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Tag: Tor-Na-Coille

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 5, 2021November 25, 2024

A poem for everyday of the year

This film is for Dai Williams. A poem for everyday of the year:

Categories: Family history, Omphalos filmsTags: Bumpa Dai, Dai + Eileen, David Tobias Williams, Eileen, Eileen Georgeson, Grandma, Omphalos films, Perth, Tor-Na-Coille, Walnut Grove
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 13, 2021November 25, 2024

M & S Foodhall

Sunday 9th May 2021. With the easing of lockdown restrictions we travelled through to Perth to have a picnic with Sian’s parents in their beautiful garden by the river Tay. … Continue reading M & S Foodhall

Categories: Family history, gardens, This is Not yesterdayTags: Covid-19, Dai + Eileen, Marks + Spencer, pandemic, Peter + Sian, Tor-Na-Coille, Walnut Grove
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 22, 2020November 30, 2024

The sparkling Tay is there!

The heron, made of iron, had aged rusty, quite beautifully so. The heron’s toes, always a little ungainly, bent awkward by weather and time. TheĀ  heron, fallen and lost in … Continue reading The sparkling Tay is there!

Categories: Family history, gardens, Poems, This is Not yesterdayTags: Allan Water, Peter + Sian's garden, Peter's poems, River Tay, Tor-Na-Coille
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 22, 2019December 2, 2024

Tor-na-coille

Where Sian’s parents live, by the River Tay.

Categories: Family historyTags: Dai + Eileen, Perthshire, River Tay, Tor-Na-Coille, Walnut Grove
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 28, 2019December 3, 2024

April 1963: a newspaper from the time of Dai and Eileen’s marriage

Thanks to Geoff and Joy Darracott, Pentwyn, for keeping this newspaper from the time of Dai and Eileen’s marriage:

Categories: Family historyTags: Bumpa Dai, Dai + Eileen, Grandma, St Johnstone, Tor-Na-Coille, Walnut Grove
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 31, 2019December 3, 2024

Tor-na-coille

lasting colour and beauty [photograph taken today]

Categories: gardensTags: Dai + Eileen, flowers, orchards, Tor-Na-Coille
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 29, 2019December 4, 2024

Auntie Nana’s apple pudding

Thank you Eileen for making Auntie Nana’s apple pudding. It was delicious! The blossom in your orchard is so beautiful. Dennis Potter described this as “the blossomest blossom”.

Categories: Family historyTags: blossom, Dai + Eileen, Eileen Georgeson, orchards, Tor-Na-Coille, Walnut Grove
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 28, 2018December 4, 2024

Tor-na-coille

We spent a lovely Christmas beside the river Tay. The first three photos are of garden birds in flight approaching the bird table. The last photograph is of starlings daily … Continue reading Tor-na-coille

Categories: Family historyTags: Andrew + Rachel, birds, Christmas, Dai + Eileen, E M Forster, garden birds, Howards End, Peter + Sian, Tor-Na-Coille, Walnut Grove

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