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By Hole Ousia Posted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

VANDAL

This film shares some of the history of Tillybin farm. Music credit: ‘Fix You’ [instrumental] by COLDPLAY Tillybin was Peter and Sian’s first family home and it was here that … Continue reading VANDAL

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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Outside medicine he was a keen gardener

A few years ago I spent a week exploring Scottish gardens that had been tended by a namesake – Peter Gordon, ‘Jobbing Gardener, Forres’. I had considered that, despite having … Continue reading Outside medicine he was a keen gardener

Categories: Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1841 census, 1851 census, 1861 census, 1871 census, 1881 census, 2021 census, 2022 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, Calderwood, Camlet, Castle Semple, Castle Semple Country Park, census, Collairniehill, Constant Gardener, Coronavirus, Cothall, Covid-19, 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, Kilbride, label, labeling, Landscape Architect, Landscape Architecture, Lemon Table, letter, Lochwinnoch, Lockdown, Looking through glass, Marcel Proust, Mausoleum, Memory Lane, MLA distinction, Mossgrove, Mukul Kesavan, Newton House, Newton walled garden, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Outside medicine he was a keen gardener, Pale Fire, pandemic, 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, scholarly gardener remembered, Scotland, Scottish Census 2022, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish elections 2021, secret garden, senseless census, Serious Sweet, shepherd, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, Standing stone, Station Hotel, Stobo, story, story telling, story-teller, Temple, Templeland, The Camlet, the garden moved in the breeze, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, 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, Valerie Stewart, 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 March 18, 2021

bird-table

No wonder the small birds do not come to this bird-table! Fortunately the small birds can feed safely at this cat-proof table: A film about our cats, starring: Guinness, Drambuie, … Continue reading bird-table

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A bird-table in our garden, Andrew Robert Gordon, bird-table, Bridge of Allan, cat, cats, Domino, Drambuie, Guiness, Heidi, Hole Ousia, Luca, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter J Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, say that I am a rainbow, say that I'm a rainbow, sensitive to social geography, Sian Fiona Williams, Tillybin, Topsy, Turvy

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

“I’m going to discover something”

In introducing this book – about one of the brightest comets ever to pass by planet earth – the author Thomas Hockey, Professor of Astronomy, shares the origins of his … Continue reading “I’m going to discover something”

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2018, 2020, Aberdeen, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Arory-bory-Alice., aurora borealis, Beat the drum fly the night catch a star, Bridge of Allan, Comet, Comet Hale–Bopp, comet seekers, Frost hit Tillybin and froze the night., Hale Bopp, high intrinsic brightness, Hole Ousia, I'm going to discover something, MERRYTHOUGHT, Mossgrove, new views of Comets, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter John Gordon, poem, Professor of Astronomy, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, St Andrew's day, teddy, teddy bear, The Antiquary, The Comet Hale-Bopp book, The Comet Seekers, The Rebel Antiquary, This is not yesterday, Thomas Hockey, Tillybin, Were the stars really falling, What were those flashes in the sky, William Carlos Williams

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