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...
27 Nov 2020 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
It's pretty much a given in any field of endeavour... maintenance and upkeep of tools is a necessary but somewhat boring job that constantly gets put off until it is a disaster. Companies and Politicians put off maintenance as it makes the finan...
25 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Normally, I have this weird irrational aversion to cooking whole fish... I'm not really sure why, but it always seems more complicated and tricky than it actually ends up becoming. Or perhaps it is because you can still see the heads and eyes, a...
23 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Before coming to The Netherlands, the thought of riding a bike anywhere was a pretty abhorrent idea to me! I would just get puffed at the first sign of a hill, and the bike would weigh much more than I did... so all in all, it was a terrible way...
21 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
...and now the Miss Saigon recording for my wife's choir moves into the editing phase. Definitely the least fun part of the entire experience, but a necessary evil in this case. Of course, it would be much better to try and do the whole thing...
17 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Phew... a long day of home recording today! As I had written about yesterday, my wife's choirs have moved online for rehearsals. This means that they need some recordings to practice their parts by themselves, as the online rehearsals make it mu...
16 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
So, an interesting week ahead... Netherlands is had a recommendation a couple of weeks ago to cut back on social interactions for Coronavirus. The infections were starting to get really out of control again, and the ICUs were starting to reach c...
12 Nov 2020 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
One birthday, many many years ago... my brother gifted me this lovely sterling silver pocketwatch. It is the sort of thing that goes really really nicely with my concert gear when I'm dressed in tails (no top hat...) as I don't wear watches. How...
1 Nov 2020 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
The Life Splinter is a bit spoilt with a wide range of choices of ranged attack monsters, with monsters like the Peacebringer being one of the ""must-have" cards for any deck. The Rewards set of cards brought another highly sought after card to...
31 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Today was the first music rehearsal for a new Baroque pantomime called The Corona-Files by a little known composer called Mozart! Apparently, Mozart was a long way ahead of his times... and predicted the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020 way back in...
1 Sep 2020 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
I'm a nerd through and through.... and there is nothing more exciting to a nerdy nerd, than getting some shiny new gear in the post!... and this past week, I've had two new shiny purchases arrive in the mail. One the of the interesting things a...
