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Hole Ousia

being and becoming in the world

  • About me
    • Artwork by Peter
    • Contact
    • Courage to Care
      • ‘Two cultures’
        • Omphatyp’
      • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
        • “This isn’t a priority for us”
        • Bring me sunshine
        • Shame on us all
          • “The Sunshine label”
        • The Scottish Government has chosen not to listen to the Scottish people
          • A decision made behind closed doors
        • The voices of the people really do matter
        • Unethical pharmaceutical marketing: a common problem requiring collective responsibility
      • Curriculum vitae
      • Declaration of interests
      • Delirium screening
        • ‘Informed consent is a fundamental principle underlying all healthcare’
        • Faltering, unfaltering steps
        • Haloperidol prescribing to Scotland’s elders
        • Infusion of worldwide teas
        • NHS Scotland requires a culture that listens to all
        • Scientific progress requires open-minded enquiry
        • The benefits of clinical engagement
        • The hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people
      • In support of professional values
        • Perpetrator responses to victim confrontation
        • The case for kindness
      • Leading to the Exit door
      • Leaving a profession
      • Looks out for each other
      • Medical publications
      • Messages about my retirement
      • Putting patients first: that is all I have tried to do
      • Testimonials for Dr Peter J. Gordon
      • The Governance of the NHS in Scotland
      • The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
      • Timely diagnosis of dementia
        • Dementia: the “epidemic” of metaphors
        • Dementia: who is in the “driving seat”?
        • I was concerned about our most elderly
        • Role of cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia care needs rethinking
        • Scotland’s approach to Dementia Diagnosis
        • Sertraline and Mirtazapine for depression in dementia [HTA-SADD]
        • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
          • “This House supports the early detection of dementia”
            • The result: ‘Motion defeated’
          • Anti-amyloid immunotherapies: low benefit/risk ratio
            • “The data point to beta-amyloid playing a minor aetiological role”
            • ‘Therapy related brain damage’
            • Estimating the true value: Aducanumab and Donanemab for Early Alzheimer Disease
          • Back in the driving seat: Industry
            • Joint Letter by Alzheimer’s Scientists
          • Dementia Case-Finding: language and ethics
          • Donanemab [TRAILBLAZER]
            • “The hyperbole in the media and scientific response is unjustified and cruel to patients”
            • Brain volume loss due to Donanemab
            • Donanemab: bleeding and Seizures
            • Donanemab:’The results may be misleading’
          • EPAD co-coordinator: Professor Craig Ritchie
          • Glasgow Memory Clinic
          • Hide and Seek
          • In a “muddle”?
          • Issues not considered in the ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
          • National Clinical Director for Dementia
          • Professor says: “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
            • absurdum
          • Scottish Brain Sciences
            • Adverts for ‘Scottish Brain Sciences’
          • Snakes, ladders and Monopoly
          • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’ – a timeline
        • Wandering, wondering and worrying
      • Under-valued ideas
    • Deeside Tales
      • Short films about Deeside
      • To be humbled.
    • Diary of a house
      • Pianos and Flowers
    • Films made by Peter
      • 3 films that almost ended my career
      • A maker of beautiful books
        • The Great Tapestry of Scotland
      • A new way of seeing
      • A Thousand Chances
      • Alive in the river of light
      • Angelology
      • Bridge of Allan
      • bridges
      • Canto two
      • Finding Cimbrone
      • Folk worth talking about
      • friendship itself
      • Glenbardy
      • Go seek adventures
      • Here is where we meet
      • I am part of all that I have met
      • Important note about my films
      • in its ending
      • incorrigibly plural
      • It was the singing
      • Language is leaving me
      • Let the anchor go
      • Little Sparta
      • living mountains
      • man with the child in his eyes
      • Marginalia
      • mathematically me
      • Mossgrove garden
      • my library-haunting self
      • of an Antiquary
      • Oor big braw Cosmos
      • Political pieces
      • Progress hardly broke its stride
      • sensitive to the faltering steps of age
      • Sheramoor
      • Stravaiging need not be lonely
      • The anatomy of emotion
      • the blue flower
      • The bright cave under the hat
      • The Cabrach
      • the Glentruim series
      • The Rebel Antiquary
      • They fell for us
      • this gifted gardener [I discovered one day]
      • Time passes. Listen
      • To see what Scott saw:
      • Trees: age and beauty do go together
      • [Series II]
    • Firrhill High School
    • Hole Ousia [what does it mean?]
    • Mavisbank
      • On Esca’s Flow’ry Bank
      • Short films about Mavisbank
    • MEDICINE
      • Films about MEDICINE
      • Films about PSYCHIATRY
      • Films and Sapere Aude
      • Films on ETHICS
      • Films on Professional VALUES
      • Films that consider ‘First Do No Harm’
    • My dissertation on hedges
    • My schooling
    • One-word poems
    • Peter’s poems
    • Publications in the “Leopard”
    • The Ageing Stone
    • The making of the future
    • The speaking hedge
    • What is in a name?
  • being and becoming
    • “A place with no quotation marks”
    • Academic reductionisms
    • Admissions of doubt
    • Ariel
    • Cell Mates
    • Medical “truants”
    • Multifarious learners
      • A fortunate man
      • Dr Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
      • Dr Arthur J. Brock
      • Dr Arthur Mitchell
      • Dr Daniel Reid Rankin
      • Dr Gavin Francis
      • Dr James Sheridan Knowles
      • Dr Leon Eisenberg
      • Dr Samuel Brown (1817 – 1856)
      • Edmund de Waal
      • Edward Victor Appleton
      • Femi Oyebode
      • Francis Seymour Haden
      • George Washington Wilson
      • Graham Watt
      • James Clerk Maxwell
      • James Ferguson
      • James Skene
      • John Berger
        • Here is where we meet
      • John Frederick William Herschel
      • K. J. Fowler
      • Kenneth Calman
      • Mr and Mrs Rose
      • Nadar
      • Patrick Matthew
      • Rev George Gilfillan
      • Richard Feynman
      • Scottish women writers
      • Sir Harry Burns
      • Theodore Dalrymple
      • Thomas Browne
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Lewson Burrowes
      • William Ramsay
    • Philosophers
      • Albert Camus
      • Andrew Greig
      • Dr John Flaxman
      • Dugald Stewart
      • John Macmurray
      • John Stuart Mill
      • Mary Midgley
      • Raymond Tallis
    • Poets
      • Alexander laing
      • Bill Douglas
      • Caledonian Antisyzygy
      • Carol Ann Duffy
      • Daniel Abse
      • Edwin Morgan
      • Iain Banks
      • Iain Crichton Smith
      • Ivor Gurney
      • James Hyslop
      • James M Slimmon
      • John Betjeman
      • John Halliday
      • Kathleen Jamie
      • Kieron Winn
      • La Teste
      • Leonard Cohen
      • Liz Lochhead
      • Norman MacCaig
      • Patrick Deeley
      • Paul Muldoon
      • Peter Davidson
      • Rab Wilson
      • Rabbie Burns
      • Robert Fergusson
      • Robert Nicholl
      • Robert Pollok
      • Robin Hyde
      • Sylvia Plath
      • T S Eliot
      • Ted Hughes
      • Tom Leonard
      • Tomas Tranströmer
      • Wilfred Owen
      • William Carlos Williams
      • William Soutar
    • Sapere Aude
      • A bit of a prat
      • a very clever young man
      • Caroline Phillips
      • Chrys Muirhead
      • Claire Fox
      • Dr Donald Brownlie
      • Dr Margaret McCartney
      • Fara McAfee
      • Gawaine Baillie
      • Gerald
      • Hale-Bopp
      • Humpty Dumpty
      • I mistook myself for a scientific label
      • Jessie Lennox (a Nightingale)
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Aubrey
      • King Kong
      • Margaret Maberley Gordon
      • O. G. S. Crawford
      • Omphatyp’
      • Owen Jones
      • Richard Holloway
      • Richard Taylor
      • Roy Porter
      • Stanley Murray
    • Writers
      • A L Kennedy
      • A S Byatt
      • Adam Nicolson
      • Alan Trotter
      • Alexander McCall Smith
      • Ali Smith
      • Alice Hoffman
      • Andrew Greig
      • Andrew Miller
      • Annalena MacAfee
      • Anne Tyler
      • Anthony Doerr
      • Candia McWilliam
      • Cesare Pavese
      • Charlotte Peacock
      • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
      • David Szalay
      • Deborah Levy
      • Douglas Stuart
      • E M Forster
      • Emily Fridlund
      • Ernest Hemingway
      • Evelyn Waugh
      • Fiona Mozley
      • Ford Madox Ford
      • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
      • Gabriel García Marquez
      • Geoff Dyer
      • George Orwell
      • George Saunders
      • Hanya Yanagihara
      • Henry Mackenzie
      • Herman Melville
      • Howard Jacobson
      • Ian McEwan
      • Iris Murdoch
      • J. D. Salinger
      • Janice Galloway
      • Jessie Burton
      • John Buchan
      • John Lanchester
      • John Steinbeck
      • Julian Barnes
      • Kazuo Ishiguro
      • Lampedusa
      • Laurie Lee
      • Madeleine Thien
      • Marcel Proust
      • Margaret Drabble
      • Matt Haig
      • Max Porter
      • Mohsin Hamid
      • Mukul Kesavan
      • Muriel Spark
      • Nan Shepherd
      • Nathan Filer
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Otessa Moshfegh
      • Penelope Fitzgerald
      • Rachel Cusk
      • Richard Flanagan
      • Richard Holmes
      • Richard Yates
      • Roald Dahl
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Robert Seethaler
      • Rudyard Kipling
      • Sara Baume
      • Thomas Mann
      • Virginia Woolf
      • Vladimir Nabakov
      • Will Cohu
      • William Boyd
      • Yann Martel
  • in the world
    • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
      • “The influence of pharma is not excessive”
      • ‘Listen, let the people petition and be heard’
      • ‘To influence others by offering money’
      • A matter for others
      • Artificial light
      • Bring me a sunshine act
      • British Psychiatry: Marketing as ‘Education’
        • “A robust learning environment for healthcare professionals”
        • “A wrong un’ when you see it”
        • “An ethical relationship with pharma”
        • “Big Pharma Conspiracies”
        • “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
        • “Dominated by people against psychiatric medication”
        • “Excessive claims by drug firms”
        • “FULLY BOOKED”
          • Yet more “education” funded by Industry
        • “MacDonald’s to advise on childhood nutrition”
        • “P R O M I S C U O U S”
        • “The place to go to” for CPD
        • “We have an appropriately puritanical relationship with Pharma”
        • “Working with the drug industry—is your reputation at risk?”
        • ‘Fees for services’
        • ‘Industry Biased Medicine’
        • ‘Medical Education for the 21st Century’
        • ‘MEDICAL EDUCATION: In the grip of industry?’
        • ‘Psychiatry without borders’
        • ‘Trusted Information Creator’
        • ‘Welcome to Pharmacare’
        • 2013 International Congress: Defensiveness
        • 2017 International Congress: Psychiatry without Borders
          • “Performed well”
        • 2018 International Congress: Psychiatry: New Horizons
          • “He delivered piercing insights”
        • 2019 International Congress: The commercialisation and branding of a profession
        • ABC of Mental Health: Depression
        • BAP ‘educator’ on prescribing received $3,581,159 in payments from Pharma
        • BAP relationship with industry
          • A decade of BAP Summer Meetings
            • “BAPFEST”
            • An Erudite Encounter with Guy Goodwin
              • Lundbeck Institute: How should the education be provided and by whom?
              • Who’s paying your doctor
          • Guy Goodwin’s final blog as President of ECNP
          • Professor David Nutt: “The race is on to get it to market”
            • “Psychedelic drugs could soon treat alcoholism”
        • Conflict of interest and the British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Continuing Medical ‘Education’
        • Correspondence with the British Association for Psychopharmacology
        • Crappy Branded Stuff
        • Darkness prevails: the Royal College of Psychiatrists
          • “Questioning the Journal’s independence and lack of scientific explanation in the College’s response”
          • Royal colleges are urged to be more transparent on industry payments
        • Data Protection: The Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Is academic psychiatry for sale?
        • Is there evidence to support this statement?
        • It’s boom time for the College
        • Latuda: vigorously marketed in The UK
        • New Editor-in-Chief of The British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Paid Opinion Leaders
          • “What a moment to join the party”
          • ‘The race is on to get it to market’
          • 2022 BAP Annual General Meeting
          • 5 Live Science: Tackling Depression
          • A letter that the Scottish Parliament felt unable to publish
          • an extraordinary claim
          • Paid opinion leaders on public engagement
          • Professor David Nutt
          • The Royal College of Psychiatrists on sunshine legislation
        • Pharma payments to the Royal College of Psychiatrists [2019]
          • all that jingle-jangle of coins
        • Pharmaceutical influence and psychiatrists
        • Pharmavarsity
        • Prescribing Guidelines: let’s be transparent
        • Professors A, B, and C
        • Puritanical or Platinum?
          • RCPsych International Congress and BAP
            • Presidential handover
        • Rising stars: British Association of Psychopharmacology
        • Royal College of Psychiatrists: “This is a matter for the Government to decide”
          • “Shirking a leadership responsibility”
        • Satellite symposia and paid opinion leaders
        • Simon said
          • Has not left the building
        • The British Journal of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Industry advertising
          • “SPECIAL ARTICLE”
          • ‘AUTHENTICITY’
          • Are competing interests of authors sufficiently transparent?
        • The Defeat Depression Campaign
          • “Buy it, read it and recommend it!”
          • “CONSENSUS STATEMENT”
            • Managing depression in general practice
          • “Defeating depression in old age”
          • “Dista Products [for] Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993”
          • “Doctors gamble on a cure”
          • “Fear of dependency”
          • “Fun Run”
          • “Generously sponsored by Smith Kline & Beecham”
          • “Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
          • “The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
          • “To mount a glossy campaign on the basis of this method is frankly disturbing”
          • ‘Antidepressants unlimited’
          • ‘Continuing to defeat depression’
          • ‘Costs should have been considered’
          • ‘Defeat Depression: A European Perspective’
          • ‘Doctors’ Survey Sparks Campaign’
          • ‘Dyspeptic Dinner Entertainment’
          • ‘The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry’
          • ‘Warm-up led by former DJ of Capital Radio’
          • ‘We cannot be in the pockets of the Pharma companies’
          • ‘Why can’t GPs follow guidelines on depression?’
          • (orders 100+ at 25p per leaflet)
          • A summary of the Educational Components
          • After the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • An ‘Educational Campaign’ sponsored by Pharma
          • How to Defeat Depression
          • Is depression a chronic illness?
          • LILLY Pharmaceuticals: the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • Mass prescribing
          • My career began with the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • One-and-the-same
          • Psychiatry in General Practice: a ‘Campaign’ begins
          • Putting caring conversations into practice
          • RCPsych archive: 5 Boxes
          • SSRIs: “Public confidence needs to be restored”
          • The ‘Chemical imbalance’ theory
          • This historical campaign has vital lessons for today
          • Video Training Package
          • What Price Depression?
        • The latest ‘Platinum Sponsor’ for RCPsych conference
        • The Law of the Few
        • The mismatch
        • The President’s Lecture
        • The RCPsych Psychopharmacology Committee – influence of industry
        • Transparency and British Psychiatry: Hold the applause
        • Transparency at the Top
        • Who pays the piper?
      • Led Astray – Industry’s Influence on Drug and Device Watchdogs
      • Medicine remains as conflicted as ever
        • ‘Murky Stuff’
      • Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
        • “Attacks on antidepressants”
        • “Discontinuation syndrome”: sophistry of the drug industry
        • “groupthink”
        • “It is all too fashionable for psychiatry to be dismissed along with the medical model”
        • “Objectivity” does not come in a title
        • “The Coulson effect”?
        • ‘At least 500 million years of nervous system evolution’
        • ‘Tens of thousands of children’
          • Adolescent depression and anxiety
        • ‘The tide may be turning’
        • ‘They say no’
        • ‘What steps can be taken to ensure that patient voices are listened to and heard’
        • A moral duty
          • RCPsych response to BBC Panorama
        • A Survey of the provision of support and withdrawal services for patients dependent on prescription drugs
        • A timeline of missed opportunities
          • “Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”
        • ALARMS IGNORED
        • An open letter to the incoming President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”
          • Words and numbers should be used with equal care
        • Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms -Telephone calls to a national medication helpline
        • Antidepressant withdrawal with Tony Kendrick and Mark Horowitz
        • Aripiprazole Augmentation in Older Persons with Treatment-Resistant Depression
        • Big Pharma with the help of the British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Collective values of an organisation in the era of social media
          • ‘A fantastic insight’
          • RCPsych Presidential elections [2022/23]: in support of Dr Kate Lovett
        • Coming off antidepressants
        • Compelling evidence
          • ‘Unpicked’ by an Expert
        • Cumberlege Report: First Do No Harm
          • A reply to Professor Robert Howard
            • A loss to science
          • CIRCLE values
          • Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?
            • Criticising psychiatry is still not ‘anti-psychiatry’
          • Language and professional values
            • ‘Why all this nastiness?’: Twitter
            • 2019: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
            • 2022: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
            • A College Spokesperson
          • Language Matters: indeed it does
          • Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ
          • Medicine’s contract with society
          • Polypropylene Mesh Implants
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: past, present and future
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: the profession speaks
          • Psychiatrist #1 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #2 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #3 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #4 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #5 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • RCPsych values courage of its members and staff [but not, it seems, of patients]
          • Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
            • “Cult of Rob”
            • “flattering and gratifying”
            • “Stay classy”
            • ‘outside the circle of listeners’
            • Do doctors need to be told to be kind?
            • Labelled
            • The case for kindness
            • the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer
        • Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]
        • Discontinuation of antidepressant therapy [1997 symposium]
        • From the individual to the Institution
        • Gilbert Farie Revisited
        • Going off antidepressants – take time to quit
        • It is by living that we learn
        • outside the circle of listeners
        • Pattern language: the professionals
        • Position Statement on antidepressants and depression
          • Some immediate reactions
        • RCPsych [Prescribed harm]
          • “Another me exists”
          • “Casual false reassurances”
          • “Pill Shaming”
          • “We care about our crest and it is sad to see it used this way”
          • A letter in the Times
          • An extraordinary divide
          • Antidepressant withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • SIBERIA
          • The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
          • unanswered
        • Realistic prescribing
          • “80% might be false positive”
          • “It’s BOOM time in Industry”
          • “That prescription figure is high”
          • “The biggest effect on human health is commercial determinants”
          • ‘A generation in crisis’
          • ‘Medicine remains a conflicted as ever’
          • ‘The Medical Untouchables’
          • Aye RIGHT!
          • CHEMIST and DRUGGIST [heard the whisper?]
          • Moderate to severe depression: No evidence that CBT is less effective than antidepressants
          • New ADHD resource [missing information]
          • Our own window
          • Psychiatry in Fabula
          • RSM Health Matters Podcast: Episode 1 – Antidepressants
          • Science Media Centre
            • STAKEHOLDERS
          • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for the Elderly
          • Serotonin: What is its role in treating depression?
          • The Award culture of British Psychiatry
          • The Narrative Controllers
            • ‘Chumcentric’
            • Misuse of influence
            • Soft Power [and telling stories]
          • The Neon Yellow Preservation Society
          • the starting-point
          • Unanswered
        • Royal College of Psychiatrists: “Necessary redactions have been made”
        • S Y M B O L I C
        • Something is amiss with CR229
        • Stigma and Psychiatry
        • suicide cairns
        • The ANTLER trial
          • Published letters on the ANTLER Trial
        • The need for antidepressant withdrawal services
        • The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm]
          • “Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”
          • “Villains and Demonisers”
          • ‘Antidepressant use: changing patterns, cost and clinical effectiveness’
          • Antidepressants (Overuse)
          • Antidepressants: ‘no good evidence’ for long-term use
        • The serotonin hypothesis of depression: both long discarded and still supported
        • This ‘U-turn’ has taken 30 years
        • We must heed the lessons of experience
        • Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care
      • Trial by Anecdote
      • Unrealistic Medicine
    • Architecture
      • ‘The Story of Drummond Place’
      • 18 Kilrymont Road
      • Abbotsford
      • Andrew Crosbie’s House
      • Auchinleck House
      • Bute House
      • Charles Brand Ltd
      • Dalhousie Memorial Arch
      • Drummond Place, Edinburgh
      • Edinburgh’s first Theatre
      • Forglen Mausoleum
      • Gladney House
      • Glasgow Necropolis
      • GOLDBERGS
      • Hermits and Termits
      • Hospitalfield House
      • Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
      • Kildonan House
      • Kinneil House
      • Laverock Dale Cottage
      • Mar Lodge, Stirling
      • McCaig’s Tower, Oban
      • Moatbrae House, Dumfries
      • Monument to the Political Martyrs’
      • Muschat’s cairn
      • Old Royal High School, Edinburgh
      • Scottish architectural follies
      • SeaPark
      • Shakespeare Square
      • St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
      • Temple of the Muses
      • TEMPLE [Cupar]
      • The galleria
      • The Red Road flats
      • The Wallace Monument
      • The Well of the Seven Heads
      • Tower of Glenstrae
      • Warriston Gates
    • Ardeer Explosive’s Factory
    • Bridges
      • Abergeldie foot-bridge
      • Boat o’Brig
      • Brewlands bridge
      • Broom of Moy
      • Broomhill wooden bridge
      • Faery Bridge, Dunblane
      • Forth Road Bridge
      • Garva bridge
      • Haugh of Drimmie
      • Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
      • Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
      • Millhaugh bridge
      • Old White Bridge
      • Tay Bridge
      • The bridge to nowhere
      • The Glenfinnan Viaduct
      • The Old Bridge of Livet
      • Twa Gables
    • CITIES
      • Films about ABERDEEN
      • Films about DUNDEE
      • Films about EDINBURGH
      • Films about GLASGOW
      • Films about PERTH
      • Films about STIRLING
    • D.L.R.O.W
      • The mild cigar
    • Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
    • Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
    • landscapes (time held green)
      • ‘Hill of the Resurrection’
      • Carsebreck
      • Cliff House
      • Dunbuy
      • Duncryne
      • Garden Archaeology
      • Gardeners
        • ‘Gardener Found Insane’
        • A high summer garden
        • A new generation of gardeners
        • A Nursery Manager
        • Abergeldie’s gardener
        • Alexander Gibson
        • Alexander Marr
        • Alexander Walker
        • Arbigland’s gardener
        • Boghead, Bathgate
        • Carnbroe’s gairdener
        • Charles Bell, Ormistoun Hall
        • Charles Frampton
        • Charles Webster
        • COREHOUSE
        • David Pringle Laird
        • Davina, Lady Stair
        • Eagle and Henderson
        • Glassingall Gardener
        • Glentulchan gardener
        • Helen Carmichael
        • James Hossack, Castle Cluny
        • James Ironside
        • James Sutherland
        • John Halliday
        • John Wright Paton
        • Last of Horse Wynd
        • Miss Hope
        • Monty Don
        • Ninian Niven
        • No.1 Shrub Place
        • OLDEST GARDENER
        • Patrick’s garden
        • Peter and Sian’s garden
        • Peter Gordon, gardener
        • Peter Rankin, Glen Creran
        • Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’
        • Peter Thomson: ‘the patient art of fieldwalking’
        • R E E K I A N A
        • Return to the seed
        • Robert Graham of Tamrawer
        • Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens
        • Robert Rust
        • Scotland’s Silver Glen
        • Teri and Paul Hodge-Neale
        • That garden [on either side of the burn]
        • The Abbotsford gardener
        • The Astronomical Gardener
        • The auld gardener
        • The Edzell Castle gardeners
        • The gardener of Finca Vigia
        • The gentle gardener
        • The Queen’s Gardener
        • The Sisters’ Garden
        • Thomas Cleghorn
        • Tom Spence
        • Under Gardener [D U N I R A]
        • Volunteer gardener
        • Wellington Dauncey
        • William Rutherford
      • Garrel Glen
      • Gauch
      • Glen Girnoc
        • Abergeldie castle
        • Bovaglie
          • Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)
          • The Bovaglie manuscript
        • Loinveg
        • The Camlet
      • Glenbardy
      • ISLANDS
        • Alloa Inch
        • Eilean Fhianain
        • Eilean nam Faoileag
        • Eilean Subhainn
        • Inchcolm island
        • Linga Isle
        • Lismore
        • Lucky Scaup
        • Samalaman
        • St Kilda
        • Vallay
      • Jock’s Road
      • Kilmadock churchyard
      • Leckie Glen
      • Little Sparta
      • Lochnagar
      • Stronmilchan
      • The Devil’s Pulpit
      • The Dragon’s Hole
      • The Hill
      • The John Muir Way
      • The living mountain
      • The Lost Garden of Dunira
      • The lost garden of Penicuik
      • The suicide graves
      • Wanzie
    • Mental Health Tsar
    • Mortar and Pestles
    • Necessity Brae
    • Rogues’ Gallery
      • Duncan Paton
      • Helen Nicholson
      • John Grovenor
      • John Moir
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Homewhere time passes (listen)Folk worth talking aboutThe Lass o’ the Lecht

The Lass o’ the Lecht

28 May 2021. ‘Hale Bopp’,  the ‘Pawky Duchess of Lost’ and Peter, travelled north to visit the ‘lass o’ the lecht’:

THE LASS O’ THE LECHT
[Please click on image below to play a short film]

01 The Lass o' the Lecht - Gibbie McIntosh
Aberdeen Arms, Tarland - Social subjects - poem 3b
ballintomb
Banffshire Journal 8 May 1860 - Margaret Cruickshank, Lecht
from Ballintomb - George Washington Wilson
Lecht 1937
Lecht -Press and Journal - 4 May 1937
Lecht -Press and Journal - 5 May 1937
Lecht -Press and Journal - 8 May 1937
Lecht -Scotsman - 4 May 1937
Margaret Cruickshank 4 Feb 1869 - death certificate
The Lass o' the Lecht - Peter Gordon
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (1)
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (2)
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (3)
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (4)
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (5)
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (6)
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (9)
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (11)
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (12)
Tombs in Corgraff of Margaret Cruickshank and an 'UNKNOWN MAN' [photos 28 May 2021] (14)

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      • Timely diagnosis of dementia
        • Dementia: the “epidemic” of metaphors
        • Dementia: who is in the “driving seat”?
        • I was concerned about our most elderly
        • Role of cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia care needs rethinking
        • Scotland’s approach to Dementia Diagnosis
        • Sertraline and Mirtazapine for depression in dementia [HTA-SADD]
        • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
          • “This House supports the early detection of dementia”
            • The result: ‘Motion defeated’
          • Anti-amyloid immunotherapies: low benefit/risk ratio
            • “The data point to beta-amyloid playing a minor aetiological role”
            • ‘Therapy related brain damage’
            • Estimating the true value: Aducanumab and Donanemab for Early Alzheimer Disease
          • Back in the driving seat: Industry
            • Joint Letter by Alzheimer’s Scientists
          • Dementia Case-Finding: language and ethics
          • Donanemab [TRAILBLAZER]
            • “The hyperbole in the media and scientific response is unjustified and cruel to patients”
            • Brain volume loss due to Donanemab
            • Donanemab: bleeding and Seizures
            • Donanemab:’The results may be misleading’
          • EPAD co-coordinator: Professor Craig Ritchie
          • Glasgow Memory Clinic
          • Hide and Seek
          • In a “muddle”?
          • Issues not considered in the ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
          • National Clinical Director for Dementia
          • Professor says: “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
            • absurdum
          • Scottish Brain Sciences
            • Adverts for ‘Scottish Brain Sciences’
          • Snakes, ladders and Monopoly
          • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’ – a timeline
        • Wandering, wondering and worrying
      • Under-valued ideas
    • Deeside Tales
      • Short films about Deeside
      • To be humbled.
    • Diary of a house
      • Pianos and Flowers
    • Films made by Peter
      • 3 films that almost ended my career
      • A maker of beautiful books
        • The Great Tapestry of Scotland
      • A new way of seeing
      • A Thousand Chances
      • Alive in the river of light
      • Angelology
      • Bridge of Allan
      • bridges
      • Canto two
      • Finding Cimbrone
      • Folk worth talking about
      • friendship itself
      • Glenbardy
      • Go seek adventures
      • Here is where we meet
      • I am part of all that I have met
      • Important note about my films
      • in its ending
      • incorrigibly plural
      • It was the singing
      • Language is leaving me
      • Let the anchor go
      • Little Sparta
      • living mountains
      • man with the child in his eyes
      • Marginalia
      • mathematically me
      • Mossgrove garden
      • my library-haunting self
      • of an Antiquary
      • Oor big braw Cosmos
      • Political pieces
      • Progress hardly broke its stride
      • sensitive to the faltering steps of age
      • Sheramoor
      • Stravaiging need not be lonely
      • The anatomy of emotion
      • the blue flower
      • The bright cave under the hat
      • The Cabrach
      • the Glentruim series
      • The Rebel Antiquary
      • They fell for us
      • this gifted gardener [I discovered one day]
      • Time passes. Listen
      • To see what Scott saw:
      • Trees: age and beauty do go together
      • [Series II]
    • Firrhill High School
    • Hole Ousia [what does it mean?]
    • Mavisbank
      • On Esca’s Flow’ry Bank
      • Short films about Mavisbank
    • MEDICINE
      • Films about MEDICINE
      • Films about PSYCHIATRY
      • Films and Sapere Aude
      • Films on ETHICS
      • Films on Professional VALUES
      • Films that consider ‘First Do No Harm’
    • My dissertation on hedges
    • My schooling
    • One-word poems
    • Peter’s poems
    • Publications in the “Leopard”
    • The Ageing Stone
    • The making of the future
    • The speaking hedge
    • What is in a name?
  • being and becoming
    • “A place with no quotation marks”
    • Academic reductionisms
    • Admissions of doubt
    • Ariel
    • Cell Mates
    • Medical “truants”
    • Multifarious learners
      • A fortunate man
      • Dr Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
      • Dr Arthur J. Brock
      • Dr Arthur Mitchell
      • Dr Daniel Reid Rankin
      • Dr Gavin Francis
      • Dr James Sheridan Knowles
      • Dr Leon Eisenberg
      • Dr Samuel Brown (1817 – 1856)
      • Edmund de Waal
      • Edward Victor Appleton
      • Femi Oyebode
      • Francis Seymour Haden
      • George Washington Wilson
      • Graham Watt
      • James Clerk Maxwell
      • James Ferguson
      • James Skene
      • John Berger
        • Here is where we meet
      • John Frederick William Herschel
      • K. J. Fowler
      • Kenneth Calman
      • Mr and Mrs Rose
      • Nadar
      • Patrick Matthew
      • Rev George Gilfillan
      • Richard Feynman
      • Scottish women writers
      • Sir Harry Burns
      • Theodore Dalrymple
      • Thomas Browne
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Lewson Burrowes
      • William Ramsay
    • Philosophers
      • Albert Camus
      • Andrew Greig
      • Dr John Flaxman
      • Dugald Stewart
      • John Macmurray
      • John Stuart Mill
      • Mary Midgley
      • Raymond Tallis
    • Poets
      • Alexander laing
      • Bill Douglas
      • Caledonian Antisyzygy
      • Carol Ann Duffy
      • Daniel Abse
      • Edwin Morgan
      • Iain Banks
      • Iain Crichton Smith
      • Ivor Gurney
      • James Hyslop
      • James M Slimmon
      • John Betjeman
      • John Halliday
      • Kathleen Jamie
      • Kieron Winn
      • La Teste
      • Leonard Cohen
      • Liz Lochhead
      • Norman MacCaig
      • Patrick Deeley
      • Paul Muldoon
      • Peter Davidson
      • Rab Wilson
      • Rabbie Burns
      • Robert Fergusson
      • Robert Nicholl
      • Robert Pollok
      • Robin Hyde
      • Sylvia Plath
      • T S Eliot
      • Ted Hughes
      • Tom Leonard
      • Tomas Tranströmer
      • Wilfred Owen
      • William Carlos Williams
      • William Soutar
    • Sapere Aude
      • A bit of a prat
      • a very clever young man
      • Caroline Phillips
      • Chrys Muirhead
      • Claire Fox
      • Dr Donald Brownlie
      • Dr Margaret McCartney
      • Fara McAfee
      • Gawaine Baillie
      • Gerald
      • Hale-Bopp
      • Humpty Dumpty
      • I mistook myself for a scientific label
      • Jessie Lennox (a Nightingale)
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Aubrey
      • King Kong
      • Margaret Maberley Gordon
      • O. G. S. Crawford
      • Omphatyp’
      • Owen Jones
      • Richard Holloway
      • Richard Taylor
      • Roy Porter
      • Stanley Murray
    • Writers
      • A L Kennedy
      • A S Byatt
      • Adam Nicolson
      • Alan Trotter
      • Alexander McCall Smith
      • Ali Smith
      • Alice Hoffman
      • Andrew Greig
      • Andrew Miller
      • Annalena MacAfee
      • Anne Tyler
      • Anthony Doerr
      • Candia McWilliam
      • Cesare Pavese
      • Charlotte Peacock
      • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
      • David Szalay
      • Deborah Levy
      • Douglas Stuart
      • E M Forster
      • Emily Fridlund
      • Ernest Hemingway
      • Evelyn Waugh
      • Fiona Mozley
      • Ford Madox Ford
      • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
      • Gabriel García Marquez
      • Geoff Dyer
      • George Orwell
      • George Saunders
      • Hanya Yanagihara
      • Henry Mackenzie
      • Herman Melville
      • Howard Jacobson
      • Ian McEwan
      • Iris Murdoch
      • J. D. Salinger
      • Janice Galloway
      • Jessie Burton
      • John Buchan
      • John Lanchester
      • John Steinbeck
      • Julian Barnes
      • Kazuo Ishiguro
      • Lampedusa
      • Laurie Lee
      • Madeleine Thien
      • Marcel Proust
      • Margaret Drabble
      • Matt Haig
      • Max Porter
      • Mohsin Hamid
      • Mukul Kesavan
      • Muriel Spark
      • Nan Shepherd
      • Nathan Filer
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Otessa Moshfegh
      • Penelope Fitzgerald
      • Rachel Cusk
      • Richard Flanagan
      • Richard Holmes
      • Richard Yates
      • Roald Dahl
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Robert Seethaler
      • Rudyard Kipling
      • Sara Baume
      • Thomas Mann
      • Virginia Woolf
      • Vladimir Nabakov
      • Will Cohu
      • William Boyd
      • Yann Martel
  • in the world
    • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
      • “The influence of pharma is not excessive”
      • ‘Listen, let the people petition and be heard’
      • ‘To influence others by offering money’
      • A matter for others
      • Artificial light
      • Bring me a sunshine act
      • British Psychiatry: Marketing as ‘Education’
        • “A robust learning environment for healthcare professionals”
        • “A wrong un’ when you see it”
        • “An ethical relationship with pharma”
        • “Big Pharma Conspiracies”
        • “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
        • “Dominated by people against psychiatric medication”
        • “Excessive claims by drug firms”
        • “FULLY BOOKED”
          • Yet more “education” funded by Industry
        • “MacDonald’s to advise on childhood nutrition”
        • “P R O M I S C U O U S”
        • “The place to go to” for CPD
        • “We have an appropriately puritanical relationship with Pharma”
        • “Working with the drug industry—is your reputation at risk?”
        • ‘Fees for services’
        • ‘Industry Biased Medicine’
        • ‘Medical Education for the 21st Century’
        • ‘MEDICAL EDUCATION: In the grip of industry?’
        • ‘Psychiatry without borders’
        • ‘Trusted Information Creator’
        • ‘Welcome to Pharmacare’
        • 2013 International Congress: Defensiveness
        • 2017 International Congress: Psychiatry without Borders
          • “Performed well”
        • 2018 International Congress: Psychiatry: New Horizons
          • “He delivered piercing insights”
        • 2019 International Congress: The commercialisation and branding of a profession
        • ABC of Mental Health: Depression
        • BAP ‘educator’ on prescribing received $3,581,159 in payments from Pharma
        • BAP relationship with industry
          • A decade of BAP Summer Meetings
            • “BAPFEST”
            • An Erudite Encounter with Guy Goodwin
              • Lundbeck Institute: How should the education be provided and by whom?
              • Who’s paying your doctor
          • Guy Goodwin’s final blog as President of ECNP
          • Professor David Nutt: “The race is on to get it to market”
            • “Psychedelic drugs could soon treat alcoholism”
        • Conflict of interest and the British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Continuing Medical ‘Education’
        • Correspondence with the British Association for Psychopharmacology
        • Crappy Branded Stuff
        • Darkness prevails: the Royal College of Psychiatrists
          • “Questioning the Journal’s independence and lack of scientific explanation in the College’s response”
          • Royal colleges are urged to be more transparent on industry payments
        • Data Protection: The Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Is academic psychiatry for sale?
        • Is there evidence to support this statement?
        • It’s boom time for the College
        • Latuda: vigorously marketed in The UK
        • New Editor-in-Chief of The British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Paid Opinion Leaders
          • “What a moment to join the party”
          • ‘The race is on to get it to market’
          • 2022 BAP Annual General Meeting
          • 5 Live Science: Tackling Depression
          • A letter that the Scottish Parliament felt unable to publish
          • an extraordinary claim
          • Paid opinion leaders on public engagement
          • Professor David Nutt
          • The Royal College of Psychiatrists on sunshine legislation
        • Pharma payments to the Royal College of Psychiatrists [2019]
          • all that jingle-jangle of coins
        • Pharmaceutical influence and psychiatrists
        • Pharmavarsity
        • Prescribing Guidelines: let’s be transparent
        • Professors A, B, and C
        • Puritanical or Platinum?
          • RCPsych International Congress and BAP
            • Presidential handover
        • Rising stars: British Association of Psychopharmacology
        • Royal College of Psychiatrists: “This is a matter for the Government to decide”
          • “Shirking a leadership responsibility”
        • Satellite symposia and paid opinion leaders
        • Simon said
          • Has not left the building
        • The British Journal of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Industry advertising
          • “SPECIAL ARTICLE”
          • ‘AUTHENTICITY’
          • Are competing interests of authors sufficiently transparent?
        • The Defeat Depression Campaign
          • “Buy it, read it and recommend it!”
          • “CONSENSUS STATEMENT”
            • Managing depression in general practice
          • “Defeating depression in old age”
          • “Dista Products [for] Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993”
          • “Doctors gamble on a cure”
          • “Fear of dependency”
          • “Fun Run”
          • “Generously sponsored by Smith Kline & Beecham”
          • “Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
          • “The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
          • “To mount a glossy campaign on the basis of this method is frankly disturbing”
          • ‘Antidepressants unlimited’
          • ‘Continuing to defeat depression’
          • ‘Costs should have been considered’
          • ‘Defeat Depression: A European Perspective’
          • ‘Doctors’ Survey Sparks Campaign’
          • ‘Dyspeptic Dinner Entertainment’
          • ‘The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry’
          • ‘Warm-up led by former DJ of Capital Radio’
          • ‘We cannot be in the pockets of the Pharma companies’
          • ‘Why can’t GPs follow guidelines on depression?’
          • (orders 100+ at 25p per leaflet)
          • A summary of the Educational Components
          • After the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • An ‘Educational Campaign’ sponsored by Pharma
          • How to Defeat Depression
          • Is depression a chronic illness?
          • LILLY Pharmaceuticals: the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • Mass prescribing
          • My career began with the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • One-and-the-same
          • Psychiatry in General Practice: a ‘Campaign’ begins
          • Putting caring conversations into practice
          • RCPsych archive: 5 Boxes
          • SSRIs: “Public confidence needs to be restored”
          • The ‘Chemical imbalance’ theory
          • This historical campaign has vital lessons for today
          • Video Training Package
          • What Price Depression?
        • The latest ‘Platinum Sponsor’ for RCPsych conference
        • The Law of the Few
        • The mismatch
        • The President’s Lecture
        • The RCPsych Psychopharmacology Committee – influence of industry
        • Transparency and British Psychiatry: Hold the applause
        • Transparency at the Top
        • Who pays the piper?
      • Led Astray – Industry’s Influence on Drug and Device Watchdogs
      • Medicine remains as conflicted as ever
        • ‘Murky Stuff’
      • Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
        • “Attacks on antidepressants”
        • “Discontinuation syndrome”: sophistry of the drug industry
        • “groupthink”
        • “It is all too fashionable for psychiatry to be dismissed along with the medical model”
        • “Objectivity” does not come in a title
        • “The Coulson effect”?
        • ‘At least 500 million years of nervous system evolution’
        • ‘Tens of thousands of children’
          • Adolescent depression and anxiety
        • ‘The tide may be turning’
        • ‘They say no’
        • ‘What steps can be taken to ensure that patient voices are listened to and heard’
        • A moral duty
          • RCPsych response to BBC Panorama
        • A Survey of the provision of support and withdrawal services for patients dependent on prescription drugs
        • A timeline of missed opportunities
          • “Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”
        • ALARMS IGNORED
        • An open letter to the incoming President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”
          • Words and numbers should be used with equal care
        • Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms -Telephone calls to a national medication helpline
        • Antidepressant withdrawal with Tony Kendrick and Mark Horowitz
        • Aripiprazole Augmentation in Older Persons with Treatment-Resistant Depression
        • Big Pharma with the help of the British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Collective values of an organisation in the era of social media
          • ‘A fantastic insight’
          • RCPsych Presidential elections [2022/23]: in support of Dr Kate Lovett
        • Coming off antidepressants
        • Compelling evidence
          • ‘Unpicked’ by an Expert
        • Cumberlege Report: First Do No Harm
          • A reply to Professor Robert Howard
            • A loss to science
          • CIRCLE values
          • Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?
            • Criticising psychiatry is still not ‘anti-psychiatry’
          • Language and professional values
            • ‘Why all this nastiness?’: Twitter
            • 2019: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
            • 2022: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
            • A College Spokesperson
          • Language Matters: indeed it does
          • Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ
          • Medicine’s contract with society
          • Polypropylene Mesh Implants
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: past, present and future
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: the profession speaks
          • Psychiatrist #1 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #2 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #3 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #4 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #5 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • RCPsych values courage of its members and staff [but not, it seems, of patients]
          • Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
            • “Cult of Rob”
            • “flattering and gratifying”
            • “Stay classy”
            • ‘outside the circle of listeners’
            • Do doctors need to be told to be kind?
            • Labelled
            • The case for kindness
            • the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer
        • Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]
        • Discontinuation of antidepressant therapy [1997 symposium]
        • From the individual to the Institution
        • Gilbert Farie Revisited
        • Going off antidepressants – take time to quit
        • It is by living that we learn
        • outside the circle of listeners
        • Pattern language: the professionals
        • Position Statement on antidepressants and depression
          • Some immediate reactions
        • RCPsych [Prescribed harm]
          • “Another me exists”
          • “Casual false reassurances”
          • “Pill Shaming”
          • “We care about our crest and it is sad to see it used this way”
          • A letter in the Times
          • An extraordinary divide
          • Antidepressant withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • SIBERIA
          • The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
          • unanswered
        • Realistic prescribing
          • “80% might be false positive”
          • “It’s BOOM time in Industry”
          • “That prescription figure is high”
          • “The biggest effect on human health is commercial determinants”
          • ‘A generation in crisis’
          • ‘Medicine remains a conflicted as ever’
          • ‘The Medical Untouchables’
          • Aye RIGHT!
          • CHEMIST and DRUGGIST [heard the whisper?]
          • Moderate to severe depression: No evidence that CBT is less effective than antidepressants
          • New ADHD resource [missing information]
          • Our own window
          • Psychiatry in Fabula
          • RSM Health Matters Podcast: Episode 1 – Antidepressants
          • Science Media Centre
            • STAKEHOLDERS
          • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for the Elderly
          • Serotonin: What is its role in treating depression?
          • The Award culture of British Psychiatry
          • The Narrative Controllers
            • ‘Chumcentric’
            • Misuse of influence
            • Soft Power [and telling stories]
          • The Neon Yellow Preservation Society
          • the starting-point
          • Unanswered
        • Royal College of Psychiatrists: “Necessary redactions have been made”
        • S Y M B O L I C
        • Something is amiss with CR229
        • Stigma and Psychiatry
        • suicide cairns
        • The ANTLER trial
          • Published letters on the ANTLER Trial
        • The need for antidepressant withdrawal services
        • The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm]
          • “Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”
          • “Villains and Demonisers”
          • ‘Antidepressant use: changing patterns, cost and clinical effectiveness’
          • Antidepressants (Overuse)
          • Antidepressants: ‘no good evidence’ for long-term use
        • The serotonin hypothesis of depression: both long discarded and still supported
        • This ‘U-turn’ has taken 30 years
        • We must heed the lessons of experience
        • Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care
      • Trial by Anecdote
      • Unrealistic Medicine
    • Architecture
      • ‘The Story of Drummond Place’
      • 18 Kilrymont Road
      • Abbotsford
      • Andrew Crosbie’s House
      • Auchinleck House
      • Bute House
      • Charles Brand Ltd
      • Dalhousie Memorial Arch
      • Drummond Place, Edinburgh
      • Edinburgh’s first Theatre
      • Forglen Mausoleum
      • Gladney House
      • Glasgow Necropolis
      • GOLDBERGS
      • Hermits and Termits
      • Hospitalfield House
      • Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
      • Kildonan House
      • Kinneil House
      • Laverock Dale Cottage
      • Mar Lodge, Stirling
      • McCaig’s Tower, Oban
      • Moatbrae House, Dumfries
      • Monument to the Political Martyrs’
      • Muschat’s cairn
      • Old Royal High School, Edinburgh
      • Scottish architectural follies
      • SeaPark
      • Shakespeare Square
      • St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
      • Temple of the Muses
      • TEMPLE [Cupar]
      • The galleria
      • The Red Road flats
      • The Wallace Monument
      • The Well of the Seven Heads
      • Tower of Glenstrae
      • Warriston Gates
    • Ardeer Explosive’s Factory
    • Bridges
      • Abergeldie foot-bridge
      • Boat o’Brig
      • Brewlands bridge
      • Broom of Moy
      • Broomhill wooden bridge
      • Faery Bridge, Dunblane
      • Forth Road Bridge
      • Garva bridge
      • Haugh of Drimmie
      • Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
      • Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
      • Millhaugh bridge
      • Old White Bridge
      • Tay Bridge
      • The bridge to nowhere
      • The Glenfinnan Viaduct
      • The Old Bridge of Livet
      • Twa Gables
    • CITIES
      • Films about ABERDEEN
      • Films about DUNDEE
      • Films about EDINBURGH
      • Films about GLASGOW
      • Films about PERTH
      • Films about STIRLING
    • D.L.R.O.W
      • The mild cigar
    • Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
    • Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
    • landscapes (time held green)
      • ‘Hill of the Resurrection’
      • Carsebreck
      • Cliff House
      • Dunbuy
      • Duncryne
      • Garden Archaeology
      • Gardeners
        • ‘Gardener Found Insane’
        • A high summer garden
        • A new generation of gardeners
        • A Nursery Manager
        • Abergeldie’s gardener
        • Alexander Gibson
        • Alexander Marr
        • Alexander Walker
        • Arbigland’s gardener
        • Boghead, Bathgate
        • Carnbroe’s gairdener
        • Charles Bell, Ormistoun Hall
        • Charles Frampton
        • Charles Webster
        • COREHOUSE
        • David Pringle Laird
        • Davina, Lady Stair
        • Eagle and Henderson
        • Glassingall Gardener
        • Glentulchan gardener
        • Helen Carmichael
        • James Hossack, Castle Cluny
        • James Ironside
        • James Sutherland
        • John Halliday
        • John Wright Paton
        • Last of Horse Wynd
        • Miss Hope
        • Monty Don
        • Ninian Niven
        • No.1 Shrub Place
        • OLDEST GARDENER
        • Patrick’s garden
        • Peter and Sian’s garden
        • Peter Gordon, gardener
        • Peter Rankin, Glen Creran
        • Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’
        • Peter Thomson: ‘the patient art of fieldwalking’
        • R E E K I A N A
        • Return to the seed
        • Robert Graham of Tamrawer
        • Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens
        • Robert Rust
        • Scotland’s Silver Glen
        • Teri and Paul Hodge-Neale
        • That garden [on either side of the burn]
        • The Abbotsford gardener
        • The Astronomical Gardener
        • The auld gardener
        • The Edzell Castle gardeners
        • The gardener of Finca Vigia
        • The gentle gardener
        • The Queen’s Gardener
        • The Sisters’ Garden
        • Thomas Cleghorn
        • Tom Spence
        • Under Gardener [D U N I R A]
        • Volunteer gardener
        • Wellington Dauncey
        • William Rutherford
      • Garrel Glen
      • Gauch
      • Glen Girnoc
        • Abergeldie castle
        • Bovaglie
          • Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)
          • The Bovaglie manuscript
        • Loinveg
        • The Camlet
      • Glenbardy
      • ISLANDS
        • Alloa Inch
        • Eilean Fhianain
        • Eilean nam Faoileag
        • Eilean Subhainn
        • Inchcolm island
        • Linga Isle
        • Lismore
        • Lucky Scaup
        • Samalaman
        • St Kilda
        • Vallay
      • Jock’s Road
      • Kilmadock churchyard
      • Leckie Glen
      • Little Sparta
      • Lochnagar
      • Stronmilchan
      • The Devil’s Pulpit
      • The Dragon’s Hole
      • The Hill
      • The John Muir Way
      • The living mountain
      • The Lost Garden of Dunira
      • The lost garden of Penicuik
      • The suicide graves
      • Wanzie
    • Mental Health Tsar
    • Mortar and Pestles
    • Necessity Brae
    • Rogues’ Gallery
      • Duncan Paton
      • Helen Nicholson
      • John Grovenor
      • John Moir
      • John Yates alias John Hewitt, Patrick Hines, John Miller, John Roy
      • Peter [alias John]
      • Philip Hughes
      • The Highland Hotel Robbers
      • William Slater
    • The Great Globe
    • The Jam factory
    • Trees
      • Adam and Eve [Eden Place, Rothesay]
      • Balmachie Plane tree
      • Beauly’s Wych Elm
      • Cathedral of trees
      • Goodnestone chestnut tree
      • One way of measuring a tree
      • Seven Sisters Oak
      • Sir Walter Scott’s Tree
      • The Benvie Ash tree
      • The bicycle tree
      • The Bonhill Ash trees
      • The Chapel Tree: ‘Early Man in the Scottish Landscape’
      • The Dule Tree[s] of Newark Castle
      • The Lanrick stone tree
      • The oldest and largest tree in the world
      • The Tree of Mains
      • The Wallace Oak
      • The Yellow Gowan Tree
      • Trunk of an Oak tree
      • Yew trees
        • Adam and Eve Yews
        • An incredibly ancient child
        • “When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree”
        • Chapel of the Yew Trees
        • Craigend Yew
        • Earlshall [shapes abandoned]
        • I Vow Yew
        • Rockingham elephants
        • Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees
        • St Columba’s Yew
        • Stow on Wold Yews
        • The Abbotshall Yew
        • The Auchendrane Yew
        • The circular Yew hedge
        • The Culfargie Yew
        • The Fraser Yew
        • The Inchbrakie Yew
        • The little loch of the yew grove
        • The Ormiston Yew
        • The Raploch Yew
        • The Somerleyton Yew
        • The Wallace Yew
    • Waverley
  • Mind The Gap
  • where time passes (listen)
    • Bridge of Allan
      • ‘Quote of the week’
      • A bridge over the Allan Water
      • Bridge of Allan gardens
      • Chemists and Apothecaries
        • Charles Neil Rutherfoord
        • Gilbert Farie
        • Oswald Robertson
      • Drumdruills
        • Beware the Fly!
        • Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
        • Millad
        • Miss Jessie lennox
        • Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
        • Rab Scott
        • Stevenson’s cave
        • The Wharry Glen
        • The Wrights of Loss
      • Films about BRIDGE of ALLAN
      • Fire Brigade
      • Fountain of Nineveh
        • A dry fountain that once gushed and sparkled in the sunlight
      • History
        • ‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
        • ARCHIVE [old photographs and writings]
        • Craig Mair
        • Glimpses of Local History
        • Landmarks of Bridge of Allan
      • Lecropt
        • ‘A Lecropt Girl’
        • Keir Estate, Stirling
        • Keirfield
          • David Rutherfoord
        • Lecropt and Larger Scotland
        • Ten summers fade
        • The Rutherfoord letters
      • Mossgrove
        • Arborglyphs
        • Diary of a house
        • FAMILY films
        • Hale Bopp
        • He cannot unlearn the feeling
        • MERRYTHOUGHT
        • Mossgrove garden
        • Our cats
        • Our graffiti bench
        • The Medicine is in Aberdeen
        • The son of a Bank Manager
        • This is not yesterday
        • Tillybin
          • VANDAL
        • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
        • We follow them, as they are us
      • Photographs of Bridge of Allan
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Sheriffmuir
      • Shops, buildings and houses
        • 105 Henderson Street
        • Fernfield
        • John Cullens
        • Museum Hall
        • Music Hall
          • Mrs Hamilton
          • Professor Ewart
          • Professor Whitworth
        • Our first village shop
        • SPA CLEAN [ZERO WASTE]
        • St Ann’s
        • The Cleopatra needle
        • The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
        • The Well House, Bridge of Allan
      • The Ochils
        • Ashintrool
        • Hercules
        • in a SERIES II Land Rover
        • Jerah
      • Village doctors
        • Dr Alexander Wilkie Paterson
        • Dr Andrew S. Biggart
        • Dr Balbirnie
        • Dr Eric Dow
        • Dr John Hosack Fraser
        • Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord
        • Dr Mary Baird Hannah
        • Dr William Eagleson Gordon
        • Dr William Haldane
        • Dr William Halliday Welsh
      • Villagers [old and new]
        • A poet as well as a gardener
        • Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s
        • Finn Russell
        • Hector Dove
        • Holed out in ONE!
        • John McCaig
        • Mrs Fridge
        • Old Village Worthies
        • Remembering Ian and Malcolm
        • Rev Charles Rogers
        • The Owl Man
        • The Tufty Club
        • Waller Hugh Paton
    • Dunblane
      • Andy Murray
      • Dunblane Cathedral reopens
    • Folk worth talking about
      • “Dr Frederick Adair”
      • ‘Big Kate’
      • ‘Black’ John Skirving
      • ‘Bob Dragon’
      • ‘Dr William Brodum”
      • ‘SCOTUS’
      • ‘Whistling Willie,’ the LION MAN
      • A Big Burd
      • A Railway-Porter Astronomer
      • Agnes Mary
      • Albert Ernest Pickard
      • Alexander Munnoch
      • Alexander Ormiston Curle
      • Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA
      • Allison
      • Aloysius
      • Andrew Wilson
      • Angus John Campbell
      • Ann Shaw
      • Anne Grant of Laggan
      • Annie Graham Baird
      • Arthur
      • As strove this man who
      • Aubrey Beardsley
      • Betty Mouat
      • Burrish Lyons
      • C. P. Snow
      • Captain Alexander Morrison
      • Captain Michael Slater
      • Captain Peter Gordon
      • Captain Phillips
      • Carol Colburn Grigor
      • Caroline Stuart Clarke
      • Charlotte Skinner
      • Clive Wright
      • Colin McWilliam
      • CYNICUS
      • Dandie Dinmont
      • Dani Garavelli
      • Daniel Muirhead
      • David Bowie
      • Davina Gordon
      • Diana Rigg
      • Doddie Weir
      • Dr John Stuart
      • Dr Pat Beausang
      • Dr Quackleben
      • Drue Heinz
      • Elijah Wood
      • Elizabeth and Ada
      • Ella Rae
      • Emma Raducanu
      • Ena Scott
      • Eric Redmond
      • Esmé Gordon
      • Felix Feneon
      • Florence Taylor
      • Francis Moncrieff
      • Fynes Moryson
      • Geoffrey Jellicoe
      • Gregory’s girl
      • Gunnar Jungner
      • Hannah Ann Stirling
      • Hector Dove
      • Henrietta
      • Ian Collins
      • Ignotus ex Aquis
      • Ion Keith-Falconer
      • Ivor Gurney
      • J. J. R. Macleod
      • Jacob Forster
      • James Ferguson
      • James Maxwell Glover Wilson
      • James Muir
      • James Woodburn Dunlop
      • Jane Creighton
      • Janet B Wood
      • Janetta Sophie Dalglish Pollock
      • Jenny Nettles
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Byrne
      • John Glen Parker
      • John Mackenzie Bacon
      • John Marshall Scott
      • John Ramsay of Ochtertyre
      • John Wilson
      • Johnston Shearer
      • Joseph Gordon
      • Kenneth Kuanda
      • Lord Esher
      • Margaret Mary Risk
      • Mary Melvill
      • Mary Wollstonecraft
      • Miss Christina Gib
      • Mr Perpetual Motion
      • Mrs Crudelius
      • MRS H B B Paull
      • Mrs Hendry
      • Mrs Picken
      • My Great Uncle Peter
      • Nancy Prentice
      • Octavius Morgan
      • Oliver Postgate
      • Oswald Bates
      • Patrick Geddes
      • Peter Pan
      • Professor Cairo
      • Prophet Peden
      • PUDDIN’
      • Rashiebog
      • REDCAR
      • Rev. I. M. Jolly
      • Robert Atkinson
      • Robert Cornelius
      • Robert Hutchison
      • Saad F Ghalib
      • Sally Scott
      • Scipio
      • Shane Mac Thomáis
      • Sian Fiona Williams
      • Simon Sutherland
      • Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster
      • Snibs
      • Sophia Jex-Blake
      • Tam Dalyell
      • Terry Burns
      • The Buchanites
      • The Lass o’ the Lecht
      • The Lighthouse Georgesons
      • The Odd Dr Todd
      • The Red Lady
      • The Wizard of the North
      • Thomas Hastie Bryce
      • Tom John Moore
      • William Borthwick
      • William Delacour
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Graham
      • William Hay Leith Tester
      • Winifred Roberts
    • Ruins
      • A modern ruin
      • Aberdeen
        • 142 King Street, Aberdeen
        • Royal Cornhill Hospital
      • Aberdeenshire
        • 20 Main Street, Buckpool
        • Auchtavan
        • Bridgealehouse
        • Brodie’s cairn
        • Brucklay castle
        • Castle Newe
        • Clinterty
        • Croy House
        • East Lodge, Aberlour House
        • Glen Girnoc
          • Bovaglie
          • Loinveg
          • The Camlet
        • Glencowie, Strathdon
        • Kingseat Hospital
        • Knowsie House
        • Largue, Glenkindie
        • Lessendrum House
        • Nether Buckie: covered water reservoir
        • Pennan farm
        • Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
        • South Milton Cottage
        • the Cabrach
          • Auchmair
          • Bank
          • Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach
          • Buck, Cabrach
          • Cabrach Shooting Lodge
          • Gauch
          • Glenfiddich Shooting Lodge
          • Largue, Cabrach
          • Powneed, Cabrach
          • Tombain, Cabrach
          • Upper Cabrach School
        • The Temple of Polmona [or fame]
        • Thornbush, Gourdon
        • Tollafraick, Glenkindie
        • Whitehaugh Mausoleum
      • Angus
        • Aldbar castle
        • Aldbar Chapel
        • Fishtown of Usan
        • Fraser Mausoleum and Mortuary Chapel
        • Kincaldrum House
        • Knowegreens Inn
        • Lindertis
        • Maison Dieu, Brechin
        • Maulesden
        • Meigle steading
        • Panmure House
        • Rossie castle
        • Strathella
        • Tirlybirly
        • Torwood Cottage
      • Argyllshire
        • Badnaiska, Loch Awe
        • Barbreck Mausoleum and Folly
        • Bathwell, Rosneath
        • Dalmally Tabernacle
        • Glen Fruin Schoolhouse
        • Kilneuair Chapel
        • Oban Hydropathic
        • Rosneath Castle
        • The Clock Lodge
        • The Kist
        • Turnalt
        • W A T C H M A N
      • Ayrshire
        • ANGEL Inn
        • Auchinleck Summerhouse
        • Caldwell House
        • Catrine House
        • Chapel farmhouse
        • Cleikum Inn
        • Craigends House
        • Dalquharron
        • Fullarton’s Folly
        • Glenure [Glenover]
        • Greenock Tempietto
        • High Dalblair
        • Oswald’s Temple
        • The Dutch Gable House
        • The Macrae Monument
        • The Viking Cinema
        • Whigham Inn
      • Bardrill farm
      • Clackmannanshire
        • Alva Ice House
        • Cherryton Brick Works
        • Hartshaw Tower
        • Sheardale House
        • The Garlet
        • Tullibody House
      • Dumfriesshire
        • Barnbarroch
        • Carnsalloch
        • Cormilligan
        • Crawthat cottage
        • Gelston castle
        • Gordonston
        • Kenmure castle
        • The H E R M I T A G E [Friars’ Carse]
      • Dunbartonshire
        • Dunglass Castle and Bell’s Memorial
        • The Friends of Truth burial ground
        • Woodbank House, Balloch
      • Dundee
      • Edinburgh
        • Allan Ramsay’s House
        • Bristo Port
        • Cammo House and Estate
        • Dryden, Bilston Glen
        • Edinburgh’s Orphan Hospital
        • Edmonstone house and park
        • Falcon Hall
        • Gilmerton House
        • Hawkhill Villa
        • Patriothall Laundry
        • PIPE Lane
        • Rockville, Edinburgh
        • Shakespeare Square
        • St Leonard’s
        • The Drummond Scrolls
      • England
        • Blackborough House
      • Fife
        • 24/26 High Street West, Anstruther
        • Abdie Curling House
        • Balyarrow
        • Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay
        • Castlehill Colliery
        • Corston Mill
        • Craighall castle
        • Crawford Priory
        • Dunbog House
        • Kilmaron castle
        • Largo House
        • Lucky Scaup
        • Siberia
        • St Fort, Newport, Fife
        • The Binn
        • The Temple of Decision
        • Thornton Fever Hospital
      • Forth Valley
        • Alloa Inch
        • Avondale House
        • Bandeath armaments depot
        • Bannockburn House
        • Buckieside
        • Carnock House
        • Carron House
        • Club’s Tomb
        • Cowiehall
        • Craigton mausoleum
        • Drumnessie
        • Dunmore House
        • Glenhove tomb
        • Jawhills
        • Kennetpans
        • Lathallan House
        • Lochgreen
        • Orchardhead, Bothkennar
        • Rullie
        • Scotland’s Close, Bo’ness
        • Stockiemuir Anti-Aircraft Battery
        • Stoneyinch farm
        • Tamrawer
        • Westfield viaduct
      • Glasgow
        • Balmoral Crescent
        • Dreghorn Mansion, Glasgow
        • Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium
        • Garngad House
        • Glasgow Green Station
        • Petershill
        • SINGER Factory, Clydebank
        • Walkinshaw House
      • Highlands
        • An Dachaidh
        • Dalnawillan Lodge
        • Helen’s Well
        • Mains of Ulbster
        • Poltalloch
        • Rosehall House
        • Vallay
      • Invernesshire
        • Allt Catanach
        • Badnambiast
        • Ballachroan
        • Blaragie
        • Easter Limekilns
        • Glenbanchor
        • Heatherbell
        • Moy House
        • Ruichlachrie
        • Sronphadruig Lodge
      • Lanarkshire
        • Boathouse, Blantyre
        • Carmichael House
        • Carnbroe
        • Carstairs Mausoleum
        • Douglas Support
        • Dykehead, Strathaven
        • Eastend, Carmichael
        • Gilbertfield castle
        • Keeper’s House for Hamilton Mausoleum
        • Rawyards Cotton Mill
        • Shark’s Mouth, Coatbridge
        • Smyllum Park
      • Lochery
      • Lochrosque
      • Lothian
        • Amisfield, Haddington
        • Gosford Mausoleum
        • Hatton estate
        • Mavisbank
          • Mavisbank (as Clerk’s “villa”)
          • Mavisbank (maps and plans)
          • Mavisbank (newspaper cuttings)
          • Mavisbank (the Asylum years)
          • Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
          • Mavisbank: Talk to the Civic Trust Conference
        • Roseberry steading
        • Roslin Curling Pond
        • STOBS Gunpowder Mills
      • Perth
        • Custom House, Bridgend, Perth
      • Perthshire
        • Apollo’s Temple
        • Argaty House
        • Arnhall castle
        • Arnmore House
        • Auchloy
        • Auld Fossoway
        • Balboughty Dairy
        • Bardrill
        • Bishopsfauld
        • Blackford Farms Ltd
        • Boreland Cottage
        • Boreland Farmhouse
        • Braes of Doune
        • Broadley
        • Broomhill
        • Buttergask
        • Charlotte’s Cave
        • Craigmill cottage, Inverpeffray
        • Dillot
        • Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie
        • Dunalastair
        • Duncrub house
        • Dupplin West Lodge
        • Eilean nam Faoileag Folly, Loch Rannoch
        • Evelick castle
        • Feddal castle
        • Gannochan
        • Gascon Hall
        • Glendevon castle
        • Glenside
        • Glentulchan
        • Haldrick
        • Holmehill House
        • House of Nairne
        • Inchbrakie
        • Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’
        • Inverpeffary castle and library
        • Keirwoodhead
        • Kilmadock old churchyard
        • Knowehead, Blackford
        • Lairhill
        • Lanrick castle (demolished)
        • Lanrick Home farm
        • Little Tullybelton
        • Lynedoch
        • Maidsmill
        • Millearne
        • Muir o’Gill
        • Newton of Condie
        • Pitmiddle village
        • Powside
        • Rosecraig, Strathbraan
        • Side of Balhaldie
        • Straid
        • Stronhavie
        • Stronvar House
        • The Esher-Stank mausoleum
        • The Mercer Obelisk
        • Tombane
        • Topfauld farm
        • Tullybeagles Lodge
        • Upper Quoigs
        • West Dron Hill Farm
        • Wester Bow
        • Wester Clow
        • Whaick
        • Williamsfield cottage
      • Renfrewshire
        • Balrossie
      • Skye
        • Gesto House, Skye
        • Kingsborough, Skye
        • Totarder
      • Stirling
        • Borrowmeadow Farm
        • Carim Lodge
        • Christie Memorial Clock
        • Haugh of West Grange
        • Heathershot
        • Keir Home Farm
        • MARIEVILLE
        • Polmaise castle
        • Shielbrae
        • Steuartfield
        • Wanderwang
      • The Borders
        • Ellemhaugh
        • Haughhead
        • Hundy Mundy
        • Huntershall Inn, Dun Law
        • Lion Gate, West Lodges, Ladykirk House
        • Roxburgh House, Kelso
      • West Lothian
        • Almond or Haining castle
        • Auchengray House
        • Balbardie
        • Duntarvie castle
        • Grovemount
        • Kipps
        • Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar
        • Leadloch farm
        • Polkemmet Mausoleum
        • The REGAL Cinema
        • Waterloo Tower
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