Christine Lawrence had always believed belly dancing was solely for the titillation of men, originating in female slavery. So when she was invited to a taster session with the Awakened Belly Dance group, she tried [… read more ]
A paradise, a sanctuary to an amazing variety of fauna and flora found nowhere else in the world. It is blessed with awesome landscapes and its steeply sloped mountains are canopied by virgin forests. This [… read more ]
Portsmouth journalist and campaigner for justice for victims of vCJD (the human variant of ‘Mad Cows Disease’) Christine Lord recounts her experiences of losing a child and asks why society still struggles to acknowledge and [… read more ]
45 years ago, Christine Lawrence started her career as a psychiatric nurse at Knowle Hospital near Fareham. Later in life she would publish Caught in the Web, a fictionalisation of those early experiences. How did [… read more ]
University of Portsmouth student Phoebe Hedges finds a new mystery in a very familiar train journey. It was the end of my first year at university and I travelled home for the summer. Yet each [… read more ]
As a Portsmouth-based planetary modeller, David Angus hand-makes representations of the planets and their terrains. In 2001, a childhood dream came true: he was asked to work with the BBC on their Dinosaur Island show. Long ago [… read more ]
Last month, fantasy novelist Rick Haynes was sitting at his desk when he felt a slight twinge on the left side of his chest. Here’s what happened next. Thinking nothing of the mild pain, I [… read more ]
Since December 2017, Portsmouth author and S&C regular Gareth Rees has been battling serious illness and pondering some deep questions about his own existence. Here he recounts finding solace in Charles Dickens, chirpy NHS staff [… read more ]
S&C regular contributor and author of the memoir Read Rees, Gareth Rees, was fit and healthy all his life until just before last Christmas when he was admitted to Queen Alexandra Hospital with mysterious pains [… read more ]
S&C’s community reporter and reviewer, Emily Priest, returns from her recent break to give an unflinching and brave account of her own experiences and explain why we all need to start talking about mental health. [… read more ]
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