Welcome to Episode 65 of my podcast. The view from the crow's nest. Today Sunday, Sunday yesterday. So, I couldn't really be bothered to do much. Oh man, I was, I was lacking in Drive and energy today, which is perfect time to have my personal training session this morning when I got up and it was leg day. Suffice it to say that my legs were dealt with. And afterwards I just had sit on the couch for a little bit, and my legs and then by the time I tried to get up, they seized up. So that was a great start to the day. But um, and then, yeah, I was just tired man devoid of energy and obviously I need rest yesterday in fact taking the day off yesterday I think because I relaxed. It actually made me more, you know, tired today and more drained today just because my body actually unwell. But nonetheless, after that played with the kids for most of the morning, and was talking to Mina. She was, you know, she's been disappointed about the fact that we're not doing the things that we were hoping to do as far as Travelling is concerned and doing other stuff and visiting stuff, because this whole coronavirus business. And so, we I said to her today you know let's do a little thing let's, let's, why don't you write down all the things that you want all the things, all the places you want to go, and all the things that you want to do, and then we'll see what we can do, and I think I didn't touch on this yesterday you know do what you can with what you have right now you know I'm trying to keep that in mind, one of my big catchphrases so to speak, and think about Okay cool. Well, we want to do. I want to do camping or something and Ischia. In August, September is not the best time for camping, not the best place for camping, but Amina really wants to go camping but it's like okay what you know what can we do. And so she was talking about sort of outdoor stuff it didn't help that I just started reading a book yesterday that was kind of 100 family adventures and and most of them outdoors and most of them are very English focused or British focused adventures. And, but nonetheless so she was, she made the list and this made a quite a bit happier to kind of start taking action. And actually this is something that Simona and I had discussed before, that we wanted all the family to be able to kind of write stuff down and then we plan our travels accordingly to what people want to do, and find places to do them. So, an extreme example and obviously be, you know, if you wanted to go skiing or snowboarding then Ischia isn't the right place and certainly during the summer isn't the right place. So, if you decide on the activity you want to do, then decide on the place that you need to go to in order to do it is kind of our plan. And one thing that I've been poor on as chastising myself for one thing I've been poor on is. I haven't really been very outdoorsy with the kids, you know, we were in, they grew up in Central Illinois I grew up, I mean a seven now seven and a half, but, you know, they were born in Chelsea in the central London our flat was in zone two or something. So we're right in the centre of London right by Thames. Thankfully we had the beautiful batsy part which I think is a nicest park in London, literally right next to us. So they spent a lot of time in the park which is great but it's a very manicured Park, you know, very not outdoorsy, and I'm a bit of a you know I like my comfort so I've had my luxuries, and I don't really like creepy crawlies and I don't like getting my hands dirty. And I was thinking I've thought this before but I was thinking also recently, having the day off yesterday you know helps to get a bit of like distance and thinking about stuff. And I was thinking you know I really don't want to be don't want to have the kids grow up, not suffering as far too strong a word but not having such access to the experiences and the enjoyment of the great outdoors, because we as parents haven't instilled that in them because
