{"id":163567,"date":"2020-06-18T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=163567"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:44:14","slug":"its-nearly-the-longest-day-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/06\/18\/its-nearly-the-longest-day-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Its nearly the longest day (June 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"color: #e36d6d;\"><strong>Its nearly the longest day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gosh,&nbsp; mid summer in semi-lockdown already.&nbsp; So&nbsp; a few random thoughts running through my head which I shall jot down here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So today has been a mostly wearing a shoulder brace day. I have just taken it off an few moments ago. It&#8217;s helping a lot. Also the exercises. I still dont have enough of an appetite though. I am now down to 10 stone. Of course one reason may well be no gigs = no beer to start with. From 2018 to 2019 I started buying a lot more booze to drink at home. Not much by most peoples standards but enough. This year maybe one bottle of a wine a week at most. Also no big post gig appetite for 02.00 or 03.00 feasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I often think if I were to actually attempt to write an autobiography and catalog the stuff that has happened to me, both good and bad people would simple not believe it. Also with &#8220;incidents&#8221; we have to remember the effect on the individual psychologically which may be totally disproportionate to the triggering event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I dare not write the songs I would like to. I actually believe that is a casual evil present in the uk running through every layer of our collective nation psyche like the letters in a stick of seaside rock and that the majority of people dont give a flying fuck about others in society as long as nothing affects them personally. Anyway here is&nbsp; a new song for you all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/841976953&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;inverse=false&amp;auto_play=true&amp;show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\">\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7<\/p>\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Cracked Social Media Screen\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/cracked-social-media-screen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cracked Social Media Screen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">I did a bit more recording with the dulcima this week. Its spooky because due to the nature of the instrument and the tuning it could be Vicky playing it. Also I would have been heavily influenced along the way.. I am doing a dulcima tin whistle and fiddle tune that will sound very raw. I can play the dulcima but on one level it does not speak to me easily. I shall crack on though and see if the result is worth bothering with. as you do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We have had massive downpours here. Unbelievable amounts of wet falling out of the sky&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I have recently discovered a few&nbsp; possibilities of live video via the web ab that go far beyond what a lot of people will be considering. On my most powerful computer I have some software which not only allows me to combine 7 or 8 video sources essentially make broadcast studio but also allows me to take any content from the web and include it the reason this is useful is because they always it may turn into a potential money spinner. So be very afraid is all I shall say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its nearly the longest day Gosh,&nbsp; mid summer in semi-lockdown already.&nbsp; So&nbsp; a few random thoughts running through my head which I shall jot down here. So today has been a mostly wearing a shoulder brace day. I have just taken it off an few moments ago. It&#8217;s helping a lot. Also the exercises. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/06\/18\/its-nearly-the-longest-day-june-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Its nearly the longest day (June 2020)<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Gyb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179043,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/19\/its-nearly-the-longest-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":163567,"position":0},"title":"Its nearly the longest day","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Midsummer's fast approaching. 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