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...
24 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash I have been doing some work at the university as a chamber music tutor... I guess that makes me an academic of sorts, but a sort of practical one rather than a theoretical one! Recently, over the last couple of weeks,...
21 Oct 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Phew, that was a good deal less painful than I had expected! I had a really really really old business registration from a music ensemble that I had helped set up a really long time ago.... when I was student, and when...
20 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
I've written about this a bit before... but now that I'm back in Australia, I'm also playing in modern symphony orchestras again, which is a bit of a different experience to my last two decades of playing and specialising only in Early Music. I'...
18 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
The garden is being pretty intensively worked upon from my wife and I over these last few days and the coming few weeks. We are both home, and we have a relatively open schedule until the middle of Novemeber. That means that we can both dedicate...
17 Oct 2022 4 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...
15 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
We have started to plant herbs in one of our garden beds at home... but all of them are still too young and small to start ripping pieces off for cooking. This is especially true for the two rosemary fledglings, which would have enough leaves fo...
12 Oct 2022 4 minute read 5 comments bengy
Both my wife and I are in a bit of a lull period for the next month and a bit... no crazy amounts of music to learn and no travelling for me. That will all pick up again from mid November. That means that we both have a good amount of time durin...
11 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
I've been really putting off changing this top d'amore string for quite some time.... it hadn't quite snapped yet, but as I'm playing on it more to learn a concerto in this coming month... it is starting to fray too much to be able to respond qu...
9 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
... and following on from my Bitcoin reading material from yesterday was something that was completely different but ordered in the same delivery! This one has much more to do with my day job, and it is a book but two of the leading writers in t...
7 Oct 2022 3 minute read 4 comments bengy
This has taken quite a long time to get moving... I had hoped to have this done about half a year ago, but moving country and settling down in a new home and country, plus the regular business of working and all of that stuff... well, it puts a...
