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About diana Stone

Diana is a performing composer and muscian playing Piano Violin & Guitar. She currently plays with the Rock/Roots band Elephant Shelf and also the Delta Ladies who mix roots acoustic music and electronica. She composes in a variety of styles from pop to rock to Jazz and and classical music.Diana is also expert in multi-media recording and music production.

A passing low

Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, history, Musings

In the doldrums’ again. Floating towards the sargasso weed slowly getting stuck.
My moods unaccountably low this week, tired and irritable. Somewhat depressed, and it’s a struggle to get out of bed. I am using all the normal tricks of the trade, but mentally is been a hard week. Or is it just ennui? Talking of which here is a track called “Ennui 11” 🙂
Which implies the existence of ennui 1 to 10.

And it is still raining here.

Welcome to:

Ferenginar the capital planet of the Ferengi Alliance, best known for having nearly constant, planet-wide torrential rains, rotting vegetation, and rivers of muck. Due to the near-constant levels of torrential rain, the buildings are kept under domes, which help keep the resident Ferengi dry.

OK it’s not that bad here yet to be fair.

I feel like I have achieved very little this week over all. I have felt tired and slightly unwell for most of it though. Maybe tomorrow and all that?

Why do we want things that are bad for us?

Musings

Short-term gain pleasures so often turn into long-term sorrow type pains. We have an extraordinary amount of rain locally, but today its stopped after 3 days worth. It is the usual routine this week. Practice and record and see what I can create. No band outings until October starts.

This weeks song that’s scampered off into the wild:

Self destructive behaviours are not always obvious to us and others.

I tried watching Sir Keirs speech.
I had to turn it off.
Why can he not use the phrase “People of this country” instead of the ablest, divisive and offensive “Working people of this country”?
This implies that if you are not economically active you can go “F*** yourself” rather.
Get a new speech writer now.

Its pissed me off so much I feel a song coming on.

Autumnal Thoughts Continued

Musings

Is thinking overrated? Possibly. It’s been a funny week. My car got through the MOT with a spot of wielding this time. Not cheap but much cheaper than replacing it. Other stuff is ticking along though I have not felt 100%. It’s not covid as I checked that. Keeping up with exercises has slipped a bit too. I really need to get back on the exercise bike more again starting now and in fact today I have. The band is getting the odd gig in here and there which is nice. We do need more photos and video to help promote it it though.

I have switched to radio news rather than television with its succession of grim war footage as that’s a bit draining. At least I can know whats going on without having to see too much of it that way.

Last week included making soup, Butternut squash and garlic and onions and potato and things in the first outing for the recently acquired slow cooker and a visit from my sister plus a band rehearsal which went well.

This is my most recent musical offering:

Once upon a time in London on a boat in September 2004 (47 years old ) 🙂 It was cold. And there was a horrible disco.

I am recording a rather mournful sounding violin instrumental, not too sure about it to be honest. Spent a lot of time recording the violin part, so I will put it on hold for a while before mixing. I might change some of the arrangement behind it. I might just bin it. Who knows?
As it turned out I did finish it after all and will point it at the unsuspecting world anyway. They have only themselves to blame.

At present we are having huge amounts of rain and storms which are likely to last for a day or so more and are causing disruption. The rain is quite loud too. A lot of water is falling but we have some seriously heavyweight drainage here, due to being on a flood plain with a water meadow as well as the Great Ouse surrounding us on 3 sides.