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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 15, 2020July 16, 2020

Chapter Two of Part Three of ‘Decline and Fall’

In Chapter Two of Part Three of ‘Decline and Fall’ by Evelyn Waugh, the prison Governor asks ‘D.4.12’ [Paul Pennyfeather]: ‘I wonder whether you have narcissistic tendencies? Did you lead … Continue reading Chapter Two of Part Three of ‘Decline and Fall’

Categories: Architecture, Family history, gardens, History of medicine, Medical writings, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1841 census, 1851 census, 1861 census, 1871 census, 1881 census, 4.04, 6.26, A child’s garden of verses, a gardener is always a futurist, A L Kennedy, a roadside garden, a whole garden made out of love, Abergeldie, Abergeldie castle, Alexander Gordon, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander Morrison Gordon, Alexander Theodore Gordon, All the light we cannot see, Altyre, Andrew Robert Gordon, Anthony Doeer, Antiquary Gardens, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Forbes Gordon, auld gardener, Bend Sinister, bog, Bogg, Bovaglie, Bridge of Allan, Camlet, Castle Semple, Castle Semple Country Park, Collairniehill, Constant Gardener, Cothall, Craigroy, D.4.12, Deborah Levy, Decline and Fall, delightful regions, Dr Peter Gordon, Earlshall, Edinburgh, Elizabeth Packman, Ella Rae, Euphemia Ferguson, Fife, fifty years a gardener, Five Plays, Folk worth talking about, Forres, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, garden, gardener, Gardener's assistant, gardens, Gardens of the Mind, gentle gardener, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Girnoc, Girnock, Glasgow School of Art, Hale Bopp, Harmony Gardens, Head gardener, Healing landscape, High Street, Highland Agricultural Society, Hill of Ballunie, Hodgson Burnett, Hole Ousia, Hot Milk, Huntly Street, I wonder whether you have narcissistic tendencies, In search of lost time, Innovation School, Insch, Jessie Burton, John Gordon, Julian Barnes, Kenmure hill, Kettins, label, labeling, Landscape Architect, Landscape Architecture, Lemon Table, Lochwinnoch, Looking through glass, Marcel Proust, Mausoleum, Memory Lane, MLA distinction, Mossgrove, Mukul Kesavan, Newton House, Newton walled garden, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Pale Fire, Paul Pennyfeather, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Peter Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Rachel Gordon, Rafford, Rayne, Royal Botanic Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, ruin, ruins, Rupi Kaur, Scotland, Scottish Chapter Prize, secret garden, Serious Sweet, shepherd, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, Standing stone, Station Hotel, story, story telling, story-teller, Temple, Templeland, The Camlet, the garden moved in the breeze, The Gentle Gardener, The Giant's Garden, The lemon Table, The Muse, The Secret Garden, The stories of a small glen, the sun and her flowers, The Temple, The well tempered garden, there really was no hurry. I was going nowhere. Nowhere but here, this gifted gardener I discovered by chance, Tillybin, to be humbled, Tobago, University of Edinburgh, Vladimir Nabokov, walled garden, Warthill, Warthill House, Warthill of Bog, when this place was a a garden - one endless garden from end to end

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 8, 2020July 8, 2020

comet [COMET]

My son Andrew was born under the glow of Hale Bopp. I have been fascinated with passing comets ever since. Their forever fading tails [tales] seem as wonderful to me as … Continue reading comet [COMET]

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Bank Street, Bankruptcy, Beat the drum, Beat the drum fly the night catch a star, boots for all classes, Bridge of, Carrick-Buchanan, Coatbridge, Comet, cruelty to animals, Dr Peter J Gordon, Drumpellier, Economy in funerals, Hale Bopp, Iain Banks, Inn, Inns, James Wilson, Mossgrove, Peter Ferguson Gordon, Peter Gordon, poem, Poems, poetry, progress hardly broke its stride, Pub, pubs, rebel antiquary, Shark, Shark's Mouth, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, stories, Story-telling Centre, tails, tales, teddy, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Tillybin, YMCA

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 8, 2020

Andrew is 23 today!

Happy Birthday to our son, who is it present in Budapest!

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Aberdeen, Andrew Robert Gordon, Bridge of Allan, comet seekers, Hale Bopp, Hole Ousia, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Comet Seekers, The Rebel Antiquary, Tillybin

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 29, 2019

‘Why . . . I garden’

In the current BMJ, Peter Brennan explains ‘why . . . I garden’.

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: 10.1136/bmj.l6647, a whole garden made out of love, Bridge of Allan, garden, gardening, gentle gardener, I need to get back to my gardening, Little Sparta, Mossgrove, Peter Brennan, Peter Gordon, Sian Fiona Williams, The BMJ, The Gentle Gardener, Tillybin, Two Cultures, why . . . I garden

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