The View From The Crow's Nest | 20-10-20

Welcome to Episode 138 of my podcasts, the view from the crow's nest, and it is Tuesday the 20th of October, 2020, and it's a big day today because today was the day that we had all of our stuff shipped over or arrived rather from shipping over from the UK. And if you want to see the results of that, then have a look at my Instagram or Facebook story for today, because I documented it all for your enjoyment, or pain, depending on which side you're looking at it as it wasn't too bad we unloaded the, the truck and unloaded the lorry took about 45 minutes, half hour to unload the lorry. And then within two hours to the minute we got everything off the lorry and everything in the flat. And there was a lot of stuff in the flat. In the in our apartment. And then I spent the rest of the day. That was basically midday, and then I spent the rest of the day, sorting through stuff and empty boxes. I built my, my old computer desk, which is a really nice still nice big office desk I mean it's 20 years old, or more, but it's still in really good condition and it's lovely tablet, big desk again and I'm not upset at it yet, but I've got my old chair, my old office chair, nice comfortable swivel chair. That's lovely to have I built the piano. it fits in our little storeroom which is going to be the music room. Tomorrow I'm gonna see if I can get the drum kit to fit around it and we'll see if I can be super awesome and put the TV on the stand and I'm watching TV this evening, which is just awesome to have our TV back which is, yeah, which is really cool cuz we haven't had obviously haven't had our TV since we left London, and we miss it is nice to have a nice big TV. The kids are gonna love it tomorrow. Had some toys for the kids, old toys but also I've got a couple of toys. Article my mom to pick them up and she shipped them over. So they had some new toys which they were super excited to play with, which is really cool. And they were just fabulously excited to have everything here, bookshelf our library is now looking really good we got all our books back so we've now got our travel section, we've got a health the martial arts section, got music section. Got business and writing section of photography and the kids books is cool. I'm so chuffed. And so, there's still quite a lot of stuff still to deal with. Not sure how we can fit all of this stuff where we're going to fit it, but that is my forte. And also you know we want to be getting rid of a lot of this furniture I mean we've got now the two cot beds or kids beds, from London which we don't need at all. So we need to sell those. And then other furniture in this flat make some more space. But, yeah, so that was my entire day. As you can expect, but I'm really, really chuffed because not only do we get it all, not only is it all in perfect condition, which is good because it cost me 1700 and 50 euros to bring it over, but also actually 1900 euros has already paid on previously. But it's all in Universal so fine which is great, Christmas decorations of Christmas tree, which we were going to get rid of when we left London but then we thought I'll put it in storage you never know. And we certainly didn't know that a year later we're going to be using at Christmas in Castroville that we did not see coming. Yeah, it's nice it's exciting to have stuff back you know start you know, it was never meant to be home, but last year we were just visiting and it was convenient. But now, at least in my mind it's really starting to, to become home and be, you know, be a long term home. And we had for lunch. There was really nice sunshine is about 20 degrees. And we had lunch on the balcony and sat there with the sun on us and it's got a really pretty view. We're very fortunate we like on the edge literally on the edge of the town and a bit higher than the rest of the town. So you can see the mountains to the left. On the left, straight head and on the right as well. So it's really pleasant to sit there and