Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience of self-isolating with her children in Southsea. It’s Day 3, and Maddie and the children are feeling the strain of being [… read more ]
By Richard Salsbury As I strode past the orchard on Cornwallis Crescent I realised that the tingling in my hands and feet wasn’t going to disappear after a bit of exercise. I was on my [… read more ]
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience of self-isolating with her children in Southsea. It’s Day 2, and Maddie is reminded of Lord of the Flies…Read the first [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, with so many things changing, a budget that barely anyone can remember, their guest pulling out, and with the country [… read more ]
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, shares her experience of self-isolation in Southsea, after her son develops a dry cough. ‘Mum, I have a cough.’ There I was, enjoying a lazy Sunday morning in [… read more ]
Inspired by the many fabulous environmental initiatives taking place in Portsmouth, Pens of the Earth was set up to encourage writers to celebrate existing projects, and to imagine what might be. This week Helen Salsbury digs [… read more ]
By Wendy Metcalfe This morning will be my last meeting with Arthur. Arthur isn’t a man. I’ve had enough of them to last me a lifetime. Arthur is a tree. He’s a young, slender oak, [… read more ]
By Philip Wilson Insecurity Maturity Are one and the same They play the same game Insecurity gives you the belief everyone is against you True But also weirdly the strength to find an answer To [… read more ]
By Bruce Parry Wind and rain push the branches of horse-chestnut to scatter childhood across the land, green shells break open to reveal the promising brown shine, tiny wellingtons jump and squash them apart for [… read more ]
Writer and blogger Nigel Horatio Norbit-Nelson claims to be ‘Portsmouth’s only true citizen’ for the sole reason that he was born here in the mid-80s and has never left Portsea Island since. As part of [… read more ]
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