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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 June 12, 2020

464A ALLELE 12

Bridge of Allan during Coronavirus lockdown: 10th June 2020, Fountain Road. Music: live acoustic version of ‘Do I Wanna Know’ by the Arctic Monkeys 464A ALLELE 12 is one of … Continue reading 464A ALLELE 12

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Neuro-genetic determinism, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 464A ALLELE 12, allele, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Arctic Monkeys, Bridge of Allan, Camberwick Green, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid19, diversion, Do I wanna know, Fountain of Nineveh, Fountain Road, genome, Hole Ousia, Lockdown, lost, Mossgrove, music box, Neurogenetic determinism, Nineveh fountain, Omphalos, Omphalos films, pandemic, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, roadworks, roundabout, Sian Fiona Williams, social distance, social distancing, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Magic Roundabout, The Rebel Antiquary, Westerton Drive

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 6, 2020

Teddy bears: from their window

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Andrew Robert Gordon, angel, angelology, Anne Tyler, Antiquary, blossom, Bridge of Allan, Captain Tom, cherry trees, children, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid19, Critical compassion, daffodils, Denise Coia, Eve Graham, Florence Nightingale, Fountain of Nineveh, Fountain Road, gentle gardener, Hole Ousia, intelligent kindness, Janetta Pollock, Jessie lennox, kindness, Lockdown, Mossgrove, Nightingale, Nightingales, Nineveh, Nineveh fountain, Nurse, nurses, obituary, pandemic, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, play-park, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Stirling Council, The Antiquary, The blossomest blossom:, the fountain of Nineveh, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, Tillicoultry, Westerton Drive

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 27, 2020

Kindness

A selection of neighbourhood and newspaper images from yesterday and the day before:

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Andrew Robert Gordon, angel, angelology, Anne Tyler, Antiquary, blossom, Bridge of Allan, Captain Tom, cherry trees, children, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid19, Critical compassion, daffodils, Denise Coia, Eve Graham, Florence Nightingale, Fountain of Nineveh, Fountain Road, gentle gardener, Hole Ousia, intelligent kindness, Janetta Pollock, Jessie lennox, kindness, Lockdown, Mossgrove, Nightingale, Nightingales, Nineveh, Nineveh fountain, Nurse, nurses, obituary, pandemic, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, play-park, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Stirling Council, The Antiquary, The blossomest blossom:, the fountain of Nineveh, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, Tillicoultry, Westerton Drive

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