Alexa, what time is it?

The time is 6.27 p.m.

And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

So here we are, Ian, back after, well, quite an extended summer break.

It's our autumn, winter season of 2021.

It is, and it kind of, is it me, or does it just feel like we blinked and summer was gone?

Kind of. I guess these things kind of slip into, you know, one lockdown. It feels like another

lockdown, doesn't it? But we haven't had any more just yet, thanks. No, and I think that's the,

I guess there's that sort of strange feeling about, you know,

kind of everyone was particularly looking forward to the summer and July that whatever it was,

unlocking day or Freedom Day or whatever you want to.

And so I kind of, you know, it has been slightly surreal being out and about.

I was back travelling for work and crossing London during rush hour

and there being nobody there.

It was very, very surreal.

So it has that sort of slightly odd feel about it.

But then all of a sudden it was September.

Yeah, it was indeed, and I'm not going to sing that it was the first of September.

I'll always remember.

Yeah, indeed.

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