Alexa, what time is it?

It's 6.27 p.m.

And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

Blue and yellow till we die. I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Well, here we are.

Let's hope that there's less swearing in this episode.

Yes, there were challenges last week.

Challenges, I think we like to call them.

Opportunities to grow.

We learned a lot about life and love.

Yes, and frantically trying to deal with whatever update it was that had caused communication problems between my computer and the mixing desk and whatever, quote-unquote, progress in improvements that Facebook have decided to deliver to their page that makes it impossible to actually broadcast.

But there we go. We're here. So how's your week been, Ian?

A bit of a lame one this week, to be honest, Simon. I kind of knew it was coming, but a bit of a restructure at work, so at risk of redundancy, which is always a troubling time. But there are some new roles that have

been created and I'm in a pool. So it's one of those, I've been through them before. It's the

uncomfortable game of musical chairs where, you know, there are five of you and they take two of

the chairs away and see see who ends up so yeah not panicking yet but

obviously uncomfortable time not just for myself but for all my colleagues so um yeah not been the

not been the best week but we've powered through it well how about yourself um well the the applications for grown-up work continue basically so um like me and the other half

the country i guess um but you just got to keep battling on um had a um was nearly successful so on um

one application this week which i won't remember where but Sorry, won't mention where. I do remember.

But yeah, it's that old thing of you just got to keep going at it, really.

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