My wife and I do a postering run around when we have our ensemble concerts coming up... in the early days, we would do it separately, but we did find in the end that it was actually quicker and more fun to do the bulk of it together. Sure, there are still some places that we do alone, because those are areas that we often visit for our individual work...

Mount Ainslie is situated just behind the War Memorial and overlooks much of the Canberra Parliamentary Triangle, making it a prime spot for seeing the federal institutions and monuments of Australia. Also, it is crazily popular with walkers and joggers... and parents who would like to torture their kids with a long slow walk uphill!

Oh wow, I'm ALMOST into the current year now with my backlog of Humble Bundle thoughts! Getting there... but if it is anything like my own Steam backlog... it will always just be a little bit further away! And receding away like the expanding Universe!

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, and my wife has been swamped with playing work... so, there are quite a few things that have been stacking up to be done.

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 own fair share of delving into historical archives and reconstructing, transcribing, and otherwise cleaning up old original manuscripts and facsimiles!

Sydney is the most populous and built up city in Australia... and they are pretty good at telling the rest of us how awesome they are! Sure, they can be awesome, just stay in Sydney... and stay awesome there! I find that the city itself is pretty busy... and uncomfortably so... lots of busy people rushing around, and I find it just too much to be around. Lots of inequity as well, lots of homeless right next to boutique shops... and the suburbs where most people live, well are definitely quite the postcard perfect harbour views that the richer parts of Sydney live in.