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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jonesy and Amanda you.

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Speaker 2: Know our next guest for her ferocious wit, her playfulness,

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Speaker 2: her irreverence. It's made of one of Australia's most loved entertainers.

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Speaker 2: She's a great mate of ours. She's written the book

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Speaker 2: about packing up her family and moving to Italy. It

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Speaker 2: sounds like a movie plot, but this was real life

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Speaker 2: for Kate Lanbrook and she joins us. Now, Kate, Hello,

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Speaker 2: oh ChIL Bella, which is the name of the book.

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Speaker 2: And such bravery from you. No one in your family

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Speaker 2: spoke Italian and the kids out of school. You chose

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Speaker 2: to belong you because it looked attractive and off you went.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean that does make it a little simpler.

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Speaker 1: That would have been like a three page pans more

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Speaker 1: than a three hundred page book. It was a little

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Speaker 1: more complicated than that. But essentially, Amanda, that was eat.

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Speaker 1: We didn't really even when people would say why, we

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Speaker 1: didn't even have a reason for why. We just kind

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Speaker 1: of knew that we wanted to reset on our lives,

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Speaker 1: and we wanted an adventure, and we wanted to spend

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Speaker 1: some time with our growing four children. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is pre covid by the way when we can't think

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Speaker 1: of anything worse.

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Speaker 2: But still, But your son, Lewis, your eldest son, had

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Speaker 2: leukimia when he was younger. Did that play a role

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Speaker 2: in how you wanted to spend time with your children?

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Speaker 1: Well, for me, it definitely did, and not in an

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Speaker 1: overt kind of through line way, but just in the

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Speaker 1: way that when you've emerged from a nearly losing someone

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Speaker 1: that you love, and people who listening to your show

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Speaker 1: would have lost people they love as well. I mean

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Speaker 1: we had a lucky outcome. It makes you rethink life.

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Speaker 1: I mean it made me rethink it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And Lewis, your son, he was an overly enamored with

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Speaker 3: the idea of you going to Italy?

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Speaker 1: Was he?

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Speaker 3: Ah?

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Speaker 1: Now? And that Jonesy is the very definition of I

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Speaker 1: isn't it. We wanted to go to Italy to celebrate

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Speaker 1: his life, and he didn't want to go through to

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Speaker 1: celebrate his life.

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Speaker 2: Many of us were jealous, Your friends were jealous when

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Speaker 2: you took off and the pictures of Bologna and the

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Speaker 2: beautiful restaurants and the gorgeous scenery and the history of

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Speaker 2: it all, but you went into lockdown and you hit

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Speaker 2: COVID before it came here. You did the hard yards

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Speaker 2: early on.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And in fact it was interesting because because we'd

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Speaker 1: gone in twenty nineteen ostensibly for one year, and we

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Speaker 1: thought that was the difficult year, because that was the

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Speaker 1: year we were trying to find somebody to live and

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Speaker 1: school for the kids and even learn, you know, how

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Speaker 1: to walk home without getting lost or all of that,

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Speaker 1: and not a word of language. We thought that was

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Speaker 1: the tricky year. And then of course twenty twenty went

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Speaker 1: I've got a little surprise for the new world, and

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Speaker 1: we realized that what we thought was the tricky year

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Speaker 1: was in fact the easy year, and we didn't get

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Speaker 1: the warning about like it went wu Han Northern Italy.

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Speaker 1: That's how that's how the lockdown happened for us. And

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Speaker 1: we were in Venice at the time, me and my

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Speaker 1: husband's at Carnival Ball, which was just the most incredible thing,

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Speaker 1: just celebrating the start of our twenty twenty that was

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Speaker 1: going to be a year of travel rightof and then

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Speaker 1: they shut down Venice, literally they shut it down. While

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Speaker 1: we were there. My husband woke up with a terrible,

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Speaker 1: well deserved hangover and told me he looked at his

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Speaker 1: phone and went f and how I'm like what, He goes,

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Speaker 1: they're shutting down Venice. I said, what what? We're in

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Speaker 1: Venice and our children are back in Bologna, me and

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Speaker 1: me shutting it down. And that was the start of

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Speaker 1: our lockdown. And that lasted for months. But then we

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Speaker 1: came out into summer, and summer seemed like it was

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Speaker 1: all done over there. No one was wearing masks. We

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Speaker 1: went down south to Pulia. We were jumping off the rocks,

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Speaker 1: we were eating side calamari. Everyone was in the piazza

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Speaker 1: at night. People were dancing. It was unbelievable. And I

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Speaker 1: was like, we have killed the dragon to my husband

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Speaker 1: and he said, I don't think so. I reckon when

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Speaker 1: we move into autumn, we're going to go back into lockdown.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like no, But Peter was wise.

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Speaker 1: Peter was, as is often the case, annoying.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very wise.

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Speaker 1: Annoying.

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Speaker 3: I've hung out with your husband and he's and I've

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Speaker 3: only hung out with him once, but I was instantly

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Speaker 3: taken with how wise he is.

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Speaker 2: Well, Kate, you have a beautiful way with language. You're

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Speaker 2: spoken word one minute, you're laughing hysterically and so so funny,

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Speaker 2: and then the way you put your words together just

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Speaker 2: so it makes you cry by the end of the sentence.

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Speaker 2: And your book is exactly like that.

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Speaker 3: And you did get when you actually did it, which

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Speaker 3: is and I have such envy because I did. I

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Speaker 3: couldn't leave this bloody did it and take a year off.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've got bills to pay. I got stuff

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Speaker 3: like that to you, Kate.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, my darlings. Do you know what? It

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Speaker 1: was the hardest thing we've ever done, aside from health things,

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Speaker 1: but it was also the greatest thing we've ever done.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm jealous as hell and I'm so happy that

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Speaker 2: you're back here. Your new book, chow Bella is in

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Speaker 2: all good bookstores today and probably a few dodgy ones

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh I hope it's in the dodgy ones. Otherwise, how

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Speaker 1: will Jones you get a coffee?

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Speaker 2: Exactly?

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Speaker 3: If it doesn't come in a brown paper bag, I'm

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Speaker 3: not interested. You're not sold at the servo next to

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Speaker 3: the ribald.

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Speaker 1: Kate.

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Speaker 3: It's always a treat to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for I love you too. Thanks Jonesy and

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Speaker 1: Amanda's