Poetry
Lockdown
By Peter Ashdown-Knights Lockdown, was committed to quicker than I can get a sock down on my foot It was all a shock down in our systems We could barely take stock down of what happened [… read more ]
Wellbeing
Social Issues
Listening to the Wider Conversation on Mental Health
Carolyn Barber of Portsmouth’s Good Mental Health Cooperative, and local researcher and social entrepreneur, shares advice and resources on how to manage your mental health in lockdown. This week, Carolyn shares the thoughts of others [… read more ]
Memoir
89 Not Out: Day 84, Really? Twelve Weeks Already?
S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 84, and today marks twelve weeks since Ian – and many others deemed more [… read more ]
Social Issues
Your Mental Health and the Power of Pets
Sandy Walker writes for Portsmouth’s Good Mental Health Cooperative, about how our pets benefit our mental health, while Carolyn Barber provides an update on a new project the Coop will be starting, following funding from [… read more ]
Memoir
Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 74, When a Toddler Complains
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. We’re at Day 74, and A Maddie’s youngest has initiated a [… read more ]
Memoir
Being Kind to Yourself: Looking Back at Mental Health Awareness Week
Maria Ganderton writes for Portsmouth’s Good Mental Health Cooperative, about the importance of being kind to ourselves, building on the theme of last week’s Mental Health Awareness Week: kindness. For Mental Health Awareness week, I [… read more ]
Memoir
Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 73, What’s Non Violent Resistance?
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. We’re at Day 73, and Maddie goes back [… read more ]
Memoir
Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 72, The Age of Dissent
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. We’re at Day 72, and S has reached [… read more ]
News
Learning Disabilities, Shielding and Government Guidelines
Local resident and photographer John Callaway gives an insight into what the government’s ‘one size fits all’ COVID-19 guidance means for someone with a learning disability and physical health conditions, and how it can inadvertently set [… read more ]
Social Issues
Mental Health Awareness Week 2020: Kindness
Carolyn Barber of Portsmouth’s Good Mental Health Cooperative, and local researcher and social entrepreneur, shares advice and resources on how to manage your mental health in lockdown. This week, Carolyn explores the theme of this [… read more ]