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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020March 29, 2021

For my mum and dad

These films about Edinburgh are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year after year, left an apple on her window-sill for me … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, Abbotsford, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Carubber's Manse, Charlotte Square, Christopher Lloyd, Colinton, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, David Livingstone, dawdle to sniff the beauty of the world, designed for use in a rebellion, distressed furniture, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Samuel Brown, Dunira, Dunira's Lost garden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh half-marathon, Edinburgh marathon, Edinburgh Zoo, Falcon Hall, Films about Edinburgh, Fletcher Norton, Florence Nightingale, Follow Me, Francis Seymour Haden, Freedom to speak up, Full of Energy, gateways, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Gilmerton House, Hatton, Hawkhill, Hawkhill House, Henry Dundas, Hermits and Termits, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, I had a project as a tiny boy, Indy-Ref, It is by living we learn, James Clerk Maxwell, Jessie lennox, John Wilson, Joseph Gerrald, keepsake, Kipps, labour of omission, Left-behind gateway, Liberty, magically reached out, Mary Brooksbank, Maurice Margarot, Mavisbank, meet you at the statue, meet you at the statue in an hour, Methven Simpson, MLA distinction, Monument to the Political Martyrs', Morningside, Mrs Picken, Murrayfield, Murrayfield stadium, Napier Road, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], New Town, newspaper boy, Nick Cave, Nobel prize, Nor' loch, North Loch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, ORPHAN Hospital [ Site of], Partick Geddes, Past and present, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Patrick Geddes, PE1493, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Physic Garden, Pipe Lane, Pipe Lane Public Toilets, Platform 11, Playhouse Close, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Police Boxes, Political Martyrs, Prince Street, Princes Street Gardens, Prodrums, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Sibbald, Rockville, rugby, Scotland, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish Government, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish Parliament, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Square, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's House, St Andrew's Square, statue, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The friends of liberty, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, the texture of time, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, This plethora of detail, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Thomas Transtömer, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Vivendo Discimus, Walter Scott, Warriston Cemetery, Waverley, weather bomb, Well tempered Garden, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh

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

Playfair brought light

The architect William Henry Playfair brought light to specimens in jars. More than two hundred years later so did Kathleen Jamie in her book FINDINGS. I was born in Edinburgh … Continue reading Playfair brought light

Categories: Architecture, History of medicine, Medical Education, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Anatomical Museum, Anatomist, Anatomy, Antiquary, Architecture, Body snatchers, Burke and Hare, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Robert Knox, Edinburgh, Findings, form, Hole Ousia, inside, Kathleen Jamie, light, Museum, museums, Omphalos, Omphalos films, On the Other side of the fence, outside, pathologising, pathology, Peter Gordon, Playfair, rebel antiquary, Resurrectionist, Royal College of Surgeons, Scotland, Scotland's oldest museum, skeleton, Social maverick, specimen jars, specimens, Surgeons Hall, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal College of Pathologists, time passes listen, William Henry Playfair, Window tax

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 2, 2020October 2, 2020

Playfair

In the Scotsman of last week I read that the University of Edinburgh has made it’s archive open to all [as a work in progress]: I have found mysel’ wonderfully … Continue reading Playfair

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Alexander McCall Smith, Antiquary, Architect, Architecture, archive, Edinburgh, gentle gardener, Hole Ousia, light, Michael Kiwanuka, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, rebel antiquary, Scotland, shapes, Silent as light, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes, University of Edinburgh, William Henry Playfair

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