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...
5 Aug 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ahhhhh... a long awaited package finally arrived today! As I'm now in a new country... it is my duty to seek out and support the local producers! And part of that journey is to seek out the best breweries and distilleries that are in the area, o...
4 Aug 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Today was a crazily wet and windy day in Canberra and the surrounds... as I've mentioned before in previous garden journals, we have recently had our stormwater and sewage redone after the trees decided to take up residence in the old pipes. Tod...
1 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash In a bit of a weird turn of events... I'm now an academic at a university now! Which is a crazily strange feeling for a performer musician... but seeing as most conservatories have been melded into universities in Aust...
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...
31 Jul 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
One of the perks for the Crypto.com Visa debit card (depending on your staking tier) is the LoungeKey membership. This is the sort of frequent fliers lounge access club... and I've seen it there for ages, but never activated it. Actually, I'm us...
28 Jul 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Normally, when I'm boarding a plane or just travelling, I will have my violin/viola case, a small check-in bag, and a laptop bag with me.... it is a crazily familiar feeling having the laptop bag hang off me on one side, and the instrument case...
28 Jul 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Yesterday was supposed to be a day of getting stuff done... and I did manage a good deal, but it really got quite bogged down with administrative sorts of things which was a good deal less exciting than it sounds! However, at the end of the day....
27 Jul 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Sigh... being a musician can involve a whole batch of other things that aren't related to music. Of course, the lucky ones who stay put in a single group and city don't have to worry too much about this sort of thing... but being a freelancer (a...
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...
25 Jul 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
Now that the garden area is a complete blank slate (and in some cases... really seriously blank...), it is time to start making it our own. Of course, these things will take years and seasons to finish... but the best way to get there, is to jus...
