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Lou O'Brien
338 posts
Aspex Gallery 40 Years
It’s hard to believe that Portsmouth’s contemporary art gallery Aspex is 40 years old! Starting life on Brougham Road, Somerstown, in a building that needed so much repair by a…
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PodCulture Vultures
PodCulture Vultures is a new podcast where two mates (Kev and Dean) have known each other all of their adult life and manage to pull off this double act like two greats…
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Pandemic Pink
Billie Rae is a pink-haired, picture-taking photographic technician at the University of Portsmouth. Her style and focus led me to work with her on issue 10 of Southsea Folk. Like…
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5 Warming Drink Recipes To Help You Survive The Weather
Over the last 2 weeks, we have experienced some seriously freezing weather! One day I was out getting my once a day exercise and it actually felt painful to be…
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Portsmouth Mystery Adventure
Popping down to the Hotwalls Christmas market I fell across the Portsmouth Mystery Adventure Books by Mystery Guides. The fact that Portsmouth has some wonderful historic streets and landmarks I…
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Surviving January Again
As I was looking at old posts on the site I realised that I had written a post 3 years ago and one of the very first articles I wrote was all about surviving January! It had comments in there about how research over 8 years had been done and proven that having a flu jab and having a connection with people in your life from talking to the postman to chatting with your friends and family helps you to live longer!
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Unmade Radio Launch
A while ago I let Unmade Radio take over my Instagram for a day to highlight their vision and future of music in Portsmouth. This week has seen the launch of the radio station which is on their website not via your usual DAB radio but via the internet offering a voice for DJ's not presently promoted in a traditional way in the city.
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The Crappy Bits Of Pregnancy Book
Why would anyone want to write a book about the crappy bits of pregnancy? Well for a start if you have a good sense of humour you might want to…
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A Different Perspective Video
It has been a difficult couple of days but something in the back of our minds knew that it might be on the horizon, another full national lockdown. When you…
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