Local resident and founder of Stripy Lightbulb CIC, Sally Callow, shares her experience of ‘long Covid’ as someone living with M.E and explains growing concerns that for many, Covid-19 may trigger M.E. As a M.E [… read more ]
Ian Morris returns with his weekly column after a brief hiatus for his birthday last week, which didn’t go at all to plan, as lockdown restrictions continue to impact on the Blind Cricket Season. There [… read more ]
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, closes her daily diary as she reflects on her own experience of lockdown with her children in Southsea, including illness, home-schooling, and thinking critically about the government’s response to [… read more ]
Ian Morris continues his new weekly column, and after reading Ian Fleming’s Bond novel Moonraker, considers the changing nature of language over time. Does erasing evidence of past prejudice run the risk we forget it ever [… read more ]
Writer and music blogger Doug Hamilton was born and raised in America, moved to Canada in the early 2000s, and recently relocated again with his British-born spouse to Portsmouth. In the latest part of his new [… read more ]
Christine Lawrence describes finishing her novel, which had not been touched for a year, while in lockdown, and how she managed to write over 87,000 words during the pandemic. I sit and stare into the [… read more ]
COVID-19’s arrival in Portsmouth feels like a long time ago. University of Portsmouth creative writing student, Morgan Turner, recounts that unnerving time – and how he dealt with the challenges that followed. With a Co-op [… read more ]
In the first of his new weekly series continuing on from 89 Not Out, Ian Morris asks whether local shops can compete with Amazon, and whether Pompey High Streets can survive the pandemic. It’s day [… read more ]
Gosport-based writer, adventurer and planetary modeller, David Angus, has found some therapeutic benefits to writing about the current crisis and imagining it as a letter to his late parents. Dear Mum and Dad, Well, things [… read more ]
S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s finally here, Day 89 and Ian reflects on his experience as a daily writer for [… read more ]
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