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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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By Hole Ousia Posted on April 29, 2020February 27, 2023

‘A lover of the wayside flower’

A few weeks before the ‘lockdown’ I visited the cemetery in Tillicoultry. At this date none of us were sure that a pandemic was unfolding: unknowing of our immediate future … Continue reading ‘A lover of the wayside flower’

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 28 Ochil Street, a lover of the wayside flower, Antiquary, At this date none of us were sure that a pandemic was unfolding, Before my retirement I was an NHS doctor in Clackmannanshire, Bridge of Allan, Clackmannanshire, compassion, Coronavirus, courage to care, Covid-19, Covid19, criss-crossing cemetery pathways, David Livingstone, David S. Ritchie, death, doctor, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Peter J Gordon, Eve Graham, Florence Nightingale, Folk worth talking about, Hole Ousia, I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME, in admiration of his philanthropy and services to the po, Janetta Pollock, Janetta Sophie Dalglish Pollock, keyworkers, Knew Livingstone and Florence Nightingale, Larbert, lyublyu, Margaret Mary Scott, Margaret Scott, mortality, Mossgrove, naturally combined feel with professionalism, NHS, Nightingale, Nurse, nurses, oblivious to how further indebted we would become to all keyworkers, Omphalos, Omphalos films, pandemic, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, professionalism, rebel antiquary, rows of graves beyond this obelisk my eye was drawn to an elegant stone, Royal Scottish Nation Institution, sapere aude, she joyed in Natures friendship, Social maverick, surgeon, t looked to be of the Arts and Crafts period but the inscription revealed that my impression was quite wrong, The Antiquary, The passing bell, The Rebel Antiquary, Tillicoultry, Tillicoultry cemetery

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 12, 2019February 22, 2023

‘Nature’s Fashionable Lounge’

Today, I was [again] humbled by [another] happenstance reminder of how little I really know about the world that surrounds me! This reminder happened in the natural course of the … Continue reading ‘Nature’s Fashionable Lounge’

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 18th, 21st May 1947, 50th, Ageing is Truth, Airthrey, Albert Ernest Bayne, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Water, Allan Water cafe, Altered Images, Alva, And the old brass bed they bought together, Andrew Robert Gordon, Andy Murray, Antiquary, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, Bannockburn House, Blair Drummond, Blawlowan, Bologna, Borrowmeadow, Borrowmeadow farm, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - a history, Bridge of Allan Highland Games, Bristol, But I'll remember thee, Carse, Carse of lecropt, Chalybeate, Chalybeate pump, Chalybeate well, Charles Rogers, Classic car rally, Cleopatra's needle, Cleopatra's triangle, Constitution Street, COSTA, Craig Mair, David Livingstone, David Rutherfoord, David Rutherford, doctor, Dr Eric Dow, Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr W H Welsh Trust, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Dunblane, Eliza Black, Enlightenment, Family film, Fernfield, first Stirling marathon, fish and chips, Florence Nightingale, Gang Forward, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Great Scottish Tapestry, Greatest Reward, Hannah Ann Stirling, Heathershot, Henderson Street, Hercules, Hercules bear, Highland Games, Hole Ousia, Hydropathic, icecream, It is not down in any map, It is not down in any map true places never are, James McEwen, jeely piece, Jerah, Jessie lennox, Keir, King's village found, Kippenrait, Lecropt, Living to tell the Tale, Lord Kames, Malcolm Allan, Mauchline Belle, Mavisbank, menstrie Glen, Millad, Monumental Madness, Mossgrove, moving on, Museum Hall, mytholm, Nature's Fashionable Lounge, Nineveh fountain, non est mortale quod opto, NOTES, NOTES No. XXIV., Now through my window, Ochils, Olympic torch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, Orchard House, Part of, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Pathfoot, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, picnic, Rab Scott, Rabbie Burns, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, sampler, Sculpture, Sheriffmuir, Sheriffmuir Inn, Shooting the Past, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Sometimes history takes things into its own hands, Spa, SPA CLEAN, Spa Town, Spa town is one of the best places to live in Britain, Stirling, Stirling University, suicide, Sunnylaw, Susan Rutherford, Ten Summers fade, The Ageing Stone, The Altar of COSTA, The Antiquary, The blossomest blossom:, The brig that spans the Wharry, The Flight of the Heron, the million-petalled flower of being here, The owl parliament, the owl parliament of Scotland, The passing bell, The Rebel Antiquary, The Welsh Trust, The Wharry, The world's Best, there was an insistent present tenseness, time passes listen, two shadows in conversation, tyranny of the quantifiable, Ursine physiology, Victorian, Wallace Monument, Wally Mint, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks, Well House, wells, Westerton Drive, Wharry Glen, William Stirling-Maxwell, William Wallace, You think so much of yoursel

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 26, 2017January 29, 2023

Lyublyu (revisited)

This is for my mum on Mother’s day 2017. (March 26th). It is a re-working of a film from 2011. Lyublyu: To play this short film please click here or … Continue reading Lyublyu (revisited)

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Age ten, Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, David Livingstone, Dr Peter Gordon, EDINBURGH LADY'S MEMORIES: Knew Livingstone and Florence Nightingale, Edwin Morgan, Edwin Morgan chose to learn his first Russian word, Edwin Morgan steps, Films about the Scott family, Florence Nightingale, Hale Bopp, handwriting is Florence Nightingales, Hole Ousia, Jessie lennox, Knew Livingstone and Florence Nightingale, love, lyublyu, Lyublyu (revisited), Makar, Margaret Mary Scott, Mossgrove garden, Mother's day 2017, My mum trained as a nurse and has those selfless qualities of being that make her a 'Nightingale'., Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Peter Scott-Godon, poet, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The passing bell, The Rebel Antiquary

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