The Glamorous Life of a Musician!
The Glamorous Life of a Musician!

The Glamorous Life of a Musician!

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...


The Right Tools, and Slow Steady Progress

2 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  I've now come to idea that slow and steady progress is really going to be the way that we will wrangle this large garden into shape! It is quite a large plot of suburban land, and there is lots and lots to rectify and fix up... and it is temptin...

Harpsichords: Role and Function in a Baroque Ensemble

31 Jan 2023 2 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Now that I'm forming up a new ensemble, I have to think a little bit more about things that I've not really had to think about too much beforehand... all the back-end stuff is a real pain in the arse, but necessary. Which reminds me, I have to s...

Cable and Hardware sorting

30 Jan 2023 2 minute read 2 comments bengy

  I guess that this is a problem that most people with a passing interest in technology and gadgets will have... the boxes of stashed cables, wall warts, and old hardware... all waiting for the right moment to be pulled out to use, with a "TOLD YO...

Masters of Teaching Brain Dump #42: Moving into the third year...

29 Jan 2023 3 minute read 2 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...

Reflections from a Farm Part 1

25 Jan 2023 2 minute read 0 comments bengy

  So, I've been spending a week or so on a farm... one part of a family has moved out onto a large property in regional Victoria, and they are now finding themselves (well, half of them...) running a farm. Of course, it is a smallish farm as far a...

My wife is the best!

16 Jan 2023 2 minute read 2 comments bengy

  Ah, Australia is currently "suffering" from a glut of mangoes... apparently, it was a crazily good growing season in the north and there are just too many mangoes being shipped down south. This is perfect for us in our first full summer in Austr...

Thoughts on "Popularising" Classical Music

15 Jan 2023 3 minute read 2 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Recently, I had my first experience with an interesting sort of music performance.... in my sort of cloistered life, I hadn't known about these Candlelight Concerts by Fever. Probably most people haven't either... well...

Masters of Teaching Brain Dump #41: Academic nonsense...

14 Jan 2023 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...

Book, Book, Book...

13 Jan 2023 2 minute read 0 comments bengy

  "How many books have you ordered?" asks my wife as she she looks at the blurb on another pickup from our post office box.... followed closely by, "This looks interesting..." as she places it on her pile of books on her side of the bed! ARRRGH......

Completing More Tasks!

12 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Ahhhh... a productive little week of getting stuff done. As I've mentioned before, we have a pretty large suburban block with lots that needs to be done... courtesy of a previous owner who didn't really do that much for maintenance and let thing...