I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear, that Sidepodcast has returned safely from a weekend in Birmingham. We're in the midst of processing all of the pictures we've taken, while picking our way through the free tat merchandise that we've collected.

All of this means that today's podcast will be slightly delayed, while we recover from the exercise we had to endure on Saturday and then repeated today.

Normal service will resume once we've manage to trawl our way through all of this lot:

That's just the start of course, there's even more still awaiting unpacking.