Southsea Greenhouse is a seafront florist and green-grocer co-op for local grown / recycled goods run by Sue Stokes. They have recently opened next to South Parade Pier and Strong Island wish them lots of success. You can also get local deliveries by bike or supervan.
Their website is http://www.southseagreenhouse.co.uk/
Below are some images taken over the weekend.
After a seven year absence Southsea is to see a return of the once annual carnival.
The carnival will take place from July 24 to 25 and will kick off with a huge parade, and about 20 colourful floats that will meet at the Royal Marines Museum and go along the seafront, finishing at Southsea common.
From 11am until 7pm on both days activities will be taking place on two stages run by Nick Courtney, as well as an arena and stalls on Southsea Common. The event is being run as a joint venture between Portsmouth Lions, Portsmouth’s Caribbean Association and Portsmouth City Council’s seafront management team.
To get involved call Mr Apps on (023) 9232 1847, or e-mail john.apps@ntlworld.com
Portsmouth City Council is looking to develop the seafront and is working in partnership with the University of Portsmouth. They would like to know ‘What’s your vision for Southsea’. There is a 3 day design workshop from 23-25th April at Southsea Castle. Times are now 1pm-7pm on 23 April, 10am-3pm on 24 April and 11am-3pm on 25 April. Councillor Mike Hancock will give a short presentation on the future of Shaping of Southsea and the regeneration of the City.
This is a really good opportunity to get involved and put forward any ideas for future developments of our beloved seafront. It would be great to see some proposals in the near future and if anyone has further information on any matters like this then we would love to know about them.
Portsmouth City Council’s Events Team are looking for local bands to play as part of this year’s Live at the Bandstand free outdoor music programme on Southsea Seafront.
For 2009 the Events Team want to broaden the opportunity for local bands to be part of the programme, and will be running open auditions, a bit like Battle of the Bands, to check out the local musical talent with the winners of each heat going through to the final where a panel of judges will select 4 bands for a showcase at the bandstand.
Sign up to the Bandstand Facebook Group for updates and further information on the selection criteria and how to sign up. Good luck.
Photo courtesy of local art aficionado My Dog Sighs
I went for bike ride today to take advantage of the nice, albeit cold, weather and take a few photos. Check them out over on my Flickr photostream.
Portsmouth Council is currently looking at ways to improve our cycle facilities and has provided the island with 4 options. You can either pick up a recent copy of Flagship or go straight to their online page and check the proposal options here
If you haven’t already you can then either send out the page to a freepost address or vote online here
We are also running a quick poll on the proposed options which is not in association with the council, but we could forward on:
Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.I couldn’t find a photo from riding on the seafront. At least not a decent one, so here’s a photo from the IOW with Rory from sfgfc
We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:
- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.
- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.
- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!
- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.
- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.
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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