{"id":1201,"date":"2012-01-27T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2012-01-27T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:51:13","slug":"once-more-into-the-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/01\/27\/once-more-into-the-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Once more into the breach."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its not easy keeping it all together at times. If I get engaged or excited enough to care about something I know its going to end in disappointment. Curiously as I have started getting over the physical health problems I have had the mental ones start lurking around the corner. Its a familiar cycle but I can control some aspects of it, (moderate it rather than eliminate it) if I catch the signs early enough. My nature is such that I need to feel in control though I understand that this is an illusion at best, but a comforting one. Tuesday was intended to be a recording session, but that went wrong and in the evening went to our usual local in St Albans to hear some music and see some mates. Wednesday was very interesting filming Vicky Martin interviewing Phil May for <a href=\"http:\/\/liveblues.info\">liveblues.info<\/a> (Lead singer of 60&#8217;s group the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprettythings.net\/\">Pretty things<\/a> who are still at it today, but don&#8217;t look too much like the picture on their website anymore) talking about the Album Bilbao Island which is a surprisingly energetic album for a bunch of fairly ancient rockers. Got the usual photo opportunity so I have attached a pic (how sad am I) BTW Yes I am tall and he is short&#8230; We have a couple of band gigs on Friday and Saturday and another one next Wednesday up in Northampton which should be a good one. The we have one gig-free weekend and it gets fairly busy again.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1202\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/01\/27\/once-more-into-the-breach\/diana-and-phill-may\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Diana-and-Phill-May.jpg?fit=400%2C393&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,393\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Diana and Phil May from the Pretty Things\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Diana-and-Phill-May.jpg?fit=400%2C393&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1202\" title=\"Diana and Phil May from the Pretty Things\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Diana-and-Phill-May.jpg?resize=265%2C260\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Diana-and-Phill-May.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Diana-and-Phill-May.jpg?resize=300%2C294&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Diana-and-Phill-May.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its not easy keeping it all together at times. If I get engaged or excited enough to care about something I know its going to end in disappointment. Curiously as I have started getting over the physical health problems I have had the mental ones start lurking around the corner. Its a familiar cycle but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/01\/27\/once-more-into-the-breach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Once more into the breach.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-jn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179896,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/03\/07\/march-onwards\/","url_meta":{"origin":1201,"position":0},"title":"March Onwards","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 7, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Funny but unfortunately true. pic.twitter.com\/1Gavm8pEeo\u2014 Knowledge Bank (@xKnowledgeBANK) March 6, 2026 Truth... \u201cThat desire which is in us all to better other people\u2019s condition by having them think as we think.\u201dMark Twain.\u201cThe world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.\u201d-A Farewell to Arms,\u00a01929Ernest Hemingway A new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PictureCorridor.png?fit=1085%2C643&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PictureCorridor.png?fit=1085%2C643&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PictureCorridor.png?fit=1085%2C643&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PictureCorridor.png?fit=1085%2C643&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PictureCorridor.png?fit=1085%2C643&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":177979,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/29\/today-its-not-raining\/","url_meta":{"origin":1201,"position":1},"title":"Today It&#8217;s not raining","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hurrah. 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