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...
1 Mar 2023 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
Ahhh... that horrific money sink that is known as the Agricultural or Royal show. Anyway, it is still a nice day out for the family... even if I have to remind the kids that they can't do the showbags or the rides until we have looked at the var...
27 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Ah... so, I have been attached to my old university since I have returned back to Australia as a teacher. And it has been such an honour to be able to be be trusted with the responsibility of helping shape and guide th...
25 Feb 2023 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
I had written a little while back about the troubles of finding the specific strings that I use for my instruments here in Australia. I had assumed that they would be quite easily sourced here in the land down under... as easily as I was able to...
23 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
A bit more clearing this past week... this time in the front area to unclutter the path that leads to the front door. This area has been weeded recently, and so much of the shrubs needed to have all the dead wood removed and the interfering bran...
21 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash This is weird... now that I'm older, I sort of occupy this weird space where I am definitely not the student any more (that sort of finished a couple decades ago...), but in my own mind, I'm not the same as the lecture...
20 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Ah... the fresh new joy of starting a new academic year at university... and for me a mixed weird experience of being a student at one university and a teacher at another! Well, the student part of me is taking a littl...
8 Feb 2023 3 minute read 1 comment bengy
Unsplash Unsplash So, after completing all the budgeting numbers and uploading lots of documents yesterday... today, I moved onto the seriously crappy part of writing a grant funding proposal. You need to address funding criteria and al...
7 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Sigh.... launching and starting a new Early Music ensemble is lots of "interesting" new experiences. This week, I had started locking in players... which was quite nerve-racking even though I had the assurances of peop...
6 Feb 2023 2 minute read 8 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash I have been putting this critical aspect of my ensemble off for a bit too long. I have locked in concert dates (4 main concerts and 3 secondary concerts) for my fledgling ensemble and I've made a start on the website...
5 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
In the coming week, weather permitting, we are going to have another two large trees taken down. Both of them are sick in different ways, so it is a good idea to have them removed before they decide to just lie down on their own accord. So, in p...
