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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Nov 12, 2019November 12, 2019

‘Nature’s Fashionable Lounge’

Today, I was [again] humbled by [another] happenstance reminder of how little I really know about the world that surrounds me! This reminder happened in the natural course of the … Continue reading ‘Nature’s Fashionable Lounge’

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Omphalos films, Philosophy, 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, Mauchline Belle, Mavisbank, menstrie Glen, Millad, Monumental Madness, Mossgrove, moving on, 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 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 Snow-Leavis Posted on Jun 22, 2019June 22, 2019

our dear neighbour

Crawford has been our dear neighbour for almost two decades. We are so fortunate to live next door to him in a house that architecturally mirror’s his. Crawford is retired … Continue reading our dear neighbour

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: adventure, and both our beds are made, Andrew Robert Gordon, bowling green, Bridge of Allan, centre of the universe, friend, friendship, Hide and Seek, Hole Ousia, imagination, kindness, Mossgrove, neighbour, neighbours, Nineveh fountain, Peter J Gordon, play-park, poem, poet, Rachel Fiona Gordon, ready or not, Sian Fiona Williams, summer, summers, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Westerton Drive, William Carlos Williams

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Mar 1, 2018March 1, 2018

LIGHTways

A few days after I wrote this Hole Ousia post based on my reading of Metroland by Julian Barnes this leaflet arrived through our letter box: Metroland begins and ends … Continue reading LIGHTways

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Bridge of Allan, Julian Barnes, LIGHTways, Metroland, sodium light, street light replacements, Westerton Drive

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