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...
26 Jun 2022 4 minute read 3 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash This time of the year has always been a bit of a bittersweet one... the end of a Northern hemisphere academic year means that I have students that are finishing up with their final exams of secondary school and are emb...
24 Jun 2022 4 minute read 1 comment bengy
Well... this last weekend, I was shopping online for a textbook. Of course, it is now the End of Financial Year in Australia... which means that there are a whole bunch of books and everything for sale. And being the nerd that I am, I couldn't r...
22 Jun 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Australia is pretty famous for its beers... and some of the larger breweries are definitely quite famous all around the world, and we export that crap stuff to the rest of the world so that you can all drink it down. Meanwhile, the local craft b...
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...
20 Jun 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Phew... what a pain in the arse of a day of completing online forms and navigating the Australian system of crapola that passes for online/digital governmental services. In the Netherlands, many of the governmental se...
18 Jun 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
On a recent visit to Sydney for work, I was told about an ongoing light festival that was happening in the Sydney City area. Well, I've seen some pretty cool light festivals in Europe... so, I was definitely keen to go out and see what Australia...
16 Jun 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
So, after exploring so many churches and cathedrals in Europe, I'm starting to explore the many churches in Australia as concert venues as well. On this day, we had a concert at the Catholic Our Lady of Dolours Church in the Chatswood area of Sy...
15 Jun 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Well... all I can say is this was a bit of a self-inflicted problem. A year or so ago, I had problems booting from my SSD in my laptop... and at the time, I was considering doing a fresh Windows install, as I was wondering if it was a corruption...
13 Jun 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
So... after a couple of weeks of rain, it is time to head on back up to the roof and get those gutter guards installed. Honestly, cleaning out the gutters is a bit of a full time job at the moment... the high winds and the amount of trees means...
12 Jun 2022 4 minute read 4 comments bengy
The transition from Netherlands to Australia has been a bit jarring for some of the instruments, and this hasn't been made easier by my travels between dry-ish and cold Canberra and the more humid and warmer air of Sydney. The instruments themse...
