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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

Poetry and music together

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2014, 23 January 2021, 464A ALLELE 12, a feeling of being suspended between the sky and the sea, A hopeless case, A L Kennedy, A person has to be transcendent somewhere, Ageing is Truth, Ageing stone, Amalfi, Andrew Robert Gordon, Anthony Doeer, Antiquary, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, beautiful summer, Belle and Sebastian, between the scavenger and the philosopher, both personal and communal, Bridge of Allan, Casulaties, Charlotte's cave, Cimbrone, Clackmannan, Deborah Levy, Dunkeld, Edinburgh marathon, Edmund de Waal, essay, essays, essays can help us learn a new means of being together, Family films, Feature, Features, films for Sian, Fugitive from Girgenti, Gail Low, gardens, Glenbardie, Glenbardy, Green grow the rashes 'o, Gregory's Girl, Hale Bopp, Hanya Yaanagihara, Hartshaw Mill, Haughhead., He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, Hole Ousia, humanities, Imagine being a colour and a feeling, IMAGINED SPACES, In the Middle, Innerpeffray, Innerpeffray Library, January 2021, Kalemouth Suspension Bridge, Kirsty Gunn, Lecropt, Library, Lismore, Little Sparta, lost, Lost (remastered), love, Medical Humanties, medicine, Mossgrove, Musselburgh, No more white coats, now that social media has reduced so much of public discource to little more than point-scoring, nuces philosophicae, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one hundred and thirty years, Paestum, pandemic, Part of, Perth, Peter and Sian, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Poetry and music come together, Poetry and music come together as one creative expression, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rationalisation, Ravello, rebel antiquary, Roddy Woomble, ruins, Scotsman, Scottish Cup, Seeds in the wind, She said nothing and she shone, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, social media, something of the sky, Somewhere on the other side of the afternoon’s horizon, St John's, St Johnstone, Strathearn, That small place in the whole of time, The Ageing Stone, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Beautiful Summer, the beginning of wisdom, The Fair Maid of Perth, the Great Garden, The manner of what we make defines us, The Medicine is in Aberdeen, The North and South Inches, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, the wedding of Peter and Sian, This is not yesterday, Together we are an endless conversation, twitter, Two Cultures, Walter Scott, we stopped listening and kept on leaping, Wedding, what was it you saw, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, when you say I like biscuits, Windsor gardens, wrapped up in books, You are my world

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 14, 2020June 3, 2020

Glen Creran gardener

I recently came across this photograph of a Victorian gardener who worked in Glen Creran, Argyll. The photograph was annotated with the name of the gardener: Peter Rankin. To me … Continue reading Glen Creran gardener

Categories: Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A L Kennedy, Albert Camus, Andrew Greig, Antiquary, Appin, Architect, Ardchattan, Argyll, Balliveolan, Bridge of Allan, C Duncan, Campbell family of Balliveolan, Cars in the Garden, Claremont Villa, Connel, cycling, Evelyn Waugh, Ferry, garden, gardener, gardens, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, imagination, island, Janet McLauchlan, Jean laurie, Kinlochlaich, Lismore, Mossgrove, Oban, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paul Buchanan, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Peter Rankin, photograph, Port Appin, Port Ramsay, puggled, puggled gardener, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, The Antiquary, the Great Garden, The Rebel Antiquary, walk, working hands, Yann Martel

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 14, 2018October 14, 2018

Auld Lang Syne

Last Thursday we were lucky enough to be in the audience of Mairi Campbell who was performing Auld Lang Syne at the Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling. It was most special … Continue reading Auld Lang Syne

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1965, Auld Lang Syne, Catriona, Dave Francis, folk singer, Lismore, MacRobert Arts Centre, Mairi Campbell, Margaret Mary Scott, musician, Rabbie Burns, Sex in the City, Sian Fiona Williams, Stirling, The Cast, the Great Garden

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 2, 2018October 2, 2018

The Great Garden

We are just home from a wonderful short-break at Kinlochlaich Gardens, Argyll. Both Peter and Sian are keen gardeners. We visited the island of Lismore taking the ferry from Port … Continue reading The Great Garden

Categories: Family history, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A L Kennedy, Albert Camus, Andrew Greig, Appin, Architect, Argyll, C Duncan, Cars in the Garden, Connel, cycling, Evelyn Waugh, Ferry, gardens, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Kinlochlaich, Lismore, Oban, Paul Buchanan, Port Appin, Port Ramsay, the Great Garden, Yann Martel

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