The oval walled garden
At the beginning of the week I visited an estate near Newport in Fife that has just been sold. The faux-Tudor-Italianate House is dilapidated, and to my eyes, not attractive. … Continue reading The oval walled garden
Tag: Thomas Mann
Samalaman
A film about Samalaman which featured in a recent Sunday newspaper as “do-upper-of-the-week”: Most of the photographs in this film come from here [I do not have copyright for these … Continue reading Samalaman
The Rebel Antiquary
I write and make films in my study or sanctum sanctorum. This is the comfy domain of ‘The Antiquary’. This film is inspired by others and by their wonder. It … Continue reading The Rebel Antiquary
The hunchback
Gilbert Farie, (pronounced fairy) you will not have heard of, for he is a forgotten village Pharmacist who practiced back in Victorian days. Gilbert Farie was the dwarf pharmacist, hunched, … Continue reading The hunchback
Silent as light
Peter and Sian visited the Rembrandt exhibition in Edinburgh, on Saturday 13th October 2018. Music credit to: Choriosum ‘Borrowed words’: Edwin Morgan, Dylan Thomas, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Julian Barnes, Deborah levy, … Continue reading Silent as light
But all the biosciences yield to biofiction
In my reading I collect ideas as “marginalia“. What follows are the words of others, including: Richard Holloway, Anne Tyler, Will Self, Tomas Tranströmer, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Julian Barnes, … Continue reading But all the biosciences yield to biofiction
My mind’s full of things nobody else thinks about
British Psychiatry still teaches young doctors to divide the subjective from the objective. I am of the view that this is not just unrealistic but that it is harmful to … Continue reading My mind’s full of things nobody else thinks about
An infinite avenue
On a beautiful April day we visited Barnbarroch House and estate. It lies just a few miles south of Wigtown in Dumfrieshire. We arrived at Barnbarroch somehow back-to-front and were … Continue reading An infinite avenue
A whole garden made out of love
I am fortunate to be a volunteer with the charity Green Routes. Green Routes is a social enterprise and charity established to provide high quality training and work experience in … Continue reading A whole garden made out of love
Household name
I visited Poltalloch mansion, Argyll, on Tuesday 14th March 2018. This is my film on Poltalloch:
He practises medicine, plants trees
Credits: Hilary Mantel, The The, Alt-J, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Mann and every generation of Peter and Sian’s family
But this was more than an observation, it was an experience
This is a film about Lord Lynedoch and his beautiful wife Mary Graham. Credits: Thomas Mann, Hilary mantel (Reith lecture, 2017) and James Ross for “Beyond the Strath”