Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of Shooting From the Lip

with me John Gongs.

We're traveling around the world again.

I thought it was time to get back to Sri Lanka

and not just because I love the good carbon hospital which is filmed

there but I wanted to find out what was happening to a guy we spoke to a few weeks ago, you might remember Mark Robinson, who had decided that

he thought he was relatively more safe in Sri Lanka and he was going to continue to surf rather than coming back to the UK.

Let's find out what is like now.

Let's find out what the lockdown is like over there and I'm sure we're going to discuss

what is happening here in Blighty too.

Good afternoon Mark.

Good afternoon, John.

So I understand there's been a fundamental change in your thoughts.

Last time we spoke, you were not going to leave Sri Lanka what's changed

Yeah, it was only it was I mean I was going to leave at some stage and now sort of become a good time for me. I've I'm an asthmatic and I've run out of my inhalers. I've got one that

one of the local ones but I can't get a hold of one of the others and the heat over here at the moment, it's change of seasons.

So they're going from a very dry, you know, dry, no rain to the rain and the humidity here is like 96% at 28 degrees 30 degrees at night so I'm just really struggling with my breath at the moment.

So yeah it's time to get back. I'm getting emails from my people at home. I'm saying, no, you need to renew this, renew that, you know, your bill, got the bill I'm thinking of phone companies and Wi-Fi people and all that so I'm getting all that sort of stuff and I need to be

at home to do that I've tried contacting them from over here and nobody's talking to anybody just

getting put through to answer phone messages and go onto the website and

things like that. Okay so how long has you been out there longer than you expected?

It's an extra five weeks.

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