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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 13, 2022May 13, 2022

a year ago

A year ago I had a short stay in Aberdeenshire. It felt like returning home. May 2021: I had a short break in Aberdeenshire staying in the Aberdeen Arms, Tarland … Continue reading a year ago

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 10th Earl of Crawford, 2.5, 3000 feet, 3000 ft, 44 Midstocket Road, a gate, A Man Unknown, a right-of-way dispute, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, A Thousand chances, a tomb with a view, A vast telescope will create a movie of the universe, a year ago, abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Arms, Aberdeen Arms Hotel, Aberdeenshire, Aboyne, Acanthus, acanthus leaf, acanthus leaves, Admiral Fallow, Alexander Robb, an electric razor: donated, Angus, Antionetta, Antiquary, ARCADIA, as that swift eternity ended, astra castra numen lumen munimen, Ballintomb, Belle and Sebastian, Beyond the Strath, Blackford Observatory, bleet, bleeting, body found on Lecht, Body snatchers, body snatching, Braid Hill Observatory, Bridge of Allan, Cairngorms, Charles 10th Marquis of Huntly, Charles Brand Ltd, Charles Gordon, Charles Soutar, Chasing the sun, Circus Delrium, Class of 1990, climber, climbing, collapse of the Mortlich Monument, comet seekers, commercial forestry, contexto, Corgarff, Deborah Levy, Demolished, Desecration of the Earl of Crawford's tomb, Dexter Britain, dissection. Aberdeen Medical School, Distant Skies, Distant Sky, Doric, doric pillars, Dr Peter Gordon, Drain, Duguid, Dunecht, Dunecht body snatching, Dunecht House, Dunecht observatory, Dunecht Outrage Recalled, Dux, Earl of Crawford, Earl of Crawford's Body stolen, electric razor, fascination of absence, film, Films about ruins, Fort, gateway, General Scipio, George Saunders, Gibbie McIntosh, Gilber Farie, Glenkindie, gnarled oaks, Hale Bopp, Helen Jane Stewart Duguid, Hilary Mantel, Hole Ousia, house painter, Hugh Munro, Huntly, I am mindful of human weakness, Iron cross, James Dyas Davidson, James Ross, John Glennie, Julian Barnes, ladder, lambs, Latin, lecht, Lecht body found, Lindertis, Lindsay, Lindsay crest, Locherie, Lochery, Lochrie, Logie Coldstone, Lord Lindsay, Mantel Pieces, Margaret Cruickshank, Marks & Spencers, Medical Student, Monument, Mortlich Hill, Mortlich Monument, Mortlich obelisk, mountain, mountains, Mrs Scotland, Munro's, Munro-bagging, Mutual Improvement Society, Nabob, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, November 1912, oblelisk, Observatory, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, On the level, Oor big braw cosmos, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Peer's body that was stolen, Peter Gordon, Peter Ross, poacher, poem, Poem six, Poems, poet, poetry, portico, Punic War, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Rachel's scarf, ransom, Rat catcher, Real Estate, Rebecca Pidgeon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, ruins, Sandwiches, Scipio, Scotland, Scotland's peaks named after him, Sculpture, sheep, sheep amongst the ruins, shepherd, Sir Hugh Munro, skiing, sleepwalking, Snooker, snow storm, Social maverick, Social subjects, South Milton, South Milton cottage, Spanish Oaks, St Nicholas Street, Strathdon, Student Union, Tarland, telescope, The Antiquary, The Atmosphere, The Lass o' the Lecht, The Rebel Antiquary, The stars my camp, The stars my Camp [9111212], Thousand Chances, Tillybin, time passes listen, to the hills, Tollafraick, universe, Unknown man, ut per vias aeris, vaga ferus avis, vagrant, vermin killer, walking, We live between the microscope and the telescope, whaup, whaups, woodland

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 30, 2021July 1, 2021

The ATMOSPHERE

Lochrie farm, Glenkindie, Strathdon. The Atmosphere. Jist aifter lunch, on the first day of a new year, ootside yer front door you suddenly drapped deid. John Glennie, as the shepherd … Continue reading The ATMOSPHERE

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen Arms Hotel, Antiquary, as that swift eternity ended, bleet, bleeting, fascination of absence, film, Glenkindie, Hole Ousia, John Glennie, lambs, Locherie, Lochery, Mutual Improvement Society, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, poem, Poem six, rebel antiquary, ruin, sheep, sheep amongst the ruins, shepherd, Strathdon, Tarland, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Thousand Chances, Tollafraick, ut per vias aeris, vaga ferus avis, whaup, whaups

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 30, 2020

‘A lesson from Nature’

This is from the Scottish Book of Anecdote. I grew up on a housing estate in Bonaly.

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: a lesson from Nature, anecdote, Antiquary, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Book of Scottish Anecdote, childhood, Edinburgh, Hole Ousia, Lord Cockburn, Pentland hills, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, sheep, shepherd, Social maverick, story, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 31, 2020

Totarder

In last Sunday’s Herald, Totarder cottage, Skye, was advertised as “DO UPPER” of the week: This account of Totarder was given in April 1893: In November 1911 this sad ending … Continue reading Totarder

Categories: Architecture, History of medicine, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Angus Macrae, Antiquary, Catharine Morrison, cottage, croft, do-upper, do-upper-of-the-week, for sale, Hole Ousia, Measles, October 2020, Peter Gordon, quey, rebel antiquary, Roderick Macneill, rough and ready looks, sheep, Skye, Skye property, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Herald, The Rebel Antiquary, Totarder

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