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...
11 Jun 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
One of the best things about returning back to Australia is the easy access to really great Asian food again. This is especially true of Japanese food, where the offerings in Europe were usually quite expensive and poor quality. In Sydney, there...
9 Jun 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Living in Sydney can be quite a vastly different and varied experience depending on where you live... and where you live will have a great deal to do with your historical and/or current wealth. The Eastern suburbs are home to some of the most be...
7 Jun 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash When we first arrived in Australia, we had a few weeks of looking around on the second hand car market to find a decent family car that was pretty low maintenance to run and fairly economical, with lowish mileage and n...
5 Jun 2022 5 minute read 4 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash ... well, in Australia, but my wife and I have been finding that parents are both whiny and complete shitheads... both to teachers/educators and to their kids. Of course, this is a vast overgeneralisation... but compar...
4 Jun 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
When travelling to Sydney for work, some places put me up in places, others give me an accommodation allowance, and others well... I'm left to my own devices. This means that I'm looking for a place that is both close to where I need to rehearse...
3 Jun 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ah... we finally have had our delivery of our coffee machine. No home is complete without a coffee machine, and so now our home really starts to feel like home! Anyway, our coffee machine in the Netherlands broke near the start of the pandemic.....
2 Jun 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
As always, we have tried to make an opportunity to go to a nice fancy sort of restaurant for birthdays (adult ones...), and for anniversaries. Due to the pandemic, that has been a touch tricky for the last couple of years... and when we have man...
1 Jun 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash I've started to notice that Canberrans can be a bit ragey when they are driving... of course, this is a vast overgeneralisation... but hey, doing that sort of thing makes for more convincing rambles! Anyway... there is...
31 May 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash So... I'm writing whilst feeling a little bit woozy and a touch sore in the under-parts. Today... at the end of the day, I had my little snip.... I had arrived on time at the clinic. This vasectomy can be done with loc...
29 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
I'm starting to discover more and more of the colonial era little churches that are scattered throughout the ex-southern colonies of the British empire (otherwise known as Australia). The ones that are in Sydney are especially quite interesting,...
