Local writer and planetary modeller David Angus takes us on an epic hike through the Dolomites. First of all why the title? Answer: I build planets and the odd moon; model ones that is. Once [… read more ]
Writer Anne Paton-Cragg has adopted Portsmouth as her home town but has also lived in Sheffield, London, Paris, Helsinki and Singapore. Here she relates an awkward yet humorous experience she had while visiting Monaco. ‘That’s [… read more ]
Travel writer and planetary modeller David Angus has just realised a lifelong dream: to fly a Spitfire. This is the story of that trip. It was a dual controlled Spitfire. The real pilot in the [… read more ]
On Father’s Day Sian Rees was thinking of her late dad Gareth and reflecting on her process of grief. I just read a piece of your writing. You were reflecting on home and what that [… read more ]
The Fifth Hants Volunteer Arms – or the Fifth Hants as it is frequently referred to – stands tall in the landscape, and whilst not dominating the street, it is surely synonymous with it. It [… read more ]
Writer and planetary modeller David Angus shares a feline story of deception and aggression. Spring had arrived and the warmth of late March brought the trees out in bloom, then cold winds in April inhibited [… read more ]
It’s Portsmouth Harbour, and veteran journalist Peter Gruner is about to climb aboard the 700 Stagecoach bus to the glorious South Downs and then to Chichester for a matinee of the musical Oliver! Here’s what [… read more ]
Local resident Rachel Claire Birchley gives a personal and passionate account of her experience of attending the Extinction Rebellion (XR) mass protest in London in April 2023, part of XR’s ‘Unite to Survive’ campaign, centring [… read more ]
Writer and S&C founding editor Tom Sykes and illustrator Louis Netter are publishing a book next March entitled Coast of Teeth, a travelogue of 21 English seaside towns in an age of anxiety and absurdity. [… read more ]
From 1974 to 1978, Gosport-based writer and planetary modeller David Angus lived in South Africa. Here he shares the letters he wrote to his mother relating his experiences of hard labour, riots and the appalling [… read more ]
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