Welcome to Episode 188 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest. And it is Saturday the second of January 2021. Oh, it's been like a whole year since I've done the podcast, and by that what I really mean is the last one I did was on the 30th of December I didn't do one on New Year's Eve, because frankly, didn't even think of it far too drunk to even consider such a thing. Had you had a really nice New Year's Eve I didn't think it was gonna be quite as enjoyable as it was. But we, we organised a video call with my mum my dad and my brother and we had games. During the call with Mina and Leonardo and we'd set up a little tent with Christmas lights inside it and we did the call inside the tent, eating all berry foods, and actually were on the call for three and a half hours, it was really good. We were all I think very surprised how enjoyable and festive it was. And then after that, did a video call with some other friends, four of us in different locations, and that went on till, not sure when it went on until all I know is that I went to bed at six in the morning. Having drunk. I think four bottles of Prosecco myself. And so, as you can imagine, Friday the first of January. Yesterday was a bit of a Wipeout. It was a house was an utter mess, and I was pretty hung over. So that was just the, the right of the day, and then today. I instigated the first. Well, my only New Year's resolution actually. So my new year's resolution, I don't normally make new year's resolutions I just, you know, do new habits as soon as I'm ready to do new habits, which sometimes coincide with the year sometimes don't mostly don't actually but this one's a new year's resolution. I'm going to get up earlier. And I currently do that so I'm going to go to bed earlier. So this morning I actually had my alarm set for 7am I haven't set an alarm for her basically unless we get an early morning flight and set alarm for about seven or eight years. So, that was for seven and yeah I woke up at 630, which is actually the time I want to be starting to get up. I guess I was stressing about missing the alarm. I'm sure that won't happen all too often, but nonetheless I woke up 630 got up at seven. I immediately got cracking with Italian and music theory practice, and then I tackled the, the lounge which was in the kitchen which is total mess I spent the next 434 hours basically cleaning tidying up. And then, as I had lunch super tired. bath after lunch I think, read some read a book for a bit in the bath, and then get up and did the next bit of DIY. So we, one of my watch words that I used to have and I've kind of forgotten about and we're bringing back in, is really focusing on where you're effectively wasting time have spoke about us on the podcast previously. But where you can leverage your resources better to save time, ideally, so basically anything that you're doing. Consider whether it could be done by something else so some automated process, or someone else that frees you up to, even just chill with your time but certainly do you really need to be doing whatever the task is. And so every day, we're spending you know an hour to two hours doing washing up. And in this apartment. There's no place in the kitchen to put a dishwasher we looked at all sorts of different ways of doing it and it just can't be done. And we actually had a guy over a couple of last week to fix the hob, and he's the guy who instals dishwashers and stuff and we set him about maybe one under the sink and. And he said, just outside the kitchen, you've got a big double bookcase if you remove the lower two shelves on the one side of the bookcase, you could slide a dishwasher in there, it will look ugly as sin and it will poke out into the doorway of the kitchen, but it will work. And it's about the best you can do, and we hadn't thought of that. So like, you know what, that's a good idea because the dishwasher will save us. You know, hundreds of hours a year. So even if it does look a bit fug
