One of our last trips to the separatist state of Western Australia, we had a day to do stuff with our kids that didn't

I'm an unashamed nerd... nothing wrong with that, I'll never be the cool kid... and I like the things that I like, and I'm never going to hide it! So, now that I've gotten more comfortable with dropping

Sigh... my wife and I are run off our feet at the moment (hence, the relatively spare posting recently...)... preparing various concerts and repertoire, travelling and touring, and then doing the logistical

Unsplash Running a music ensemble means that we have to interact a good deal more with other arts organisations... not all of them music ones, but a good chunk are. And even if they are music organisations,

A few little snapshots in to the behind the scenes things that happen in a musician's life.... there is a good deal of prep work that needs to happen before we hit the stage. If you are just playing for

For some reason, my mum is always really keen on river cruises... my wife and I don't really get it, you are stuck on

And for the last batch of my run of four wins at the auction house... two old silver coins! I'm really up in the air as to whether I like the new shinies with their amazing designs and sparkling silver

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So, this time I'm showing off two auction lots that I won recently... I did have a weird run of winning four lots in that round... and all four of them were really great ones! These two silver ounces are

Now that it is winter in Australia, it is sort of a good time to try and do some grass and weed clearing... Things aren't popping up within a few hours, and more importantly, the hard rocky clay soil is

Finally! I've been trying to snipe a 1927 Parliamentary House Australian Florin for as long as I've been collecting coins... sure, I don't put in decent enough bids to guarantee an auction win, but I always

My wife and I run a small Early Music ensemble... its really nice to be able to do something at a high level together with your partner in life, and even better when you are both passionate about the work

A few days ago, my oldest daughter when fishing with her cousins on their boat in the local river... but the little on

I recently had to lead an orchestra to accompany a choir... and one of the pieces was a familiar Handel piece, right down my alley of specialisation! But the other was an Arvo Part piece that was also

I love playing in scordatura... an old technique for violin where you return your instrument to something other than the regular fifths tuning. It gives different chordal possibilities and a completely

My wife and I do a postering run around when we have our ensemble concerts coming up... in the early days, we would do

Mount Ainslie is situated just behind the War Memorial and overlooks much of the Canberra Parliamentary Triangle, maki

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Back home for a week before heading off again... and I have a pretty empty week to do some postering for our ensemble, and to spend a few hours in the garden each day. The kids haven't been helping out,

Ahhh... the life of an Early Music specialist! Even if you are highly performance based in comparison to the musicology/historical nerds that also share the field... well, you end up doing more than your