Well welcome everybody to the cart fishing podcast. We are on episode 43 and a very, very happy new year to everybody.

Yes, happy new year from me too.

It seems weird saying that, Mark, because Christmas, what's the date today?

It's the third week in January, isn't it?

Yeah.

I don't know. Christmas feels like a decade ago.

Yeah. Yeah, it's sort of dragged on a little bit,

hasn't it, I suppose? All that cold weather as well

we've had in the last sort of two, three weeks is just,

although it's only two, three weeks,

a very, very cold weather. It's been exceptionally mild up to then,

hasn't it? Yeah. It still seems that it's dragged a little bit, so I get what you're coming from. And I also

think January drags horrendously because anyone that gets paid monthly usually has the benefit

of their employer paying them before Christmas. So usually anyone that gets paid month, you get paid at the

end of the month, don't you? So, but in December, most employers usually pay before anyone breaks

up for Christmas. So what it means is that anyone that gets paid monthly has usually like a four

week cycle till payday. Now it's like extra long and it feels like the month's almost like a double

bubble month in terms of like

yeah yeah yeah because you know you always you know that that payday is a monumental moment in the

calendar isn't it for for everyone and yeah yeah it's funny because it always i think that

exaggerates how long january takes to finish yeah good point yeah good point well we sat today

and we are at the side of a lake, which is nice. The daylight hours are getting longer, which we'll talk about, I'm sure. But yeah, I've kindly got a rod out as well, so I've took the opportunity. We've come down to do the podcast, so we're only here for a couple of hours, but I've pinged a rod out in hope more than anything

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