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...
14 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
So, for the last year or two, when my Maths/Physics teaching has had to go online for a bit, I have been struggling a little bit with a hacked set up where I would have one zoom session on a computer screen and a second one running on my phone....
10 Feb 2022 2 minute read 3 comments bengy
I love my political cartoons... well, the ones of the Australian variety at least! In my newspaper reading days as a university student, I would eagerly devour the paper... but the political cartooning section would always be one of my favourite...
7 Feb 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
The Left Bank is a pretty nice cafe/restaurant that we visited on a recent trip to Glasgow in Scotland. We were in the area as we were doing a pretty cool treasure hunt with the kids around the area of the Glasgow University, which meant that we...
6 Feb 2022 4 minute read 1 comment bengy
I've long had a iFixit screwdriver kit for all my nerdy tech needs.... and the kids have recently also been hi-jacking it to fix their toys and replace their batteries and all of that stuff that I make them do for themselves (yes, I'm an annoyin...
5 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
This is a nice memory from the middle of the 2021 Corona time. During this time, most of the concerts across Europe were pretty uncertain... most of the large scale ones were being cancelled left, right and centre. Even many of the small ones we...
4 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash This is my series about trying to find our footing in Australia. It will no doubt be a series of joy and sadness and struggle... Things will turn out alright? Won't they? Part 1: Settling In and AdjustingPart 2: Checking In...Part...
2 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
This is my series about trying to find our footing in Australia. It will no doubt be a series of joy and sadness and struggle... Things will turn out alright? Won't they? Part 1: Settling In and AdjustingPart 2: Checking In...Part 3: House Hunti...
1 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
The return back to Australia means that we are also returning back to the tradition of large family gatherings at various picnic and outdoor sites around Canberra. There is no shortage of various parks and reserves around the national capital, a...
30 Jan 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...
29 Jan 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
The Auditorio Nacional de Música (National Concert Hall of Music) in Madrid is the principal concert hall for music in Madrid. From the outside, it is a pretty bland looking building in comparison to the many old-style architectures that you wil...
