Category Archives: Musings

Another quiet Sunday

Musings

Today is a giving up day.  I have been trying to get on with stuff but today I ground to a halt. Having said that after putting down tracks for a new song and writing the words to it. So not a wasted day really I suppose. This week we should hear about what happens over the Christmas period in regard to lockdown rules.  Due to personal circumstances I have hardly noticed that we have been locked down anyway.
Over the course of this year I have really only been in contact  with 3 friends face to face plus the odd supermarket shop assistant. 

Its definitely having an effect on me mentally now.  The loss of two good friends in a year and a half plus an exe band member has also been a bit difficult to deal with. 

I am still ploding ing along with music related activities of course though and trying to keep in touch with people is at times not so easy. My mental health is tanking a bit too, 

 

Sad news this month

Musings

Two people known  to  to me have died unexpectedly this month.  One I had not seen for many years but whom I worked with in the band Elephant Shelf. Robbie who was bass player for about 7 years or so. He had a stroke and had not been able to play instruments anymore. He committed suicide.

The other person Ralph Stephenson was a friend of many years standing who had been a regular visitor after the death of Vicky Martin to my home in Great Denham over the last year and a half. he had health issues but his death was unexpected and sudden.  he had a wide range of interests from film and photography to audio recording and music and much more besides having also been a radio DJ and reporter and film news cameraman  for ITN. He was every heavily involved in the alternative  scene in the late 60’s and 70’s. 

Lockdown life is now very quiet. 

 

The things we dare not say

Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, Musings

The things we dare not say,if l write my autobiography I would have to leave all the really interesting bits out.

How many of us really know if we have done more good than harm?  I have broken rules for good reasons and also for bad ones over the years. Judge not lest ye be judged and all that.  I have no idea where I would come on the scales…
i am still thinking the thoughts, even if I am not doing the deeds.  But I do such things in my dreams as would make your mind reel.

So we move in to the last days of Trump. He has 11 weeks to go and we wonder what mischief he will be about in that time?
Best not to think to much about it really in my opinion. Lets hope its a damp squib and he fades away into  the distance with feint echos of the sound and fury preferably on  a black horse with a black hat muttering “You will never take me alive”.   

Currently I am revising my French and about time too as my brain is suffering from lock down malaise. I am also practicing sight reading again with the aim of going straight through without stopping or hesitating. It has to be done. I really want to try and get through this period having gained some skills. I hope my resolve will last.

The bones creaking are still creaking but not too  bad overall with exercise regime. Gently does it but regularly seems to be the watchword. The new back brace works wonders to and has lasting effects. Moodwise I am a bit techy this weekend. I really don’t know why. At the time of writing I have just but down the  basics of a new song. the Lyrics are not cooked yet though. I have some rough ideas, which I might sort of freestyle as I go along. I was going to say extemporise but that sounds a tad pretentious dont you think? 

Be good and if you cant be good be careful.