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A few favourite films
A Sunshine Act for Scotland
Allan Young
Carmine Pariante
David Baldwin
David Nutt
David Taylor
Mark Taylor
PE01651: Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
Peter Haddad
Philip J Cowen
Polypropylene Mesh Implants
R Hamish McAllister-Williams
Simon Wessely
Stephen Lawrie
Art by omphalos
Contact
Curriculum vitae
Declaration of interests
Deeside Tales: The stories of a small glen
Family films
Gauch
Glen Girnoc: to be humbled.
Hale Bopp
Hercules
Hole Ousia: ‘beyont mizzerment’
Important note about my films
Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
Medical publications
Mossgrove
Omphatyp’
One word poems
‘Objectivity’: I strive beyond the talk
a grain
a selfish world more and less than all the stars
But is wasn’t he who exaggerated, it was they who reduced
I am me, backwards and forwards, I am me
it is one word and not a sentence
Somewhere between being, becoming, cells and stars
the unlived is the unknown
Our cats
Poems
Names
Publications in the “Leopard”
Testimonials for Dr P J Gordon
The Ageing Stone
The anatomy of emotion
The blue flower
The films of Omphalos
The man with the child in his eyes
The son of a Bank Manager
The speaking hedge
This is not yesterday
Tillybin
Timely diagnosis of dementia
Two cultures
Ursine familiars
We follow them, as they are us
being
Ariel
Ethics
Medical “truants”
Multifarious learners
A fortunate man
Dr Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Dr Daniel Reid Rankin
Dr Gavin Francis
Dr James Sheridan Knowles
Dr Leon Eisenberg
Dr Samuel Brown (1817 – 1856)
Edmund de Waal
Femi Oyebode
James Clerk Maxwell
John Berger
Here is where we meet
K. J. Fowler
Kenneth Calman
Mr and Mrs Rose
Nadar
Richard Feynman
Shibley Rahman
Sir Harry Burns
Theodore Dalrymple
William Lewson Burrowes
Philosophers
Albert Camus
Andrew Greig
Dr John Flaxman
Dugald Stewart
John Stuart Mill
Mary Midgley
Poets
Caledonian Antisyzygy
Daniel Abse
Edwin Morgan
Ian Crichton Smith
John Betjeman
Liz Lochhead
Norman MacCaig
Patrick Deeley
Rabbie Burns
Robert Fergusson
Robert Pollok
Robin Hyde
Sylvia Plath
T S Eliot
Ted Hughes
Tomas Tranströmer
Wilfred Owen
William Carlos Williams
William Soutar
Political pieces
Raymond Tallis
Sapere Aude
A bit of a prat
Binglety, Banglety, Bumpety
Chrys Muirhead
Claire Fox
Dr Donald Brownlie
Ella Rae
Ethics rather than rules
Fara McAfee
Gerald
Hale-Bopp
Humpty Dumpty
Jessie Lennox (a Nightingale)
John Aubrey
King Kong
Margaret Maberley Gordon
O. G. S. Crawford
Owen Jones
Reducing the world to pure logic
Richard Holloway
Roy Porter
Tam o’Shanter
The “Ologies”
The shock of the fall
Writers
A L Kennedy
A S Byatt
Adam Nicolson
Alexander McCall Smith
Alice Hoffman
Andrew Greig
Anne Tyler
Vinegar Girl
Anthony Doerr
Candia McWilliams
David Szalay
Deborah Levy
Ernest Hemingway
Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall
Ford Madox Ford
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gabriel García Márquez
Gavin Francis
George Orwell
Hanya Yanighara
Howard Jacobson
Iain Banks
Iris Murdoch
J. D. Salinger
Jessie Burton
John Buchan
John Steinbeck
Julian Barnes
Lampedusa
Laurie Lee
Madeleine Thien
Margaret Drabble
Matt Haig
Max Porter
Mukul Kesavan
Otessa Moshfegh
Penelope Fitzgerald
Richard Flanagan
Richard Holmes
Roald Dahl
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Seehaler
Rudyard Kipling
Sara Baume
Sylvia Plath
Thomas Mann
Will Cohu
William Boyd
in the world
Architecture
Abbotsford
Charles Brand Ltd
Dalhousie Memorial Arch
Glasgow Necropolis
Hermits and Termits
John Stuart McCaig
Kinneil House
Moatbrae House, Dumfries
Monument to the Political Martyrs’
Old Royal High School, Edinburgh
Robert Adam
Scottish architectural follies
Temple of the Muses
The Red Road flats
The Wallace Monument
Tower of Glenstrae
Ardeer Explosive’s Factory
Bridges
Abergeldie foot bridge
Forth Road Bridge
Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
The Glinfinnan Viaduct
D.L.R.O.W
The mild cigar
Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
Ena Scott
landscapes (time held green)
Carsebreck
Gauch
Glen Girnoc
Abergeldie castle
Bovaglie
The Bovaglie manuscript
Loinveg
The Camlet
Glenbardy
Hannah Ann Stirling
Henrietta’s grave
Inchcolm island
Jock’s Road
Kilmadock churchyard
Leckie Glen
Little Sparta
Lochnagar
Mossgrove
Orchards
Peter Davidson
St Kilda
Stigliano, Tuscany, Italy
The Dragon’s Hole
The Fortingall Yew
The Hill
The John Muir Way
The living mountain
The Lost Garden of Dunira
The suicide graves
Tillybin
Mortar and Pestles
Mrs Picken
Stories
The bicycle tree
The Jam factory
Waverley
time passes (listen)
Bridge of Allan
‘A Lecropt Girl’
‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
105 Henderson Street
Ashintrool
Borrowmeadow Farm
Bridge of Allan Highland Games
Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s
Chemists and Apothecaries
Charles Neil Rutherfoord
Gilbert Farie
Oswald Robertson
Craig Mair
Drumdruills
Rab Scott
Fernfield
Finn Russell
Glimpses of Local History
Hercules
Jerah
Jerah
Keir Estate, Stirling
Keirfield
David Rutherfoord
Landmarks of Bridge of Allan
Lecropt and Larger Scotland
Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
Millad
Miss Jessie lennox
Museum Hall
Old Village Worthies
Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
Our first village shop
Our village in old photographs and writings
Pictures of Bridge of Allan
Rev Charles Rogers
Rev Charles Rogers
Robert Louis Stevenson
St Ann’s
Stevenson’s cave
The Cleopatra needle
The Fountain of Nineveh
The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
The Rutherfoord family: Ten summers fade
The Rutherford letters
The Wharrie Glen
The Wrights of Loss
Village doctors
Dr A. S. Biggart
Dr Alexander Paterson
Dr Balbirnie
Dr Eric Dow
Dr John Hossack Fraser
Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord
Dr Mary Baird Hannah
Dr William Haldane
Dr William Halliday Welsh
Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
Folk worth talking about
“Dr Frederick Adair”
Albert Bayne, DCM
Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA
Andy Murray
Angus John Campbell
Annie Graham Baird
Arthur
C. P. Snow
Captain Alexander Morrison
Charles Rogers
Clive Wright
David Bowie
David Harrowes
Davina Gordon
Dr Pat Beausang
Dr Quackleben
Elijah Wood
Ella Rae
Felix Feneon
Finn Russell
Fittie’s Tragic Harbourmaster
Geoffrey Jellicoe
Scratches
Gregory’s girl
Ian Collins
J. J. R. Macleod
James Woodburn Dunlop
Janet B Wood
John Glen Parker
John Marshall Scott
Johnston Shearer
Lord Esher
My Great Uncle Peter
Nancy Prentice
Neil Findlay
Oswald Bates
Patrick Geddes
Peter Pan
Rashiebog
Rev Charles Rogers
Rev. I. M. Jolly
Robert Hutchison
Sian
Tam Dalyell
The Lighthouse Georgesons
The Odd Dr Todd
The Owl Man
The Wizard of the North
Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
Gilbert Farie
Ruins
Almond or Haining castle
Amisfield, Haddington
Argaty House
Arnhall castle
Arnmore House
Auchengray House
Auchtavan
Avondale House
Bandeath armaments depot
Bannockburn House
Bishopsfauld
Bridgealehouse
Brucklay castle
Caldwell House
Cammo House and Estate
Carnock House
Carstairs Mausoleum
Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay
Castle Newe
Castlehill Colliery
Cherryton Brick Works
Clinterty
Club’s Tomb
Crawford Priory
Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie
Dunalastair
Duncrub house
Dunmore House
Duntarvie castle
Dupplin West Lodge
Edmonstone house and park
Evelick castle
Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium
Falcon Hall
Feddal castle
Fishtown of Usan
Gesto House, Skye
Glendevon castle
Hartshaw Tower
Hatton estate
Hundy Mundy
Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’
Kennetpans
Kilmadock old churchyard
Kilmaron castle
Kingsborough, Skye
Kingseat Hospital
Kipps
Knowegreens Inn
Knowsie House
Lanrick castle (demolished)
Largo House
Lathallan House
Lathallan House
Lynedoch
Maison Dieu, Brechin
Meigle steading
Millearne
Newton of Condie
Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
Pitmiddle village
Polmaise castle
Roseberry steading
Royal Cornhill Hospital
St Peter’s Seminary
Straid
The Esher-Stank mausoleum
The lost garden of Penicuik
The Macrae Monument
The Mavisbank Trust
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
The Temple of Decision
Waterloo Tower
The Ageing Stone
The Antiquary
The Great Tapestry of Scotland
The Wilkie’s of Errol
There was an insistent present tenseness
Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
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