A post to collect some of my writings, I will periodically update and add in new stuff!

Hmmmmm... we have a nice new harpsichord, a single manual Flemish model with two 8 foot and a single 4 foot choirs of strings. And apparently, our living room can't stay in this formation... we are going

Our concert weekends can be a bit hectic... on the music side of things, we do run a pretty fast and tight schedule. On the Saturday, we have two calls of rehearsals (2 times 3 hours)... one in the morning

Sigh... a combination of overloaded work schedule, a sore leg, and lots of rain from storms... mixed in with a healthy dose of strong days of hot sun... well... the backyard project has gotten out of hand!

Okay, this is definitely something that I should have done a long time ago... one of the more annoying design decisions on the Steam Deck was to have the USB-C charging port on the top of the machine...

Well... the day finally arrived, our ensemble core (my wife and I) did a recording at the end of last year... and we have been scrounging time in between various projects and just being parents to get

Ahhhhh... the house technology cascade! My wife had a pretty nice XPS15 that she got from me many years ago when I upgraded to a really nice gaming laptop. But thanks to Windows 10 support coming to an

Unsplash I'm a musician... and mostly performing... but I do do (hehe...) some teaching at the local university, both ensemble and individual... sometimes to do with my specialisation of Early Music, and

One of the nicest things about being a husband-wife ensemble core... and without a "business"-minded board... is the ability to just do whatever we want without needing to run it past non-musicians

Trawling Kickstarter is always going to be a bit of dangerous experience for me... games, comics... and of course, the hardware section! Games have tended to be a bit of a hit and miss affair... too much

This pile of mulch is now over a year old... it came from a huge tree that dropped a couple of large branches in a storm that damaged our neighbour's play equipment and squashed their Hills hoist clothes

Hmmmm... it appears that I'm the default organiser for a concert that I was asked to lead the ensemble for... It is a harpsichord concert that will feature concerti for 4 and 2 harpsichords by JS Bach,

Ahhhhh... I have two batches of music coming in from Europe. Normally, I'm able to source a good chunk of our music for our ensemble via facsimiles and old prints from the Baroque and Classical eras...

Well... we are now in the lull period... a week or so of calm, before the flurry of concerts for our ensemble starts for the year... and from there, it is pretty-full on for the both of us with our own

Well, with a bit of a cooler change in the weather, the time had come to cut out all the dead parts of this heat damaged bush... with the hopes that it would recover and regrow the bits had wilted and

It has been alternating between storms and really hot weather since the start of the year... which means that the plants that survive the searing heat are doing really well... and the ones that suffered

Unsplash Eeep... I've been away a bit from HIVE and only just managing to check in with writing about once or twice a week at the moment. In the past, it has been everyday... but it has been a weirdly

Although in my brain, I don't feel old... sometimes my body sends me little reminders that I'm no longer in my 20s! Of course, I'm not THAT old... I have hit my 50s yet, but I'm starting approach it. That

Ah... we do love going to Jervis Bay for a little bit of a family (no extended family...) recharge time. It is almost

I had pretty high hopes for the metal mesh that I had installed in our gutter valley on the roof.... this was the area that would catch lots of the leaves from our trees, and when it rained it would overflow

My wife and I did a day of recording at the end of last year... and it went pretty smoothly, and we got quite a lot of decent takes of quite a few pieces. And we have to start the editing process with