Welcome to Episode 110 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest It is Wednesday the 23rd of September 2020. And after the last couple of days podcast if you listen to them or who is very low, ironically, given that it was my birthday, but I, on my birthday, I was very low. And then I hit an even love point, the next day yesterday, when I took my Italian test if that leading to my Italian test, I was very low. And then I took my test and I felt that I screwed it up. I might be right, I might be wrong. But apparently I need to wait sort of up to 60 days to get the result which is you know, classic Italian speed. And also totally useless if it does take 60 days because the next available time to take the test will be November. And I may not get my results by the time I have to take the test again, if I want to take the test again this year, and put in my application for citizenship before Brexit happens at the end of this year. And yada yada it's a bit of a pain. But we shall see, we shall see. Maybe I was doing myself a disservice. But nonetheless, I felt exceptionally low. After that I really did. And sensibly, we left the kids at home, Simone had come with me to Naples yesterday to do this, and we've had this plan that I have my birthday. And then the next two days, we'd go to Naples with the kids with Stan Naples overnight, I'd get an exam out of the way and we do these fun things. And, and because of the way I was feeling on my birthday, and it was just we cancelled or fun. And yeah, and so we went to Naples and and I was feeling terrible. And I was monosyllabic at best. And then we just came straight back home again, it costs us like that I like 50 quid to get the boat there and back on top of the cost. And then we got on the boat, and I couldn't even speak my mom could do one speech, my mom really feeling feeling low. And then nothing sumana said would help. And so we were just caught in silence and it was very sullen. And then I put my head on her lap, and she started massaging my head. And it was like, like, night and day. You know, for days I've been in this bad grumpy mood. And, you know, started giving me a head massage. The sun was on our faces on the boat crossing it was the slow boat, which took up to nearly two hours. And normally that would be too long, long hours. But instead it was kind of like silence because the kids weren't jumping all over us. I was getting this massage Simona wasn't getting asked 1000 questions by the kids and having to entertain them. And let's say someone's on our faces. And I actually fell asleep while she was massaging my head which I never fall asleep during the day. And that's when I woke up I was like a different person. Already know what the moral of the story is, other than you know, sometimes you just need to hit his knee touch. In other words, don't do it. And it completely changed my mood. And then we got to the port, we've got a skier and we could have gone home we're like screw this mess Ganga and appetitive which in Italy means you buy one alcoholic drink and it comes hopefully with a whole bunch of different bill plates of food basically, this bar though, or this restaurant, and we've seen before the platform right on the beach, it was really quiet because it was the end of the day, the tour season's over, had a couple of for me a couple of glasses of Prosecco and the woman really outdid herself to bring us all these various different plates of you know, this that and the other really tasty very bad against the diet but really tasty. And so then we came home and we're in a far far better mood and then go home last night and then we put the kids to bed I fell asleep by eight o'clock while putting them to bed sim said you know Go in, go go straight to bed, you know, our buttons bed, so so as not to not do my podcast. If you listen to yesterday's one, I did it in that moment that I'd woken up come in the bedroom was getting back into bed. So it's very short and very tired
