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13 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Okay... technically, this is the second concert of my new early music ensemble, but the first one was just a solo violin affair and we didn't have a name sorted out yet, just a sort of "working" title that was to be settled later on! So, this is...
5 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
The weather in Canberra (well, most of East of Australia) has been a touch wet and stormy in the past couple of weeks. That has made for some disasterous flooding in some areas of New South Wales... but thankfully, most of Canberra has avoided t...
26 Oct 2022 4 minute read 3 comments bengy
It has been a crazily wet last week... too much rain, and I'm quite thankful that our stormwater is handling it all properly now. However, there are a couple of low areas around our house that take quite a long time to dry out... and when it is...
18 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
The garden is being pretty intensively worked upon from my wife and I over these last few days and the coming few weeks. We are both home, and we have a relatively open schedule until the middle of Novemeber. That means that we can both dedicate...
12 Oct 2022 4 minute read 5 comments bengy
Both my wife and I are in a bit of a lull period for the next month and a bit... no crazy amounts of music to learn and no travelling for me. That will all pick up again from mid November. That means that we both have a good amount of time durin...
2 Oct 2022 1 minute read 2 comments bengy
Doing a regional tour takes us to some very weird little townsin Australia... you never really know if you will be playing in a nice large stately town hall, a private home, a huge shed, or a little chapel. It is always a surprised, and generall...
29 Sep 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Well... I guess that that was always going to be expected if I really thought about it! I'm doing a crapload more driving than I had ever done in the Netherlands. Most of that is really due to the fact that Australia is just a bigger place than...
25 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Now that I've made the trip up and down to Sydney from Canberra quite a few times... I've started to get a bit tired of stopping at the regular pit stops of the petrol stations. Luckily, the route is lined with many wineries that are just off th...
23 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
Australia does have a few quite scenic places... well, quite a lot actually... and much of it comes from the sheer size of the place. Pulpit Rock is an outlook area in the Blue Mountains. A space just off the major roadway crossing the Mountains...
20 Sep 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Mitchell is one of the light industrial areas of Canberra... home to many construction companies and car yards.. and most critically for us, a mechanic and repair shop that we had been recommended (and are usually quite a bit!). We aren't using...
