Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! I'm a Violinist and doing what I love is often interestingly contrasted with the reality of getting to do what I love...
6 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
I love going into second hand bookstores everywhere... I'm always on the lookout for something interesting in the music section. Sometimes you get some interesting discarded scores of music... and at other times some interesting writings on musi...
5 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
I got my Viola d'amore back last week... it was out on loan for someone else to play in a concert, not something that I'm normally that keen on doing, but in this case... I was already asked for the project and couldn't do it, so in that case, it...
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...
1 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Well... it has taken quite some time for me to start to feel comforable with buying silver in Australia. I could easily just go to the coin shop or the Australian Mint... but somehow, I find those places more than a little bit intimidating, so f...
30 Sep 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Sigh... this is going to take ages to mix in the Gymsum and Soil Improver... I'm eventually going also add in the horse or sheep manure when we get it shipped in, but for the moment... it is going to be turning the top 10-20 centimetres of the h...
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...
27 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
So, it is the school holidays... and of course, it is time to see what might be possible to watch all together as a family. A little bit tricky when you have one kid that is 10 and another at 5... but thankfully, the older one still loves her c...
26 Sep 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21. Part 22, P...
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...
24 Sep 2022 1 minute read 2 comments bengy
The Grote Kerk (Great Church) of Den Bosch is a place that had quite a bit of significance for me during my time in the Netherlands. It was a place that housed regular Bach cantatas throughout the year, and when I was a student, I would come and...
