Welcome to episode eight of my podcast The view from the crow's nest, and I want to welcome and thank all of the estimated for people who are listening to this that's 25% more than yesterday. And as I always say, or very often say, I'm really massively grateful for each and every person who listens to this at the moment it's four people. Yesterday it was three. I was talking about, well be great if we get to four. And I will thank that fourth person and it looks like it happened. And because I think it's really important that you anybody acknowledges and is grateful for any attention that they get from people that don't necessarily need to give them attention. Even if they need to, you know, it's still grateful because we live in a world where everyone's super busy and to have somebody decide to spend their time with you in whatever capacity that is and giving you their attention is something not to be taken lightly. so thank you very much to all of you people who are listening, or four of you and any more that follow, I'd very much appreciate it. If you hear some background and outside noises that's because right now I am getting the washing in from outside. Because it's nearly time to put the kids to bed and their sheets are on the line. Thankfully dry so apologies if that's in the background but you know multitasking, as I've said many times before leverage. Getting equal or better results in less time is something that I'm a very big proponent of, so that's what I'm doing, getting multiple results, today's podcast can be a little bit different. And it was inspired by something we did last night, which was have a video call have drinks and a video call with some friends in London. And amazingly throughout this coronavirus business it's the first time that we've actually done that first we do video calls in my parents all the time, but this is the first time we put the kids to bed, and cracked open a couple of bottles of Prosecco and chatted to some friends in London, and it was really really really pleasant and we're definitely going to do a lot more with people so there's my first little tip of recommendation. You know, it's so used to seeing people that's great if you're not able to see them or, you know, if you normally find people turn it into a dinner date. If you can't meet up with people you know often meeting with friends, trying to get your diaries out when Can people meet, etc etc. We'll actually just have a video called dinner date works surprisingly well, and certainly the booze helps, so that was good. But one of the things we were discussing is education. And that's what I want to talk about today so I'm not sure if you know this, but my wife and I are homeschooling our kids. We are we've now found out what are called World school ism and world schoolers are a subset of home educators in that you educate whilst travelling and in fact you look at travel as being the world is being the classroom basically and travellers being the mode of educating you know going to see different places, obviously different cultures, different people, different foods different smells sights and sounds, but also to embrace history or to delve into history by visiting places that are significant to whatever it is you want to study or vice versa, you know, studying the places that you're going to visit before during and after because then it brings it to life. So, the conversation we were having our friends are their kids are at school, and they are very much not wanting to homeschool anyone is locked down like a lot of people they've been having to homeschool their kids or at least have their kids at home and it's bonkers in the UK, it's probably the same in many many places that the schools have given so much homework, and curriculum and stuff for people to follow while they're at home for the parents to follow. And it's like, almost full time curriculum, but of course the parents also have their own work to do if they can know if
