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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 September 15, 2022March 22, 2023

as if it were the only thing

Yesterday, with Sian and a Baird cousin from Rhode Island, we visited Drumdruills. Florence, who has been ‘Custodian’ of this farm and orchard for over 40 years now, was so … Continue reading as if it were the only thing

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By Hole Ousia Posted on September 4, 2020March 4, 2023

A most ancient place

I have recently come across this account of the ancient history of Drumdruills, which in my grandfather’s time was a fruit orchard. The etymology of Drumdruills is still being revealed, … Continue reading A most ancient place

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By Hole Ousia Posted on April 12, 2018February 3, 2023

To speak our life as we feel it is a freedom

‘The Cost of Living, Deborah levy’s latest “living autobiography”, I found rather special.

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, Two culturesTags: a gardener is always a futurist, Albert Camus, an invincible summer inside him, another of her poems came in from noewhere - which is always somewhere, Antiquary, By yellow lights tormented, Deborah Levy, Dr Peter Gordon, Hole Ousia, Hot Milk, I identified with Camus, Living in yellow, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, sodium light, sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong, sorrow does not have a century, The Antiquary, The cost of living, The Neon yellow preservation society, The Rebel Antiquary, to speak of our life as we feel it is a freedom, To speak our life as we feel it is a freedom, we either die of the past or become an artist, what if I can't imagine another culture, when I note down ideas for field studies I don't know whether I'm writing in the past or present tense, writer, writers

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