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...
19 Dec 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Day three of the painting job... and it is pretty much all wrapped up successfully! No explosions or fires... so, in my eyes, that is a success! As a bonus, it looks like the painting seems to be okay... and the top of the patio and doors are no...
18 Dec 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ah... like all good construction and renovation projects, I've already started to run overtime... but thankfully, not over-budget (yet...). And likely for the exact same reason... I forgot that I had to teach this morning, and so instead of doin...
17 Dec 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
So, this has been a project that I've been putting off for the better part of the year... partly due to me being away, partly due to my wife finding better things for me to do with my time, and partly because the weather hasn't been great for pa...
8 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Sometimes, instead of doing the garden work... I will just take the time to wander around the garden... picking up fallen branches and sticks to be later fed into the shredder... looking at various bits to figure out what to tackle next... and w...
6 Dec 2022 3 minute read 1 comment bengy
A sort of bittersweet anniversary with Pakjesavond come and gone.... we still miss our adopted home very much, and there will be so much of us that will be forever left and tied up in the Netherlands and Europe in general. Colleagues and close f...
4 Dec 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Wow... it might be that creating my own little fledgling Early Music ensemble in Australia might just work! It has only been half a year, and we have given two concerts that have been quite well received by audience an...
3 Dec 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ahhhh... when you are in the big smoke, you definitely should be looking at all the nice places to pick up things in giant shops which don't tend to exist in the smaller places. Of course, you could always do this online... but there isn't anyth...
29 Nov 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
So, this was my first foray into my rogue mulching project... if you remember, my wife had want ed me to turn the heavy clay soil, seed with gypsum and dynamic lifter, cardboard and mulch the top area. Well, I figured that that top area wasn't r...
24 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Sigh... I still can't believe that sitting through meetings is a sort of thing that most people do.. without mass bloodshed! Honestly, if I had to do this on a regular basis, I would definitely be either tearing my hea...
23 Nov 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash More and more, I'm seeing fellow colleagues using tablets and e-ink slates in place of dead-tree scores... in fact, since moving back to Australia, I've seen it even more in rehearsals and performances. So, there used...
