Category Archives: Piano

A Quiet Week In Great Denham

I have had a rather low key week and been at home for most of it. Working on music and related activity’s. My moods been Ok despite the damp weather triggering my arthritis.
I started very gently getting back in to my exercise routine this morning as though I am active I have missed it for a couple of weeks, mostly due to loosing the motivation as much as anything else. It does help physically and psychologically I feel. At this time of year I think it is an essential really. But motivation is lacking.

But I do have a Christmas tree, although a very small one. We will have no reckless excess in this house.

In a moment of madness I brought a new keyboard I last brought one in about 2013 so I guess it is excusable really. Nothing fancy but a useful additional to my arsenal both for recording and live performances. My new year resolution ought to be to get out and do the odd live solo live performance in the Bedford area occasionally. I am getting out and doing a bit of stuff with the other acts though of course. If I am spared (perhaps) as a reclusive local friend often says.
I have fallen in to a bit of a routine pattern recently. Most days I start writing a blog entry which seems to help keep my thoughts in order, or at least gets them out of my head where they tend to cause severe congestion in the synaptic pathways. Hopefully also helping me not to repeat the mistakes of personal history maybe?

Looking back at what could I have done differently in life, well there are loads of things with the benefit of hindsight of course, but perhaps it would not have been so much fun. But its all a roll of the dice when you look at , and often not too many rational measured decisions. Often there seemed to be no time to think then. Now there is too much time it seems.

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    I am So Empty Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Safe For The Moment by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    A moment of pure joy letting go
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    jazz fusion world style instrumental
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    Simple acoustic guitar instrumental tune.
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    Autumnal Piano Piece
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    Wish You Would Let Me by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    False Prophet by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    In To The Dark by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Third World Intervention by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Hard Walk Into Sunlight by Diana Stones Glasscage

A Jolly Tune

Here is an upbeat trance crossover tune for you all. Posted on a dull autumn Sunday.

OK, so I didn’t sleep so well last night, but mostly alright. A fairly productive day yesterday with music and related doings at home. Bones a bit creaky again so making sure to do my morning exercises routine again. I am doing a short version to get back in to it as I have been slacking and its showing. My body knows the season has changed. Among other activity’s I have indulged in has been a small sightreading mini marathon on the piano, mostly hymns and Victorian an Edwardian parlour songs. Played inaccurately but non stop. The power of prescription reading glasses I guess.

Some days I do feel really, really old and other days not at all. I have just been unloading music kit from the car until its required next week. I used to leave stuff in the car when we were in London as it was always out of sight and often one could not park very near to the car. Also have frequent gigs then would have required taking stuff out on one day and putting it back the next virtually. Now having secure storage at ground level means its not required anymore.
Since we moved though I have still not sorted out a lot of the redundant kit, though I have sold some of it.

I think as I age and time passes the most important things is for me to have fun and do no harm.
I can’t save the world single handed, but sometimes the little things we do can make a difference to the balance of things though sometimes it takes a lot of time to see that change..

When To Run Away And When To Stand Your Ground

Tricky one that. Run away is looking a pretty solid option at present. But where to? There is no further shore where the land is calm and bountiful and the weather temperate. Or if there is I haven’t seen it yet.

Winter is not fully hear yet, we are in that strange nether world, between and betwixt at present. Interesting light and colours abounding until the dark comes down suddenly and very early or so it feels to me at least. the abrupt change to the dark evenings is always hard going for me personally. Though its a good time for working on music and recordings and related stuff with less distraction. on my of my website music outlets I have on their stats listings:

3 top 1
109 top 50
648 songs
91.2K plays

If I total up all my music plays over all of the places its available I have I guess around.
250,000 plays. Not bad as it means I do get people listening to what I do. So that’s fun.
Of course it doesn’t make me much money at all maybe about £400 a year from everything I do including recordings made with other people as well as my own. I don’t make a living from being a live performer these days like I did when I was in the Delta Ladies though. But nothing stays the same for ever But considering where I started in life it could be a lot worse. Would I have liked to be a Super Star? 😂 Might have been fun I guess though it sounds like a lot of hard work really.

Below is me singing an old song, solo with piano. I may do a few versions of my songs this way to Facebook and TikTok, Instagram and so forth in future.

I asked a machine to tell me about forgiveness and the concept of “turning the other cheek”.
This is what it said. These embody a profound resilience and compassion in the face of conflict. Turning the other cheek is a metaphorical expression often associated with responding to aggression or offense with non-retaliation. It emphasizes the transformative power of forgiveness, encouraging individuals to break the cycle of negativity and choose understanding over revenge. Perhaps we need to be ruled by the machines after all. Perhaps our new cyber overlords would be kind and indulgent with us even though they might see us as merely pets?
We seem to be in need of forgiveness now.

The machine spoke to me again today. What is love?

“Love” is a complex and multifaceted concept that has been explored and defined in various ways throughout history, literature, philosophy, and psychology. It encompasses a range of emotions, attitudes, and behaviors, and its meaning can vary depending on the context and the individuals involved. Generally, love is often described as a deep affection, attachment, or strong positive feeling towards someone or something.

But of course humans programmed it, though sometimes you wouldn’t think so.

Mind how you go.