The View From The Crow's Nest | EP72

Welcome to Episode 72, my podcast The view from the crow's nest, and the view from my nest today was very much of a family day view, which meant I didn't think about work. Pretty much all day like I actually don't think I thought about work today or at least for very fleeting periods, and I certainly didn't do anything I didn't check an email had messages I didn't check those. So I literally didn't do anything on work today, which was really nice. This morning I did speak to my mom for a couple hours which was wonderful. And I did mention about were there because she asked me, but that was about, that was about it. And then in the afternoon, sort of for lunchtime. We went out to kind of like a forest but it's like on an adventure playground type thing there and it's got one of those, you know organised kind of tree walk things, you know, and it was really cool. I mean, The kids have been there. Pretty much all week with him and have been many times A man has done the, the children's course like a lot of times, and it's a really, it's a really cool playground a really cool area. And the kids really enjoyed it I was playing guitar for the first time in a long time. Just noodling about and actually had a crowd at one point which is really cool i like few people who you know were standing around and then commented me and complimented me on my plane which is really sweet of them. So that was very nice little boost. And then I was playing with the kids on the equipment, and also playing with myself playing myself on the equipment, because you know big kid and Simona noted that my strength has clearly improved from doing you know like I know, kind of tricep Dippy type things with the legs out in front of you or whatever, you know, just like hanging, or whatever. And so that was very positive that means the personal training is working. And I'm getting, I felt stronger so that was cool. And then we went for then and then I got hailed by a guy in English, who looked Italian his name was Carlo. So, Italian name. Turns out he was born in Essex, to an Italian father English mother and I was raised in Essex basically. And he was really nice guy so we started chatting and these are let's have a beer let's have a beer very English. He's been here for 20 years he was born there lived there for 20 years and moved to Naples for 20 years. It was really nice because that was really nice to hear a an English accent be even more close to home in Essex accent. And, see, have somebody to have a beer with his last lbs. Okay, cool. So, really nice ice cold draft beer was very nice actually. And it's great that there's a cafe there that sells draft beer in the kids playground. I mean, brilliant. And it was really pleasant I had a good chat with a guy. And we'll probably all meet up and sim chatted with the wife who's from Naples and they go on and as it transpires Amina already admitted their daughter at the playground over the week and they've been playing with their anyway so connections around. So that was really good. See what happens when you actually leave the house, then it transpires that guy's brother is a blues musician pretty much professional blues musician, and he also organises. The Campania Blues Festival which is a Blues Festival for the entire region. And basically, totally connected to the live music scene so it's like you got to hook up with my brother. Wow, what a contact. So that was really really cool. And then we went walking in the actual kind of forest. Then I was really tired when we started and it was still very tired but he's such a trooper he just went through it and he really enjoyed it. We really enjoyed it. And I had another little, you know, kind of personal victory, because I was in basically trainers and very short, you know, just shorts and a lot of the paths were overgrown we're actually going to find a part of the forest where there was kind of volcanic. We didn't know exactly what but some volcanic activity is stil