Peter J Gordon, Piano Theme, poet in a landscape, poetry and identity, Poor Old Love, Poor Old Tired Horse, post office, postmistress, Prospects bright for 'Twelfth', Queen Victoria, rainbow, rebel antiquary, Rhynie, Robert Gordon, ruin, ruins, Science, Scotland, Scots, She gangs in brawness, Shenval, shooting, Sian Fiona Williams, Silver darling, Social maverick, St Peter's Seminary, Straloch, subjective, The Antiquary, The Blossoms, The Cabrach Tragedy, the outdoors brought a sense of proportion, the places that loom large in our lives, The present order is the disorder of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The stories of a small glen, there really was no hurry. I was going nowhere. Nowhere but here, These are the hands, This is not yesterday, to be humbled, Two Cultures, 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, your far dispatches bring remoteness nea

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 29, 2020December 30, 2020

say that I’m a rainbow

I first heard this song whilst working in my study [sanctum sanctorum]. My study has a side-ways facing window. Through this window I watch small garden birds feed, play, and … Continue reading say that I’m a rainbow

Categories: Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Two cultures, UncategorizedTags: #choosepsychiatry, Antiquary, Dodie, Drop the Disorder, garden birds, Godwits fly, Hole Ousia, Jo Watson, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Psychiatry, rainbow, rebel antiquary, Sanctum Sanctorum, say that I am a rainbow, Social maverick, The Godwits, The Godwits fly, The Rebel Antiquary, watergaw

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 22, 2020

2mm

This short film is about a village response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Footage is from Bridge of Allan and from our house and garden. The voice is that of Alastair … Continue reading 2mm

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2020, 2mm, Alastair McIntosh, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, BBC Radio Scotland, Bridge of Allan, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid19, daises, daisy, fairy, Farie, garden, gardener, Gilbert Farie, Henderson Street, Hole Ousia, Key workers, Mossgrove, NHS, Omphalos, Omphalos films, pandemic, Peter John Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rainbow, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, social distance, social distancing, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, thought for the day

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

Two Bridge of Allan Stalwarts

This celebration is worth attending. Malcolm Allan is an exceptional man. He is for me ‘Bridge of Allan’. His knowledge, brightness and ability are only matched by his interest in … Continue reading Two Bridge of Allan Stalwarts

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2019, Andrew Robert Gordon, Bagpuss, Bridge of Allan, Dr W H Welsh Trust, Dr Welsh Trust, Hole Ousia, Malcolm Allan, May, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Oswald Bates, owl, owls, Paterson clock, Peter J Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rainbow, Shooting the Past, Sian Fiona Williams, The owl parliament, the owl parliament of Scotland, The Welsh Trust, time passes listen, Two Bridge of Allan Stalwarts

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