Last week, Hello and welcome to Episode 96 of my podcast view from the crow's nest. Today is Wednesday the 10th of September. No, the ninth of September, depends who you speak to because it's 20 to one in the morning so is it the 10th is in the ninth. I'm still going with the night for the reason it's one in the morning is because Simona and I actually had dare I say, a bit of a night out. Yay, we, we went, put the kids well we we put the NRA to bed and then we put Mina to the couch to watch TV, for an hour and a documentary, and that was about nine o'clock and we came in at midnight and she was still on the couch, not watching a documentary. Clearly having just watched cartoons and whatever for the last three hours, but what it did mean is that we went out we had a lovely walk. And we got some street food, which was not in our diet, and then we sat in a really beautiful spot outside to have a drink and some more food, overlooking the sea in the car so it was beautiful and then we walked on got an ice cream none of this was in the diet. And then we returned home. And now we will be strict about the diet for about 10 days. I think nothing this weekend, but it was. It was lovely really needed both of us really needed to get out and, particularly, it was a really intense day today. Because, as you may know, in the last few days I've been on a mad quest to expand the team team team team team team. So I've just been basically I've just been doing full time ad for writing recruitment exactly full time recruitment writing adverts responding to people setting test tasks for people, etc. And then today though some of those are coming back but to add to my. Add to all of this. I had this, this, we had this kind of panic a couple of days ago on residency and status after Brexit and homeschooling the legalities of doing it. Now if we're Italian residents and blardy blar and all of this stuff so just to add to the chillaxing that we've been doing. I decided that next week is the opportunity to take an Italian oral exam, which I need in order to qualify for Italian citizenship. And if I don't do it next week in Naples and it will be next one is November, I think. And so, yeah. And so I thought, yeah, okay. But to do that, but the net result is I'm entirely unprepared so I put an ad out for a bunch of Italian teachers and today I did three or four sessions with different tutors. And it's the most Italian I've spoken I think in my life in one day. And tomorrow. I think I'll do one or two more sessions and then choose one of the tutors and do one or two hours with that tutor, a day for the next week. So it's going to be a very intensive week, but already I feel a bit better about the exam because at least, I kind of know what it might be. And, you know, my Italian my vocab is not too bad but my grandma, my tense is pretty poor. And my understanding of people is pretty poor, but it's getting better and by next week you'll be a lot better here's the plan. So yeah, very intense. They have this plus one of the clients, who's about three days ago they were considering throwing in the towel. We had a chat suggested a few things did a few things. And now their fortunes may well have been reversed. So, they're looking a bit happier about things and you know if it all comes off that'd be good because it also reflects well on the advice and the work that we've done for them in sort of changing their direction so potentially that's really good. And, yeah, I mean so so much happening so much happening, but now it's late and frankly I'm not gonna go into all now but suffice it to say, by the end of this week I think the audience ninja team will have gone up by three, four, maybe even five people. And, you know, we'll be in a position to really motor for more clients. Clients we've got seem to be very happy with our services which is brilliant. And I might have Italian oral language qualification. So it's all going in the right direction and crucially what
