Today saw some pretty horrific weather conditions locally. My bike ride to work was made rather interesting as I was blown 3 feet left and right. Claire Sambrook caught a photo of this poor persons misfortune. Hope everything was alright in the end. Does fully comp insurance cover force majeure?
If you have any stories or photos from todays weather experience then send them over to contact@strong-island.co.uk and we’ll pop them up.
After work on Saturday we dropped into The Phoenix pub for a shant and to visit the current guests inhabiting the pool room.
The two adorable white ponies are starring in Cinderella at The Kings Theatre just round the corner. They looked picture perfect and made me a very happy girl. Hooray for ponies!
A few weeks ago we launched a competition along with Anglepoise for Strong Islanders to send in images of their Anglepoise lamps to win a copy of the Kenneth Grange book ‘Making Britain Modern’.
The winner chosen by Simon Terry who is head of innovation and development at Anglepoise Ltd is Jett Abrook from Southsea. Jett used his Anglepoise to light his collection of cars.
We also had some amazing entries from Paul Thurlow and Philip Bennett.
All photographs are submitted below. In order – The winner Jett Abrook, Paul Thurlow and Philip Bennett.
Jett Abrook with his copy of the book.
Below Paul Thurlow and Philip Bennett.
Sam Gearing got in touch to say that their cat Ruby is missing and hoping all Strong Islanders could keep an eye out in their gardens and streets for her. Ruby was last seen in the Fratton area and is missed incredibly and they are hoping for her safe return or any information that can give them some answers as to what may have happened to her. Please get in touch if you spot Ruby.
Lucy got in contact via Twitter (@StrongIslandUK) with information of a bike theft that happened recently. Two bikes were stolen: a green Pashley princess and a silver man’s mountain bike. Both mint condition along with a cricket bag and contents. The theft happened in the Marmion Road/Victoria Road south area. The theft happened from a metal shed with a secure lock and the Police have been informed. Keep your eyes peeled for the bikes and get in contact with Hampshire Police or Crimestoppers if you see or know anything.
Little heads up from a friend of a friend. Always be a safe as you can, keep your eyes peeled and lock stuff securely.
“Mate of mine had his garage done today. Bold as brass daylight job. Well planned – had been watching their routine and did it over on the first day back at school, took all the adult bikes and power tools and drill bits but oddly left the kids’ Islabikes. It was a well-secured garage, would have taken a big bolt-cutter to snip the lock.
Apparently there’s been a spate of similar jobs in the area so if you know anyone in Portsmouth tip them off.”
OG Southsea artist, screenprint virtuoso and friend to many Spencer Hunt was very seriously hurt in Brighton on Friday night/Saturday morning (15th/16th) and Spencer’s family and Sussex Police are desperately trying to find out what happened. If you know Spencer or anyone in Brighton who may be able to help please spread the word with the following link via Facebook, Twitter, etc, etc.
Spencer is in intensive care but is on the mend, get well soon and all the best.
Spurred on by the devastation of losing loved ones to dementia, three girls will be cycling across America to raise money and awareness of the condition. Kirsty Loveridge, 21, from St David’s Road, Southsea, Katie Stephenson, 24, of Cleveland Road, Southsea, and Amy Hawkins, 25, of Trevor Road, Southsea, will be raising money for the Alzheimer’s Society.
‘It is a cause very close to our hearts. My grandad is 74 and I’ve seen first-hand how dementia has affected him. He’s at the stage where he knows he is forgetting things, but can’t help it. He used to be able to drive and was quite independent, but he can’t be like that any more. My other friends have also been affected by family members suffering from dementia.’
In July the trio will be cycling 3,000 miles and have called the journey ‘miles for memories.’ Their adventure will see them cycle through 15 states finishing in California towards the end of September. The idea came from Katie and Amy, who have both graduated from Portsmouth University, where all three girls met.
You can keep uo to date with the girls progress over at their blog milesformemories.wordpress.com. All the best and good luck.
Article Via: www.portsmouth.co.uk
The following is a message from Edouard Carr. Please read, follow the web links and take in to consideration. “I was talking with my sister in-law and she mentioned that should I ever decide to cut my hair, I should look into donating it to a charity, as there were Cancer charities out there that wanted hair. Now the time has come for me to cut my hair and in doing some research on the Net I found my chosen charity (www.littleprincesses.org.uk). It is a charity which makes real hair wigs to children suffering hair loss due to cancer treatment. After watching their videos and seeing the good work that they do for the children, I knew they were the right choice for me.
Being a father of a little princess myself, I could not bear to imagine how families out there feel when discovering a child has Cancer and to know tht my locks could go to helping a child and their family, brings a smile to my face. I am aiming to raise £250 as after talking to a spokeswoman from the charity, I was told this is the minimum a real hair wig can cost (I hasten to add the wigs are given free to the children). So If I can break this target it would be great.
So there it is, the long hair needs to go but this time not in the bin! Please visit their site and find out how your money and my hair would go to benefit Cancer victims and if you ever feel the urge to cut your hair, please don’t forget this charity. You can donate at www.justgiving.com/Edouard-Carr
Edouard”
Strange how you end up researching something and end up going off down a random tangent, which is how I first started looking in to UFO sightings over Portsmouth in recent years. There was a high profile fake (according to popular opinion, of course) that made it in to the national press in 2008 and this image ended up linking through to photos, reports and even videos of strange objects spotted over our city, opening up a subject that is both fascinating and peculiar.
Portsdown Hill has been identified as a hot spot when it comes to sightings and does host sky watching evenings with people vigilantly observing the skies, hoping to view, film and photograph something out of the ordinary. Now obviously, living in an area with major military activity, the logical first thought is that all sightings will probably be something like a Chinook helicopter or oven something more ordinary like a light aircraft or Chinese lanterns caught in high breeze but not all the eyewitness accounts and even videos match those simple answers…resulting in literal unidentified, flying objects. The truth is out there, or something.
You can read many sightings over Portsmouth here and If you have any stories of your own we would love to hear them! Don’t be shy, please add them as a comment.
“I filmed these two strange metallic spheres floating in the sky late this afternoon (28th Feb 2011). Completely silent, no smoke contrail and the spheres where really shiny metallic and very reflective. Very bizarre!!”
“This astonishing, (and what we believe to be structured), object was filmed by a witness who was out trying his brand new, Sony HD handycam for the first time on a Skywatch. He initially saw this ufo as a red orb rising up from an area which is Farlington Marshes, Langstone Harbour, looking towards Hayling Island, Hants, UK.”
Photo by Hab Rahman
This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.
The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.
We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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