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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 24, 2023

The Yew avenue to Rosneath castle [1892]

This is a short film about Rosneath Castle in Argyll. It was once the home of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. Worn-out mattresses, legless chairs, headless beds: To play the … Continue reading The Yew avenue to Rosneath castle [1892]

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1892, 1961, A room with a view, Andrew O'Hagan, another young man who had been poking distractedly among the ruins, Antiquary, Argyll, Bend Sinister, Black Mirror, Bloody Old Britain, blown-up, Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder, Dark Skies, Demolished, Distant Skies, Dr Peter Gordon, Duchess of Argyll, Duke of Argyll, E M Forster, Emma Pollock, Films about ruins, Gabriel García Márquez, gelegnite, gelignite, headless beds, Hole Ousia, Jermy Irons, legless chairs, Love Among the Ruins, Margaret Drabble, Mayflies, my own life, Naval Base, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, O G S Crawford, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Princess Louise, Raymond Tallis, rebel antiquary, Robin Hyde, Rosneath, Rosneath castle, Rosneath House, Rosneath Peninsula, ruin, ruins, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Dark Flood Rises, The Godwits fly, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, the scandal of the century, The Yew avenue to Rosneath castle, Vladimir Nabokov, Voice of Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder, W G Sebald, Worn-out mattresses, Yew avenue

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

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1715, 1917, 6 sovereigns, a fallen monolith in a field, a modern ruin, A tin chest, a voyage through art and time, A9, abandoned, Adam Roy, Ageing is Truth, Albert Ernest Bayne, alcoholism, Alela Diane, Alexander Livingstone, Alexander McCall Smith, Ali Smith, All in my head, All that running, Allan Water, Allan Water cafe, Altered Images, Alva, Always summer, An essay on traffic, And the old brass bed they bought together, Andrew Robert Gordon, Andy Murray, Andy Robin, Antiquary, Archibald Gorrie, Architect, Argyll, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, aye, Balhaldie, Balmoral Crescent, Bannockburn House, Battle of Sheriffmuir, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, bear, Belle and Sebastian, best quality of Butter, Beyond the Strath, Biscuits, Bithergiese, Blackford, Blair Drummond, Blawlowan, Boat stone, Bonspiel, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Borrowmeadow, Borrowmeadow farm, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - 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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 12, 2023

They fell for us

These short films by Peter recall those who fell for us in War [please click on each image to play a different short film]. Between two black lines in the … Continue reading They fell for us

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 11-11-2023, 1715, 1917, 2023, A film written in chalk, abandoned, Aberdeenshire, active service, Adam Roy, Alastair John Greville Murray, Albert Bayne, Albert Edward Bayne, Alexander Livingstone, Alexander Stevenson, all at sea, Allan Water, an utterance, Antiquary, Argyll, Armistice day, artists and activists offer hope for the future, at sea, Auchinhard, Badly Drawn Boy, Balhaldie, barbed wire, barometer, battle, Battle of Sheriffmuir, battles, Between two black lines in the evening paper, Big Ted, Blackford, Blackford farms, Boreland farm, Borland farm, Bridge of Allan, Bugle Boy, by his mother, Canadian Tank Battalion, crosses, Damon Albarn, Darn walk, destroyed by fire, died at sea, died for us, displenishing sale, DLROW, Dr Flaxman, Dr John Flaxman, Durn House, Edinburgh, Ellemhaugh, environment, environmental wrongs, Exit Music, Fall, fell for us, gateway, gathering stone, Gawaine Baillie, George Nairn, Glenour, Glenover, Gunner, Hale Bopp, Harry Patch, have you ever seen a barometer that stays still, he sees what other people don't, Hill 70, Hole Ousia, Ian Collins, Influenza, is it time itself that we mourn, It is not down in any map, It is not down in any map true places never are, Jacobites, Jawhills, John Hyslop Gracie, Jools Holland, Just for one day, killed in action, Land for the People, Land Reform, Land Settlement Act, Last Fighting Tommy, left in ruins, Liechtenstein, Lisa Hannigan, Lost camera, Matt Johnson, Millad, Milladd, mirrors, neglected, nettles, New Zealand, NZEF, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Outlook tower, Patrick Geddes, Perth, Perthshire, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Piano Theme, Polkemmet, Polmaise, poppy fields, Private George Scott, progress hardly broke its stride, rebel antiquary, reclaiming our land, remembrance, remembrance day, Richard hawley, rickle of stanes, Robin Hyde, Rose Street, royal morning blue, ruin, ruins, Saltire, Scottish Borders, scribbled in chalk, Series II, Series II Land Rover, shadows, Sheriffmuir, Sheriffmuir Inn, Sherramoor, Sherramuir, Side, Singing Street, Slamannan, Social maverick, soldiers, Somme, space body other time, Spanish Flu, Spanish Influenza, Steven Lindsay, Stirling, storms, Syde, temporary art, The Antiquary, The Godwits fly, The House of Lessendrum, The Rebel Antiquary, There he dies, They fell for us, Time catches up, unknown soldier, Vivendo Discimus, Walter Bisset, Walter F Elrington Bisset, war, war diary, war is long slender rows of names between two black lines in the evening paper, West Lothian, what love means, who owns Scotland, William Nairn, William Yeats Stevenson, Worn-out mattresses, wrong side of the door, WWI, WWII, You're gonna live forever in me, young men

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 14, 2022March 21, 2023

The Godwits Fly

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, authoress found gassed, Benzedrine, Bridge of Allan, Britain's Siberia, Dr Peter Gordon, far-awayness, gentle gardener, Gilbert Farie, Godwits, had no name for this feeling, halfway through the war, He cannot unlearn the feeling, he was slow at putting words into ideas, Hole Ousia, hunchback, Hurst and Blackett, Iris Wilkinson, Ivan Illich, Mossgrove, New Zealand, novel of the week, over-the-hills, Patrick Geddes, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, poet, rebel antiquary, Robin Hyde, scholarly gardener remembered, Sian Fiona Williams, Siberia, SIBERIA is home to, Social maverick, suddenly life was worth living, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Godwits fly, The Porter's Bell, The Rebel Antiquary

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