Alexa, what time is it?

It's 6.27 p.m.

And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandspring.

So, here we are Ian. Here we are, Ian, hopefully return to like normal service on a Sunday.

Yes, yeah, the old, was it?

We've had a couple of weeks off.

Time has flown by.

And, yes, yeah, we find ourselves.

And you just blanked out of your memory last week where we had to abandon the show

and redo it on wednesday oh god yes i forgot i have actually raised that that was painful the

sun last sunday never change platforms no you're right we haven't had a couple of weeks off in fact

we haven't even had half a week off no it, it's been a long and taxing weekend.

So if I am not quite at the top of my game today, then forgive me.

It was what we could describe as an eventful day yesterday.

There was cricket, there was beer, and then there was summons at half past two in the morning

to go and rescue my eldest son and his best mate, which we Julie did, but it has rather

taken its toll on my fortitude. But how is life with you, sir?

It's, well, it's not been too bad. I mean, to be honest, despite working there since the beginning of March, yeah,

beginning of March and supposedly being meant to have worked every weekend, every weekend every five weeks,

and this weekend has been the first weekend I've actually had to work with a combination of me moving teams or the schedule's changing or me being on holiday.

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