Sydney is the most populous and built up city in Australia... and they are pretty good at telling the rest of us how a

One of the central and founding tenets of crypto has been self-custody... but lets not kid ourselves, self custody of crypto is a pain in the arse for the technically minded, so it is no surprise that

Some groups that I play with are quite politely described as LOADED! No expense is spared for their musicians, 5 star hotels, travel, and generous food allowances... in addition to our every minor need

I had to play with the symphony orchestra the other week, and that meant that one of my violins needed to be strung up with steel and metal strings to fit in. I'm really not fond of using these strings,

Unsplash In addition to our main jobs as musicians and performers, both my wife and I also teach a bit on our instruments, but privately and also at institutions/universities. It is a sort of neccessary

Sigh... with the lull period over for our ensemble, we are now moving into the publicity phase for our next two concerts and tour over the next couple of months. The last month has been mainly involved

With the ground all prepared in the test patch... all that was required was to pick up the lawn rolls and lay them out! We did visit the turf centre together, and although we had initially had the idea

This week is a bit of a lull week... and with the cooler weather, that means that I've got a chance to do quite a bit in the garden... a little burst, before I go away for work again. I had my wife lay

We have been humming and hawing about what sort of ground cover to put down in this large backyard space... and now that the huge sheoak has been taken down, we probably should do something about it in

So much behind the scenes preparation before a concert if you are running an ensemble... one of the less distasteful ones is the transcribing of music for the concert itself. This is sort of relatively

Some really nice pieces of silver and gold have hit the auction house this week and the last couple of weeks! I've been putting in some low to medium bids to hope to pick myself up a bargain or two...

This was a little coffee break that my wife and I took recently... our relatives were talking about a little coffee pl

Unsplash Well... this has been a first for our ensemble. Mostly, we run our own concerts and we just programme whatever the hell we want, and the audience trusts us to come of with something interesting

One of the nicest (and most terrifying...) things about having your own place is the fact that you are responsible for any little fixes and changes that you make. And I'm pretty much a noob with all of

Unsplash Well, now that the dust has settled on the Australian election... and it settled pretty damn quickly... the result is a bit of a landslide for the centre-left Labor party which absolutely slaughtered

I rarely buy games in the first week/month of launch... in fact, I now rarely buy games in the first year or two! Most of that is due to the mammoth backlog of games that I have... and I can't really justify

My thoughts on the latest Humble Choice subscription games!

Hmmmm... it seems like I'm loading up on a bunch of electronics recently! But not on purpose... and apart from this particular purchase, nothing was really for my own daily use! The things that are meant

As an early music specialist... I'm really quite at home at reading old clefs and all manner of writing and typesetting from about 300-400 years ago... even rough little scribbles of composers (and sometimes

Another year, and another birthday... this time for my wife! And as is tradition, we dump our kids and go out to a nic