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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 19, 2021May 20, 2021

The writing on the waas o devotion

On the second Monday of May 2021, my guid friend Rab Wilson, poet and lad o’pairts, took me to the old abandoned farmhoose of Cormilligan a small sheep farm in … Continue reading The writing on the waas o devotion

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A Country Schoolmaste, A Country Schoolmaster, Airmail, AIRMAIL the letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer, Alexander McCall Smith, Annalena McAfee, Antiquary, Cormilligan, Diaries of a Dying Man, diaspora, E M Forster, Glenore, Hame, Hole Ousia, Howards End, James Shaw, John Berger, lad o'pairts, Lallans, McCraw, Miss Armstrong, New Zealand, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Pale Fire, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Rab Wilson, Rabbie Burns, rebel antiquary, Robert Bly, Robert Wislon, Robin Hyde, ruin, ruins, Scotland, Scots Language Centre, shepherd, Social maverick, Sylvia Plath, The Antiquary, The Bell Jar, The Godwits fly, The peppermint tea chronicles, The Rebel Antiquary, The writing on the waas o devotion, Tomas Transtromer, Tynron, Understanding a photograph, Vladimir Nabokov, William Soutar, WWI, WWII

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 12, 2021

Secret of the Yew Tree

‘If we are on a path of initiation into the secrets of landscape, earthlore and healing, the yew tree can become a powerful heirophant.’ The Ormiston Yew The circular Yew … Continue reading Secret of the Yew Tree

Categories: gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1943, 700 year old layering Yew, a Miracle of Yew Regeneration, a modern ruin, abandoned, Abbotshall, Abercairney, Aberthuven, Adam and Eve, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander Moncrieffe, Alexander Naysmith, An ancient child, ancient, Andrew MacFarlane., Antiquary, Ardnamurchan, Argyll, Arm Chair, Arrochar, Auchendrane, Auchendrane yew, Ayrshire, bannister, Bernera, Berneray, Bienn a' Bhacaidh, Bienna Bhacaidh, Bilbliotheca Abscondita, Bower, brainlessness, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, castle, chapel of the Yew trees, child, circular yew, Clan Fraser, concentration camps, Condie, connection, Craigends, Craigends Yew, Crieff, Crookston castle, Culfargie, curves, Dalmellington, Dalserf, Dalserf parish Church, Dame Helen's castle, Dovecot, Dunaskin, Dunwich, Earlshall, East Lothian, Eccles Church Tower, Edinburgh, Evelyn Waugh, exploration, Fife, fire, Ford, formal, Fortingal, Fortingal Yew, Fortingall, Fortingall Yew, Fraser Clan, garden, gardesns, Gask, gate, gatepiers, gateposts, gateway, Geese, gentle gardener, Glasgow, Glenhurich, Graeme, Great Montrose, Grove, hares would yet breed on his hearthstone, headless, Hedge, hedging, heirophant, Helen Liston Hardie, Hermit, herring, Hole Ousia, How to stop time, humanity, I Vow, I Vow castle, I Vow Yew, Inchbrakie, Incorrigibly plural, island, It is by living we learn, James Joyce, Jehanne Mehta, Kate McNiven, Keirs castle, Kilneuair, Kirkcaldy, Laight castle, landcape architecture, landscape, Landscape Architecture, Leon Eisenberg, light, Lismore, Little Spartan, Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Lochan na h' Iubhraich, Lochawe, Lochnell, Lord Darnley, Loss, MacFarlane, Mansion, Margaret Mary Scott, Marquis of Montrose, Mary Queen of Scots, Matt Haig, Max Sebald, Maze, memory, mindlessness, MLA distinction, model, Monzie, Musaem Clausum, national Trust for Scotland, Nature, New Condie, Nigel Tranter, Oliphant, Omphalos, Omphalos films, painter, Patrick Geddes, Patrick Graeme, Paul Greenwood, Persecuting Raploch, Perthshire, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, poem, poet, poetry, Pollok House, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, Rabbie Burns, Raploch, rebel antiquary, Renfrewshire, ring, Robert the Bruce, Rockingham, Rockingham elephants, ruin, ruins, Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees, Scotland, Scull, Secret of the Yew Tree, sermons, silver darlings, Social maverick, Somerleyton, St Columba, St Columba's Yew, St Giles, St Moluag, stairs, stairway, Stenton, Stirling-Maxwell, taxus baccata, The Abbotshall Yew, The Antiquary, The Auchendrane Yew, The Brownie's Cell, the Chapel of the Yew Trees, the Crookston yew tree, The Culfargie Yew, The Elanvow Preservation Fund, The faded glories of his Clan, The Fraser Yew, The Gentle Gardener, The Giant's Garden, The Inchbrakie Yew, the largest Yew tree in Scotland, the lion of the secession churc, The little loch of the yew grove, the living hedge, The Monastery, the ormiston Yew, The Raploch Yew, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, The speaking hedge, The Wallace Yew, These are the hands, Thomas Browne, three castles, three sisters, Tomas Transtromer, topiary, village, Vivendo Discimus, W G Sebald, Walter Scott, When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree, William Hamilton, William Wallace, William Wordsworth, Winfried Georg Sebald, witch, Would you Adam and Eve it?, writer, WWII, Wyndeham Le strange, Yew, Yew hedge, Yew tree, Yew trees, Yews

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 9, 2021February 9, 2021

Architect recieves medal after 70 years wait

A 94 year-old architect denied a prestigious student award during World War Two because of his German origins, has been finally honoured. Born in Berlin in 1920, Antony Wolffe fled … Continue reading Architect recieves medal after 70 years wait

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: after coming top in his final year, Antiquary, Antony C Wolffe, Antony Wolffe, Architect, Architect recieves medal after 70 years wait, Architecture, Berlin, Canmore, City of Edinburgh Civic Design Medal, drawings, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Hole Ousia, Master of Landscape Architecture, MLA distinction, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Scottish Chapter Prize, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, University of Edinburgh, WWII

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

Scattered with derelict concrete boxes

I could not have made this film without this wonderful website by Richard Edkins Image credits: CANMORE archive Music credits: (1) Never Forget – Lucas King (2) Exit Music – … Continue reading Scattered with derelict concrete boxes

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: abandoned, Antiquary, archive, Barend, Canmore, Cordite, Dalbeattie, depot, Dumfriesshire, Ednam Moss, Exit Music, Explosives, Factory, General Montgomery, Graffiti, Hitler, Hole Ousia, Lucas King, Ministry of Supply, Never Forget, Nitro-glycerine Works, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Sandy Hills, Scattered with derelict concrete boxes, Social maverick, Solway Coast, Steven Lindsay, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, W R Moore, war, Winston Churchill, WWII

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