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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 March 6, 2013November 4, 2018

Rachel Gordon of Abergeldy

With the death of Peter, the thirteenth laird of Abergeldy, in 1819 the entrail took a knights-shift. Peter had no son and heir to leave his estate, and so it … Continue reading Rachel Gordon of Abergeldy

Categories: Deeside Tales, Family history, Royal Deeside, ScotlandTags: Aberdeen, Aberdeen-Angus, Abergeldie, Abergeldy, Adam Gordon, Advocate, Alexander Gordon, Ardvreck Castle, Balbithan Manuscript, Ballater, Ballogie, Baxendine, BBC, Bertram Fuller Gordon, Biddulph, birch, Birch wine, Brenda Lewis, Butler, Carbisdale, Charles David Gordon, Charter Chest, Clyde, Colonel Strachan, Covenanters, Craibstone, David Gordon, Donald Farquharson, Earl of Huntly, Earls of Mar, East India Company, Easton, Elizabeth Seton, Eltham, epilepsy, ex-Empress Eugenie of France, Francis David Gordon, Gertrude Gordon, Gillian Voelcker, Girnoc, Girnock, Glengardyn, God with us, Gordon & Biddulph, Grandholm, Harrow, HMS Queen Charlotte, Hugh Mackay Gordon, Indian Mutiny, James Graham, James I, Janet Risk Gordon, Jhansai, John Doncaster, John Howard Seton Gordon, John Malcolm Bulloch, Katherine Nicholsone, King Charles I, King Edward VII, King George V, Kirkcudbright, Laird of Assynt, Lalla, Lewis Gordon, Linquoch, Lord Byron, Lord Exmouth, Lost Prince, Lumphannan parish, Lyon Court, Marquis of Montrose, Mercat Cross, Michael Francis Gordon, Midmar, Newton, Parbroath, Persley, Peter Gordon, Poliakoff, Prince Consort, Prince John, Privy Council, Procurator, Protestant Cemetery in Florence, Reginald Hugh Lyall Gordon, Robert Gordon, Roger, Sandringham, Shooting the Past, Spanish blanks, Tarland, the Duchess of Kent, Thomas Nicholson, Tirling Pin, Tolbooth in Edinburgh, Treaty of Breda, William Gordon

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