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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020December 5, 2020

For my mum and dad

These films about Edinburgh are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year after year, left an apple on her window-sill for me … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, Abbotsford, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Carubber's Manse, Charlotte Square, Christopher Lloyd, Colinton, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, David Livingstone, dawdle to sniff the beauty of the world, designed for use in a rebellion, distressed furniture, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Samuel Brown, Dunira, Dunira's Lost garden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh half-marathon, Edinburgh marathon, Films about Edinburgh, Fletcher Norton, Florence Nightingale, Follow Me, Francis Seymour Haden, Freedom to speak up, gateways, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Hatton, Hawkhill, Hawkhill House, Henry Dundas, Hermits and Termits, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, I had a project as a tiny boy, Indy-Ref, It is by living we learn, James Clerk Maxwell, Jessie lennox, John Wilson, Joseph Gerrald, keepsake, Kipps, labour of omission, Left-behind gateway, magically reached out, Mary Brooksbank, Maurice Margarot, Mavisbank, meet you at the statue, meet you at the statue in an hour, Methven Simpson, MLA distinction, Monument to the Political Martyrs', Morningside, Mrs Picken, Murrayfield stadium, Napier Road, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], New Town, newspaper boy, Nor' loch, North Loch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Partick Geddes, Past and present, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Patrick Geddes, PE1493, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Playhouse Close, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Police Boxes, Political Martyrs, Prince Street, Princes Street Gardens, Prodrums, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Sibbald, Rockville, rugby, Scotland, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish Government, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish Parliament, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Square, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's Square, statue, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The friends of liberty, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, The Rebel Antiquary, the texture of time, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, This plethora of detail, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Vivendo Discimus, Walter Scott, Warriston Cemetery, Well tempered Garden, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 6, 2020November 7, 2020

Graffiti

This is an account of the grafitti of John Gordon, the last of the ‘Third Family’ of Cluny and the “richest commoner in Scotland”. Through John Gordon’s graffiti it is … Continue reading Graffiti

Categories: Deeside Tales, Family history, Omphalos films, Royal Deeside, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1804, 4 St Andrew Square, Aberdeen, AN EARLY SCOTTISH TRAVELLER IN EGYPT, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Braid, Camlet, Charles Gordon of Braid, Cluny, Cluny castle, Deeside, Deeside Tales, Edinburgh, Egypt, Girnoc, Girnock, Graffio, Graffiti, In search of John Gordon 1804, Johanna Trotter, John Gordon, Keersmaecker, Mausoleum, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Roger O. De Keersmaecker, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Spelled out in graffiti, St Andrew Square, St Cuthbert's, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the richest commoner in Scotland, The stories of a small glen, Third Family' of Cluny, Through John Gordon’s graffiti we have been able to reconstruct his voyage up the Nile.

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 6, 2020

The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town

35 St Andrew Square was built for Andrew Crosbie of Holm [1736-1785]. This house was the first architecture on the grand cale to appear in Edinburgh’s New Town. No 35 … Continue reading The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1785, Advocate, Advocates Close, Allan's Close, Andrew Crosbie, Antiquary, Architecture, Atchibald Elliot, Ayrshire Bank, Boswell, Colin McWilliam, Dandie Dinmont, Douglas Heron, Douglas Hotel, Dr Johnson, Dumfrieshire, Edinburgh, Elizabeth Barker, Facade crushed by four giant ionic columns, Goldielea, Grefriars Churchyard, Guy Mannering, Henry Dundas, Hole Ousia, Holm, New Town, Parliament House, Patrick Geddes, Paulus Pleydell, Peddie and Kinnear, Queen Victoria, rebel antiquary, Robert Adam, Ross Fountain, Royal Bank of Scotland, Social maverick, St Andrew Square, The Antiquary, The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town, The Rebel Antiquary, Walter Scott

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