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...
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...
21 Sep 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
Sigh... insurance, a neccessary safety for the musical instruments. It is something that I've not had to call upon throughout my entire playing life, which is quite nice. Sure, it is good that you are insured for the dollar amount of your belove...
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...
19 Sep 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
When I have been collecting coins, I really prefer to be collecting really old ones... generally with silver content. The only non-silver coins that I have are really really old ones of some sort historical interest... or more recent ones that a...
17 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...
16 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
This was a strange place to visit... I was here as the string tutor for the university orchestra (for which incidentally, I had such a great time with the fledgling professionals, but that is a story for a different time). Anyway, when I told my...
15 Sep 2022 4 minute read 5 comments bengy
Ahhhh... last night I had driven back home from Sydney immediately after the concert to be able to be back home with my family for a least a whole day! So, when the kids had gone to school.. my wife and I (and her father) ended up spending a lon...
11 Sep 2022 6 minute read 2 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Now that I've had a a few more months under my belt with teaching university (and some secondary school) music students, I've come to realise that things that I see in some (many) colleagues in Classical music perhaps...
10 Sep 2022 2 minute read 1 comment bengy
In a relatively touristy area, you can often expect that the eating places are going to be a bit ho-hum at best. The entertainment district in Moore Park is going to be a bit like this... a sort of entertainment area that houses lots of large ev...
7 Sep 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Phew... this was a luxury! An entire day at home to try and get some backyard work done! Except... I had to go into get some other administration chores done in the morning, and so what I was hoping to be a full day of mucking around in the gard...
