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...
19 Aug 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash unsplash Sigh... why did I choose this life? Well... I guess I can't really complain, the life of a freelancer musician... travelling, performing, and just doing what I like doing is quite fun! However, the travelling, the snat...
18 Aug 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Living in our little Australian bush capital, I have to deal with a slightly annoying little worry every time that I travel by plane. As a musician, we always want to have our instruments on board as hand luggage.. due to the fragility of the in...
15 Aug 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
This past week, I have had a pretty pleasant stay in Sydney. The weather has been good, sunny but not very warm (not raining is a lucky bonus at the moment in Sydney!) which means that I'm quite motivated to walk to work! That says a lot, becaus...
14 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
This was the last snatch of gardening that I was able to manage before I left on tour... I had a concert in this evening, and after that a flight to get away and on a chain of projects that would have me mostly away with little moments back at h...
12 Aug 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
When you step off a stupidly early morning flight... you really would like to be able to step out of the taxi and straight into the bed at the hotel. However, sometimes, the hotel room isn't ready... well, if you are that early in the morning......
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...
10 Aug 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
When I was a student.... (sigh, what a way to start a blog post... that was such a long time ago in real-time, but in some ways.... I feel like it was just yesterday!). ... anyway, starting again... When I was younger,I would always have a book...
9 Aug 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Sigh... this coming month is a hectic scheduling of juggling projects and family life. This is probably always going to happen with being a freelancer... but there are going to be periods where the timings are just goi...
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...
