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11 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
I have little days here and there in my touring schedule where I am making an effort to return home to help out with the kids... and to do a bit more on the garden so that it starts to look less like a muddy bogpit and more like a home! This lit...
7 Aug 2022 2 minute read 1 comment bengy
It is interesting that I've just left the Netherlands, and I'm going to see a Van Gogh exhibition in Australia when I had access to so many of his works in the local museums back in the old home! Anyway, my wife was pretty surprised that I was g...
6 Aug 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Well... this is a sight that most people won't really associate with Australia. Most people will think of endless Sun and heat, and perhaps drought. And that was true not so long ago... but at the moment, we are going through a period of unusual...
31 Jul 2022 2 minute read 5 comments bengy
Oh wow, the concert venue landscape in Australia has changed quite a bit since I was last living here. Well, I guess that is really to be expected after almost two decades... and it does mean that I'm not only revisiting old favourites, but also...
26 Jul 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
This was a place that I visited on one of my first forays into Sydney soon after arriving back into Australia in the midst of the Omicron outbreak. It was quite strange to be back in a familiar yet alien city and society... and I had no idea whe...
24 Jul 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
As I've mentioned in previous restaurant reviews, much of the time, I'm hunting around for something to eat in that short space between a seating call rehearsal and the actual concert for the evening. So, options are a bit limited; as I'm constr...
20 Jul 2022 4 minute read 4 comments bengy
Well... the front of our house (and the back) is looking a little bit denuded at the moment. So many small trees and shrubs needed to be removed to make a path for the trenches of the pipework. I had moved a couple of the bottle-brushes beforeha...
17 Jul 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Well... when you are in Sydney, one of the things that you are likely to end up doing is to take a trip over to Manly Beach. It is one of the more famed beaches in Sydney, but I think I think that if you are in Australia, I would much prefer to...
14 Jul 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Trackdown Studios is a pretty famous place if you are into movies or computer games... it is the recording studio where quite a few soundtracks for movies and games have been recorded. For the curious minded, you can see a list of soundtracks th...
21 Jun 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
A few weeks back, I was graciously put up in a nice house in Newtown... I really like having accommodation that isn't a hotel, and when I'm being housed by a friend of the ensemble, it is even better when the host has gone away for a holiday as...
