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...
10 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Sometimes my music work in the Netherlands takes me to some incredibly odd places... this particular time it was to a little church in a little town to the far north of the country. So, from where I live, it was a touch over 3 hours in a car.......
7 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
When you are in Spain, you are going to often be thinking about food! Compared to the northern lands of Europe, food is much better quality and cheaper down here... and so it will be hard to go wrong with finding a decent place to shop for food....
6 Aug 2021 3 minute read 3 comments bengy
It is a weird thing, but in the last week, our youngest has become completely obsessed about finding a coconut and drinking from it. She keeps saying that she had seen it on Gigantasaurous (a dinosaur TV series that she was was a huge fan of ove...
3 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ah, our family is really getting into this Geocaching as a little escape for the kids and having a reason to go for progressively longer and longer walks! Somehow, just having a little treasure hunt is enough to get the kids motivated even to get out...
2 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
So, assignments are done and there is a little break in music work (hopefully for just a short time... although, with summer spikes in corona cases, I suspect that there may be some more involuntary breaks coming ahead...). Which means that it i...
31 Jul 2021 3 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. Arrrggggh... I can't tell you how much I hate...
28 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
This was a nice outing that we went to whilst on holiday up in the Dutch island of Texel, a short drive and ferry trip away from Amsterdam. The Ijsboerderij Labora (the Ice Cream Farm) is one of the most popular places on the island of Texel wit...
27 Jul 2021 3 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. ... and after a week of slow progress (due to a family...
21 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
I guess every parent already knows this... but sometimes it can be hard to get kids (and fathers...) to go for a walk or a bike ride if there isn't something interesting on the other end. Actually, I know that I'm pretty terrible at this myself... an...
18 Jul 2021 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
I'm not much of a beer drinker, I do prefer my spirits if I do have to drink something... and if I'm drinking something with dinner, I will generally go with a good cider (not Strongbow) as my first choice. It's not that I don't like beer, I jus...
