Welcome to Episode 126 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest, and it is Friday the ninth of October, 2020. Today has been a productive day depending on which way you look at it on the manual labour side, simola has tied it and cleaned our balcony. Now that won't mean anything to you, but if you'd seen the state of it. Then you'd be most impressed. So the apartment that we're staying in at the moment is was my wife's aunt's place, who died a couple of years ago and she had an incredible amount of pot plants on her balcony. And so we've just come down to Calabria, and we've taken this apartment, and the plants don't really seem like they'd ever really been cared for in the last couple of years. So it's just like, just dust and crap, up and down, they're just all up and down the balcony. And now we've got this lovely clean, clear balcony I can't tell you how impressed I am so that's really cool because now we're gonna be able to put a table and chairs out there, it's, it's not massive but it's big enough for a table and a couple of chairs and so pretty nice. That's very cool. And on a personal level, I started restarted I should say with my Italian studies gently this morning because I'm aware that I need to pick that back up. And so that's another thing and then I then I kind of spent the morning. Doing vocal practice and guitar practice, two things haven't done it a long time, or quite a while, and then that led on to. I just couldn't get my head into I can be motivated to go into kind of normal work fire on the computer and go emails and start the business business. I was in a musical mode. And so I thought, actually, one thing I do need to do is the last two weeks of lab posts so the lab is a private member's club and every week I do, I share some music in there, some exclusive music, and I hadn't done last week's we're moving and I hadn't done yesterday because just haven't got around to it yet. So I was okay right go through some songs some old songs which is what I do. And, you know, see which one's gonna fit. And then I do a video for each one has a story behind the song and given a bit of context and whatnot. And I found and remember this song of mine called tried to hide, which I wrote in 2013, and I wrote the music and I had the lyrics and the melody at the melody, and I had the lyrics. The opening two lines of the chorus that was basically it. But it's one of my, what I call my bond songs, so I've written, try to write a few songs blatantly trying to write like a bond so because I love bond music consistently brilliant. And so yeah so I was trying to do that. And then I did something which I haven't done in over two years I think which is write lyrics, or certainly over a year. I actually wrote the Full lyrics to this song tried to hide. And then, unashamedly turn it into no time to die. Because, still some of that traffic. But no, it's my bond song and actually suited really well the vibe, and then I realised actually I was, you know, might as well change the lyric and and get it really kind of tied in to that feeling that I think the new Bond film will have could be wrong, but so I look to the trailer of it and I was like yeah this really kind of fits blah blah blah. So I was really chuffed to be that and I thought let me just record a video of it. Just so I've got a copy of me playing it so that I can, you know, see how it sounds and whatnot. And then later I'll have to record versions on the computer and all of that and blah blah. And I recorded a literally one video one take. While I was reading the lyrics off the off the computer, and it came out all right and I thought you know, boom, that's what I'm gonna use for the lab and hopefully that's acceptable to people but I think it's a really nice soul, so I'm really chuffed with myself because it's it sounds good. I sound good. Despite being kind of out of playing for a while. And so I was really chuffed, but then the next thing and this I wasn't expecting.
