It’s been a while, for which I apologise. I got hit with the cold from … hrm.. what’s a good BattleTech metaphor? The jungles of Old Kentucky? Either way, I picked up a cold from the trip down to one of my contracts’ Christmas bash just before Christmas, which settled in with a vengeance till late January. I managed to record a podcast between Christmas and the New Year, in a brief lull between sneezing my head off and keeping myself awake all night coughing up my lungs.

Not a fun start to the year, and, being a contractor, I don’t get paid for being sick, so the time since has been spent catching up on paid work so I can afford the Corporation Tax bill 😀

Still – I’m back. The podcast is still in the editing stage, but I’m actually about caught up with the stuff that pays the bills, so expect that this week. As a warmup for that, I’ve just updated the events calendar. If there’s any entries for that or the directory that I’ve missed, please let me know and I’ll make sure it’s up and you get a mention in the upcoming episode.

Happy New Year, belatedly!

Mike

P.S. expect dates for Periphery Assault 2026 and another tournament from Tales from the Periphery real soon now!

You can find us here (Hall 4, ZZ).

Just done some tidying up – you should now find that the podcast now displays links to Amazon and Spotify as well as Apple Podcasts if you prefer those means of absorbing your audio entertainment.

It’s also up on Pocket Casts and Pandora (US only), but the WP theme won’t show those on each episode.

I have added the UK/Irish dates for this to the Events calendar. Sadly we don’t have exact times for some of the events yet, but you can probably safely assume they are evening events. If your club or store is involved with any of these events, please drop me a line at info@talesfromtheperiphery.org.uk if you have any more details.

Thanks to the excellent folks at the Valhalla Club, we now have a “booth” in their podcast area: it’s https://discord.gg/thevalhallaclub.

Welcome to Tales From The Periphery, an audio podcast, news blog, events diary and resource covering the UK BattleTech scene.

Here you will be able to find a list of places where you can play both Classic BattleTech and Alpha Strike, as well as links to events, the BattleTech UK discord etc.

As we’re still in the startup process, there are a couple of issues I still need to resolve, so please mind your heads on the scaffolding in the meantime.

The site is managed by Mike Whitaker (FleetfootMike on the discord).