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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

Cabrach Telephone Box

This photograph of the Cabrach Telephone Box featured in the Scotsman, 11 February 2021. When we lived at Tillybin, Aberdeenshire, there was a red telephone box at the road end. … Continue reading Cabrach Telephone Box

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A pocket book(found in Cabrach 1854), All that is no longer living, Allan Water, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Architecture, bandoned, Bridge of Allan, Buck, Cabrach, Cabrach Post Office, Cabrach Shooting lodge, Cabrach Telephone Box, Cabrach's oldest resident, Centenarian, Cold Call, Dauch, family history, films on the Cabrach, For truly she is Nature's gentlewoman, Gauch, Hale Bopp, Hole Ousia, If there could be a name, James Law, Mary Law, Mossgrove, Music in the depths of Glenfiddich Deer Forest, Omphalos, Omphalos films, outside they say, perhaps it is more of a desire than a sensation, Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon Law, Peter J Gordon, Poor Old Love, post office, postmistress, Prospects bright for 'Twelfth', Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, red telephone box, Rhynie, ruin, ruins, Scotland, Scotsman, Shenval, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Stevenson's cave, telephone box, The Antiquary, The Cabrach Tragedy, the place of small things, The Rebel Antiquary, The stories of a small glen, This is not yesterday, Tillybin, to be humbled, Touching Distance, Two Cultures, Wallace Monument, Wally Mint, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks, write about love

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

The Well Hoose

The following account of visiting Bridge of Allan Well House is by Dr Murray Cook [as published in the Stirling Observer, 7 October 2020] The following images were taken by … Continue reading The Well Hoose

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 18th, 21st May 1947, 50th, Ageing is Truth, Airthrey, Albert Ernest Bayne, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Water, Allan Water cafe, Altered Images, Alva, And the old brass bed they bought together, Andrew Robert Gordon, Andy Murray, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, Bannockburn House, Blair Drummond, Blawlowan, Bologna, Borrowmeadow, Borrowmeadow farm, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - a history, Bridge of Allan Highland Games, Bristol, But I'll remember thee, Carse, Carse of lecropt, Chalybeate, Chalybeate pump, Chalybeate well, Charles Rogers, Classic car rally, Cleopatra's needle, Cleopatra's triangle, Constitution Street, COSTA, Craig Mair, David Livingstone, David Rutherfoord, David Rutherford, doctor, Dr Eric Dow, Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord, Dr W H Welsh Trust, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Dunblane, Eliza Black, Enlightenment, Family film, Fernfield, first Stirling marathon, fish and chips, Florence Nightingale, Gang Forward, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Great Scottish Tapestry, Greatest Reward, Hannah Ann Stirling, Heathershot, Henderson Street, Hercules, Hercules bear, Highland Games, Hole Ousia, Hydropathic, icecream, It is not down in any map, It is not down in any map true places never are, James McEwen, jeely piece, Jerah, Jessie lennox, Keir, King's village found, Kippenrait, Lecropt, Living to tell the Tale, Lord Kames, Malcolm Allan, Mark Stanford, Mauchline Belle, Mavisbank, menstrie Glen, Millad, Monumental Madness, Mossgrove, moving on, Murray Cook, Museum Hall, mytholm, Nature's Fashionable Lounge, Nineveh fountain, non est mortale quod opto, NOTES, NOTES No. XXIV., Now through my window, Ochils, Olympic torch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, Orchard House, Part of, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Pathfoot, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, picnic, Rab Scott, Rabbie Burns, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, sampler, Sculpture, Sheriffmuir, Sheriffmuir Inn, Shooting the Past, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Sometimes history takes things into its own hands, Spa, SPA CLEAN, Spa Town, Spa town is one of the best places to live in Britain, Stirling, Stirling Observer, Stirling University, suicide, Sunnylaw, Susan Rutherford, Ten Summers fade, The Ageing Stone, The Altar of COSTA, The Antiquary, The blossomest blossom:, The brig that spans the Wharry, The Flight of the Heron, the million-petalled flower of being here, The owl parliament, the owl parliament of Scotland, The passing bell, The Rebel Antiquary, The Welsh Trust, The Wharry, The world's Best, there was an insistent present tenseness, time passes listen, two shadows in conversation, tyranny of the quantifiable, Ursine physiology, Victorian, Wallace Monument, Wally Mint, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks, Well House, wells, Westerton Drive, Wharry Glen, William Stirling-Maxwell, William Wallace, You think so much of yoursel

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

UPROOTED

I have been exploring the archives of the Glasgow School of Art. In doing so I have come across an uncelbrated pioneer photographer. Duncan Brown [1819-1897] was a pioneer amateur … Continue reading UPROOTED

Categories: Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1856, ancient tree, Antiquary, Duncan Brown, Elderslie, Glasgow School of Art, Hole Ousia, in the footsteps of William Wallace, Janitor, Monumental Madness, oak tree, oldest inhabitant, On the Oak of Elderslie uprotted by the Storm, Peter Gordon, photographer, pioneer photographer, poem, rebel antiquary, Renfrewshire, Scotland, snuff box, snuff boxes, Social maverick, storm, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Tree, trees, Wallace Monument, Wallace Oak, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks, William Wallace

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 26, 2020September 26, 2020

María of My Heart

This is from t h e s c a n d a l o f t h e c e nt u r y by Gabriel García Márquez: Many years … Continue reading María of My Heart

Categories: Architecture, History of medicine, Psychiatry, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Antiquary, Battle for the Wallace Monument, Bridge of Allan, Ednam House Hotel, Gabriel García Márquez, Hole Ousia, Humberto Hermosillo, incarceration, insanity, Kelso, Lunatic, Lunatic Asylum, María of My Heart, Maria, Monumental Madness, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the scandal of the century, Wallace Monument, Wally Mint, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks

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