Category Archives: Musings

Just a thought that not much changes.

December 7, 2025Musingsdiana Stone

I just had a R-eform leaflet through my door this morning. I can’t honestly express how much I despise that bloke. I hope he and Putin don’t stand on any structurally unsound balcony’s together as it would be tragic…

I wrote this in July 2018.

At the end of the day Would you rather be part of Europe or a Tax haven heritage park?
Please note this is a personal view. I do not claim to be able to substantiate this but it seems logical to extrapolate this from the events which have to lead us to this point.
My view is that it’s been fixed so it won’t matter what we vote for it will be some variation on out. There will not be any choice given. There is no proper political opposition now in the UK. So there must be massive collision.
There are small groups of mostly very wealthy individuals who have orchestrated this for their own advantage. Some are English but many have deep connections to the USA. Those individuals have the following agenda:
1) Forcing down wages
2) Attempting to remove workers’ rights.
3) Gaining almost total control of the mainstream news media
4) Attempting to remove the NHS and replace it with an insurance-based system
5) De-stabilizing the economy to asset strip and then take ownership whilst keep their own wealth safely offshore in other places
6) Facilitating all of this by inducing paranoia based on non-existent threats and fear of the other. This prompted by breeding a culture of xenophobia and casual racism.
7) Inviting foreign agitators Steve Bannon and similar supremacist nationalists to this country to spread an often hate-filled agenda.

Lessons from history are being ignored and it may well already be too late.
Their idea is to destroy the UK, pick over the bones and then rebuild it in their own image whilst the Jacob Rees Moggs and Ian Duncan Smiths make a fortune.
The sad thing is that will be so many brain dead people shouting we have taken back our sovereignty whilst everything that made the UK a decent place is stripped away and we become some sort of European tax haven and theme park.
Ye Olde England crossed with 1950s Britain. Don’t worry about financial collapse feel the sovereignty
Better get your flap caps and be ready to doff them…..
God bless you, governor, spare a tanner for a cup of tea.

Hebrews 13:2 (“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it”).

December begins

December 6, 2025Musingsdiana Stone

A wobbly start to the month. The overwhelming urge to hibernate is getting really strong at present. A few minor tech problems hit my music making, but I think I have got it licked now. Well almost so we will see. Cubase has decided to crash randomly and I think it is a driver error but who knows. That is why I tend to stick with hardware based recording systems most of the time now.

Diana Stones Glasscage · Slow Sunday Winter

Well, was trying to gird up my folky loins for this evening with the Invisible-folk-club-band. Sadly the weather beat me into submission, due to storms and flash flooding everywhere so I decided to not be be stupid and turn back. Can’t win em all but it’s going to be raining on and off all night and I really don’t want to get stuck out anywhere in the middle of nowhere on my own. Hopefully the Christmas tree fest in Olney tomorrow will go a little better (it did though even that was problematical). I hate to miss a gig but that’s life I guess. I have only missed about 5 over 20 years plus or so I guess its Ok. “You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em Know when to walk away and know when to run”…I do feel a bit less invulnerable recently, its age I guess.

I have been thinking I must transcribe a few of my less obscure songs and do few at the odd open mike next year maybe? I have a lot of stuff which I work on and record and then promptly forget. So thats my next trick I guess. Something to work on during Gloommass and the new year. Interesting that in rehearsals I was making the odd daft joke and I thought to myself if I get some material together maybe the occasional solo gig might be possible. I have done them before and they were far better received than they should have been frankly. That would be a tangible thing to aim for I think that might fill in the gaps. I can find my most played songs on the streaming services and transcribe those and that should give me a reasonable set list perhaps.

There is still a lot of bad news out there and right now I can’t deal with it.

Echoes Of Other Lives

November 28, 2025Musingsdiana Stone

Quite funny hearing Nigel Farage’s school days being reminisced about by 18 people that attest he was a bit of cunt then, though I first heard about this many years ago. The stories are consistent over the years which suggest they are likely to be true. The odd things is what they are describing is so similar to the kid that eventually went full national front and shot my house up and so forth with his mates. They must have been separated at birth I reckon. At that time people were buying the Little Red Book but a few were buying Mien Kampf too including the protagonist of my woes. Eerily similar in that apparently my nemesis went on to be an accountant though that’s not far from being a banker. People do walk similar paths in life but you do wonder why they chose particular ones.

Diana Stones Glasscage · Crusing Elevator Easy Music

Into every life a little rain must fall. The above is looking to be my least popular tune ever. Is it a sign…

“We are freezing known Russian assets, but let me be clear, I don’t actually mean the honourable member for Clacton”

Rachel Reeves

I know it was a daft joke, but there is an element perhaps now of “We see you Nigel” creeping in. I am very pleased that the child benefit cap has been lifted. A few good things in the budget overall I thought. I am not worried about the fact that tax thresholds have been further frozen.

Made me laugh anyway. But if you think that stuff might be happening or have happened, then maybe if your are in the UK sign this.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215

There are a lot of people who have a very simple belief system:

1) Taxes are theft
2) Pensioners apart from their own parents are rich bastards with huge houses
3) Disabled people are scroungers.
4) We are being replaced by migrants.
5) Anybody that doesn’t look or sound like us is the enemy
6) Insert any old rubbish here…

I used to meet a lot of people in pubs who expressed those views or mildly disguised versions of them. Often ironically in unionised closed shop jobs and they were mostly very white….. What they never seem to grasp is somebody else is pulling the strings and placing the ideas in their minds.

When we were having a jolly Japes in the Deltas and so on we were both pretty much broke and living week to week at times. So the main thrust was surviving. Now there has been a lot of time to think. I really didn’t believe once I was getting my pension everything would be hunky dory but not struggling to exist day to day paradoxically now seems to have brought out a lot of the old demons again. Lorraine (Scottish temp Delta Lady) thought I had PTSD due to a combo of childhood bullying and also loosing Vicky in the way it happened. I think there might be an element of truth in that though I think it’s also about genetic predisposition towards depression as well. I think that and lockdown just drove me off a cliff to an extent.
I am now in a different place and it feels almost like being in exile at times. I just can’t seem to get back with around people socially much. I have sort of forgotten how along the line.
I have a feeling of missing my connection, I got off the train to change but now I can’t find one to take me to my destination only a replacement bus service and that has been cancelled.