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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 13, 2022May 13, 2022

a year ago

A year ago I had a short stay in Aberdeenshire. It felt like returning home. May 2021: I had a short break in Aberdeenshire staying in the Aberdeen Arms, Tarland … Continue reading a year ago

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 10th Earl of Crawford, 2.5, 3000 feet, 3000 ft, 44 Midstocket Road, a gate, A Man Unknown, a right-of-way dispute, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, A Thousand chances, a tomb with a view, A vast telescope will create a movie of the universe, a year ago, abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Arms, Aberdeen Arms Hotel, Aberdeenshire, Aboyne, Acanthus, acanthus leaf, acanthus leaves, Admiral Fallow, Alexander Robb, an electric razor: donated, Angus, Antionetta, Antiquary, ARCADIA, as that swift eternity ended, astra castra numen lumen munimen, Ballintomb, Belle and Sebastian, Beyond the Strath, Blackford Observatory, bleet, bleeting, body found on Lecht, Body snatchers, body snatching, Braid Hill Observatory, Bridge of Allan, Cairngorms, Charles 10th Marquis of Huntly, Charles Brand Ltd, Charles Gordon, Charles Soutar, Chasing the sun, Circus Delrium, Class of 1990, climber, climbing, collapse of the Mortlich Monument, comet seekers, commercial forestry, contexto, Corgarff, Deborah Levy, Demolished, Desecration of the Earl of Crawford's tomb, Dexter Britain, dissection. Aberdeen Medical School, Distant Skies, Distant Sky, Doric, doric pillars, Dr Peter Gordon, Drain, Duguid, Dunecht, Dunecht body snatching, Dunecht House, Dunecht observatory, Dunecht Outrage Recalled, Dux, Earl of Crawford, Earl of Crawford's Body stolen, electric razor, fascination of absence, film, Films about ruins, Fort, gateway, General Scipio, George Saunders, Gibbie McIntosh, Gilber Farie, Glenkindie, gnarled oaks, Hale Bopp, Helen Jane Stewart Duguid, Hilary Mantel, Hole Ousia, house painter, Hugh Munro, Huntly, I am mindful of human weakness, Iron cross, James Dyas Davidson, James Ross, John Glennie, Julian Barnes, ladder, lambs, Latin, lecht, Lecht body found, Lindertis, Lindsay, Lindsay crest, Locherie, Lochery, Lochrie, Logie Coldstone, Lord Lindsay, Mantel Pieces, Margaret Cruickshank, Marks & Spencers, Medical Student, Monument, Mortlich Hill, Mortlich Monument, Mortlich obelisk, mountain, mountains, Mrs Scotland, Munro's, Munro-bagging, Mutual Improvement Society, Nabob, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, November 1912, oblelisk, Observatory, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, On the level, Oor big braw cosmos, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Peer's body that was stolen, Peter Gordon, Peter Ross, poacher, poem, Poem six, Poems, poet, poetry, portico, Punic War, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Rachel's scarf, ransom, Rat catcher, Real Estate, Rebecca Pidgeon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, ruins, Sandwiches, Scipio, Scotland, Scotland's peaks named after him, Sculpture, sheep, sheep amongst the ruins, shepherd, Sir Hugh Munro, skiing, sleepwalking, Snooker, snow storm, Social maverick, Social subjects, South Milton, South Milton cottage, Spanish Oaks, St Nicholas Street, Strathdon, Student Union, Tarland, telescope, The Antiquary, The Atmosphere, The Lass o' the Lecht, The Rebel Antiquary, The stars my camp, The stars my Camp [9111212], Thousand Chances, Tillybin, time passes listen, to the hills, Tollafraick, universe, Unknown man, ut per vias aeris, vaga ferus avis, vagrant, vermin killer, walking, We live between the microscope and the telescope, whaup, whaups, woodland

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 30, 2021July 1, 2021

The ATMOSPHERE

Lochrie farm, Glenkindie, Strathdon. The Atmosphere. Jist aifter lunch, on the first day of a new year, ootside yer front door you suddenly drapped deid. John Glennie, as the shepherd … Continue reading The ATMOSPHERE

Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen Arms Hotel, Antiquary, as that swift eternity ended, bleet, bleeting, fascination of absence, film, Glenkindie, Hole Ousia, John Glennie, lambs, Locherie, Lochery, Mutual Improvement Society, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, poem, Poem six, rebel antiquary, ruin, sheep, sheep amongst the ruins, shepherd, Strathdon, Tarland, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Thousand Chances, Tollafraick, ut per vias aeris, vaga ferus avis, whaup, whaups

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 16, 2020January 17, 2020

no can do

This was filmed at the abandoned farms of Tollafraick and Largue, Glenkindie, Strathdon [2nd January 2020] My apologies to the wonderful singers, who cover this Hall and Oates song, as … Continue reading no can do

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: abandoned, abandoned farm, Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov, Arts, farms, Glenkindie, Hall and Oates, Hole Ousia, humanties, Largue, no can do, Ompahlos films, Omphalos, Patrick Geddes, rebel antiquary, Science, Social maverick, Strathdon, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Tollafraick, Two Cultures

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

Two men had called

This film is about the reasons behind the suicide of Alexander Craib, farmer, Glencowie (Glencuie) on the estate of Glenkindie. Music credit: ‘Exit music’ by Steven Lindsay

Categories: Architecture, Medical Education, Omphalos films, Poems, Psychiatry, Scotland, suicide, This is Not yesterdayTags: Alexander Craib, Antiquary, Exit Music, farm, Glencowie, Glencuie, Glenkindie, Hole Ousia, Largue, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Social maverick, Steven Lindsay, Strathdon, suicide, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Tollafraick, two men called, two men had called

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