I'm normally up on the roof every couple of months to clear out the leaves and debris from the gutters and roof as we live on a block with quite a few trees... and it does get quite messy up there. However,

Phew... with silver and gold on a huge tear upwards, it has been quite impossible to win on any of the auctions with stinky bids! No matter, I'm not going to chase the price upwards... and it has sort

I've never really had cause to have get a second monitor for my computing use... when I had a desktop, I had a nice large single screen, and that could easily fit two windows side by side with no problem...

Pffff.... my wife and I have been completely swamped over the last couple of months with music work and just staying on top of everything... and so, we have only just managed to get the Christmas tree

Unsplash Heads down in a large (for us...) multi-year grant funding application that would start in 2027 and complete in 2030.... and the usual annoyances with the crazily short word limits and

Phew... a huge day of recording for my wife and I for our ensemble. And the schedule for the day (not counting rehearsing and admin/logistics in the previous week!): 06:00 Wake 07:15 Dump the kids at

Every musician and especially freelance ones hit this end of the year feeling ready to collapse... actually, I think I hit that point several weeks and a few projects back... but as a freelancer, you have

The mix of end of year projects, grant writing, and other unexpected commitments has meant that gardening and posting have fallen a bit by the wayside. We did have plans to do more in the garden, but the

Many many years ago, I had damaged a bow of mine just before a performance... and I had raced off to a luthier to try and find a replacement one that would be tolerable enough for that concert. He had

Black Friday sales... a good way to pick up some pieces of technology that we have been holding out on until these sales. Things that weren't urgent but would be nice if the right thing was going for the

For a while now, I've been struggling to find a decent case for a Tenor Viola that I have on loan.... it originally came in a small cello soft case, which works... but I'm a bit scared about the lack of

Somewhere in my history, I had used Aztec Network... a sort of exploration of privacy protocols about 4 or 5 years ago... I think it was looking into Zk.Money, and then it shut down... and now Aztec is

Buying games at launch is a really rare event for me... I've often regretted it, as the games go on my list of games to play... and then drop on Humble Bundle before I've actually played it! However, the

This last week or so has seen our bottlebrushes break out into some spectacular sprays of colours... mostly the bright reds that you commonly see around Australia, but a few unusual ones as well! And as

One slightly annoying thing that sometimes happens when you are travelling is that you are checked out of the accommodation on the same day that you have a concert.. and that generally means that from

There has been a bit of a spate of counterfeit cash circulating in Australia in the news recently... and that is quite annoying, as we do still use cash, and it would be supremely annoying if some of those

Sigh, why did we do this to ourselves... our ensemble is hosting a community playing and workshop day. Playing and reading Baroque pieces in the Early Music style... well, our understanding of Early Music.

It is a crazily busy season for me and my instruments... we (and my wife) have been running hard on fumes for quite a while... and last week, I had a brief couple of days off (my wife is having an evening

Okay... a few days spare over since the end of our last ensemble concert and before the start of the next project, and I have time to keep moving on our lawn project in the backyard! I had cleared out

Phew... a busy week behind us, as we wrapped up our last major concert of the year for our ensemble. Although the pointy end is that hectic week, with an intense weekend, much of the planning is a year