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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 24, 2023

St. Mark’s Basilica [waking up in Venice]

In the photographic collection of the University of St Andrews I came across this 1880 photograph of St. Mark’s Basilica, Venice. All these years later, this beautiful scene has hardly … Continue reading St. Mark’s Basilica [waking up in Venice]

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2018, Albert Camus, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, Big God, Casa San Boldo, Damon Albarn, Dr Peter Gordon, Elmet, Emanuela, Emily Fridlund, Ezra Pound, Family film, Fiona Mozley, Florence and the Machine, Gondola, Gorillaz, Heaven Knows, History of Woves, Hole Ousia, it was approaching the end of June, Italy, Lion, Magic City, National Jazz Trio of Scotland, Olga Rudge, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Palace of the Doges, Pasti, Permanent Dream, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Pigeon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Revolutionary Road, Rialto, Richard Yates, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, St Mark's, St Mark's Square, St. Mark’s Basilica, St. Mark’s Basilica [waking up in Venice], summer, Summer's Edge, the ancient Venetian townhouse of Signora Pasti, The Antiquary, The National Jazz Trio of Scotland, The Plague, The Rebel Antiquary, this beautiful scene has hardly changed, This short film is based on a stay in Venice in June 2018, Tinnitus Lullaby, University of St Andrews, University of St Andrews photographic collection, Venetian Townhouse, Venice, VERTIGO, W G Sebald, Waking up in Venice, We stayed in Casa san Boldo

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 17, 2023

Tamrawer

Last night I gave a talk on Tamrawer to the Banton Heritage Society. I called my talk ‘Do not forget. Do not forget’. What follows are the slides that I … Continue reading Tamrawer

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Orchards, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1762, a famous potato grower, a gardener died, a gardener is always a futurist, Airthrey castle, ankle-high ruin, Antiquary, Auchencloch, Banton, Banton Heritage Group, Banton Heritage Society, Carron Iron Company, Carronside, Chasing the sun, Colin Barrie, Do not forget. Do not forget, Donald Graham, Dr Peter Gordon, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, forgotten places, gardener, gentle gardener, Hale Bopp, hillock with the high fort, History of the potato, Hole Ousia, horticulturalist, I like it when you call me Mr Scott, James Ross, Kilsyth, Mince an' Tatties, Mossgrove, November 2023, Omphalos, Omphalos films, oor Wullie, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, potato, potato planting, potatoes, rebel antiquary, river kelvin, Robert Graham, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Strathcarron, Tamrawer, Tamrawer Kilsyth where Robert Graham grew potatoes on a commercial scale. He was the first to do so in Scotland., tatties, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Grahams, The Grahams of Tamrawer, The Rebel Antiquary, Thomrawer, Tomrawer, Tomrawyr, unremembered, where iron runs like water

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 15, 2023November 16, 2023

Sheriffmuir Inn

This is Sheriffmuir Inn, as I recall it. Here, my Grumpa took me to visit to Hercules the bear. Here, with my family, I celebrated my 40th birthday. Here, I … Continue reading Sheriffmuir Inn

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Gordon, the sky belongs to us all, the twelfth of August, the two cultures, The Welsh Trust, The Wharry, The Wheel Demo, The world's Best, there was an insistent present tenseness, There was no road either to or from, There's no blue like a Gioto blue, this space, this too shall pass, time passes listen, tin chest, tinker, Tiny Desk Concerts, to speak of our life as we feel it is a freedom, Tomorrow, Topfauld, Tor-na-coille, True North, Truth is a beautiful thing, Two Cultures, Two postcards from, two shadows in conversation, tyranny of the quantifiable, University Day, Upper Quoiggs, Upper Quoigs, Ursine physiology, Victorian, village, Vivendo Discimus, Vladimir Nabokov, Wallace Monument, Wally Mint, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks, Walnut Grove, watermill, we all become spectators of absence, Welcome to Perthshire, Westerton Drive, Whaick, Wharry Glen, What do you care about this story?, wilder and more memorable, Wilfrid Lawson Gibson, William McNicol Whyte, William Stirling-Maxwell, William Wallace, Williamsfield cottage, Wintering wildfowl populations, wrestler, wrong side of the door, You think so much of yoursel, You're gonna live forever in me, Young Pilgrims, Zero waste, zero waste shop

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 15, 2023November 15, 2023

Squint

This calotype, taken in Forres, circa 1882, includes my father’s grandfather, John Gordon [seated in the centre]. If you look closely you will see that he has a squint. John … Continue reading Squint

Categories: Deeside Tales, Family history, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 90 years before the very day of my birth, a position that he held until his sudden death in 1899, a pioneer photographer, Alan Stuart Gordon, Altyre, Altyre gardener, Altyre shepherd, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, by means of the Lime Light, calotype, calotyps being the images of pioneers, Collairniehill, Cothall, Craigroy Croft, Deeside Tales: The stories of a small glen, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, emigrated to California, Euphemia Ferguson, family history, Forres, gentle gardener, Girnoc, Girnock, Graffiti, Henry Gordon, Henry Mungall Gordon, Hole Ousia, I came across a felled tree at Cothall, I stamped "The Antiquary" on it but in life it needed no name to live so healthily., In visiting the gardens of the gentle gardener I hope to offer an understanding that it is by living that we learn, It is by living we learn, James Lillie, John Gordon and Euphemia Ferguson, Joppa, Lantern entertainment, Lime Light, Little Tiz, Magic Lantern, Magic Lantern entertainments, meaning needs looking for, my father is called Stuart Gordon and my grandfather Henry Gordon, name, names, naming, newspaper cartoons pinned to the wall, Oor Fairmer fae the far side o’ the hill, Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon the gardener had a daughter born at Cothall, Peter Gordon the gentle gardener., Peter J Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, photographer, Photographic Studio, Portobello, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, River Findhorn, shepherd, Sian Fiona Williams, Sluie, Social maverick, squint, Stuart Gordon, sudden death of an Altyre Shepherd, The Antiquary, The gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, The reverse side of the calotype, The stories of a small glen, to be humbled, Tytler Street, Victorian graffiti

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