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Stuf that I can’t fit anywhere else…

How To Keep It All Together

Delta Ladies, Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, music, Musings, other, whatever,

The world is rumbling on toward destruction as ever, its difficult to ignore and hard to understand and exhausting and depressing to think about.

I am lost in a bit of a fog. I have stuff happening which is good though. I do feel very tired quite often, much more often that I use to. Is it just age related? I am OK when I am out and about doing stuff but often on a day at home I just seem to run out of energy. My home is comfortable and I have everything I need here plus my music room/studio which I do use quite often. But just recently I seem to be doing a lot of staring into space. I still have boxes of stuff packed from when we moved 6 years ago that I can’t face sorting out.

This is song from 2022 that needs a bit more love I think. Why not give it a listen and see what you feel.

Elephant Shelf in their heyday in Brighton at The Joogleberry Playhouse.

Remember, don’t take yourself too seriously.

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Lonely Mostly

Delta Ladies, Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, Musings, other, whatever

Sometimes it just gets to you. Today it has. I feel cut off from everything that I don’t experience though the medium of a screen. Its difficult. I can see why people turn to drink I think.Its very quiet here. The usual tricks are not working at all. Its very quiet here. I should be Ok as I have stuff going on and new musical buddies and a few musical positives have happened. So I should be on an up at present, but I am not at all. The evenings are getting lighter but my mood is getting darker.

Here’s an instrumental from August 2023 for you.

Driving Home To See You Again

Almost Easter Again

Delta Ladies, Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, music, Musings, other, whatever

Thats come around quickly. Today I was recording with Jon Bickley and the Invisible Folk Club Band in Whitwell near Luton. It’s a surprisingly scenic area, much to my surprise. You learn something new everyday. Anyway I am back at home thinking. Now that is a dangerous game.
I got home switched the synth on and found some weirdness so I was off and recording a tune. Some unpopular music I think. Violins to be added to taste later.
And here is my new tune



Ways to deal with I depression?

Local walking group? Going for a walk at 09.00 when you can barely stand up due to the spine problems knocks that on the head, though bizarrely 3 hours later I am usually fine. I was very well suited to my previous musical life in terms of body clock and so forth. I only managed to get by in the Civil Service as I could start the day at 10.00 am.

Volunteer?

The labour party is ideologically going to a place that is not for me (far too much tory lite stuff now) . I will vote for them but that is as far as it goes. The latest Labour leaflets are causing a stir as they are plastered in union jacks and people don’t want to distribute them in ethnic minority areas.

There are activities of all sorts going on. I just don’t want to do them alone. As you might well understand making new (platonic as I am emotionally vulnerable) friends as an ageing slightly sweary transgender person is not the easiest thing at times. I am not reclusive, but I do find large groups of people difficult as I am introverted to an extent other than when performing really. Time may of course make all this irrelevant.