{"id":170114,"date":"2020-10-17T21:09:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=170114"},"modified":"2020-10-17T21:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T20:09:49","slug":"more-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/10\/17\/more-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"More October 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=\"\">Its turning into a long month.&nbsp; Covids on the rise according to the latest stats.&nbsp; Its&nbsp; a Saturday and I am watching &#8220;The Big Bang Theory&#8221; on the box. I do enjoy the show but Its really not my ideal Saturday night to be honest. I hope at least a few of you have better things to do with your time. I think the weekends are more difficult in some respects for me personally as there is no differentiation between those and any other days of the week. So I am typing this as a sort of therapy I guess. Also as a break from various musical doings that are filling most of my time now as I feel as if I am stuck in a perpetual groundhog day loop now.&nbsp; I know a few people are lucky enough to be out getting the odd gig or two, and that&#8217;s great.&nbsp; However Covid or no Covid my attempt to keep the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltaladies.com\/\">Delta ladies<\/a>&#8221; going wasn&#8217;t really working and in a sense recent events have made it obvious that its really not going to.&nbsp; So that&#8217;s a chapter thats over now. But I gave it my best shot under the circumstances. It was though 14 years of my life and around 130 gigs a year on average. And that ended pretty much with Vicky Martins passing in April 2019. I&nbsp; played a few gigs afterwards but then Covid-19 finished things for good pretty much. Anything I do in future has to be different, but its like starting from scratch and I dont think I have it in me as you need a particular sort of personality to front a show, and it seems that is not really me right now at least. Of course it may be there isn&#8217;t actually much of a future any and that&#8217;s that?<\/p>\n<p>I will try to keep making music of course as there is not much else I could do really.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/841976953&amp;color=%23de7543&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" 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<div>\n<div class=\"_1t_p clearfix\">\n<div class=\"_41ud\">\n<div class=\"clearfix _o46 _3erg _3i_m _nd_ _8lma direction_ltr text_align_ltr\">\n<div data-tooltip-content=\"15:23\" data-hover=\"tooltip\" data-tooltip-position=\"above\" class=\"_3058 _ui9 _hh7 _6ybn _s1- _52mr _43by _6ybp _3oh-\" id=\"js_1b\" aria-describedby=\"js_14\">\n<div tabindex=\"0\">In other news.<\/div>\n<div tabindex=\"0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_aok _7i2m\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"_3oh- _58nk\">I woke up last night with a pain like something had snapped, I had to lie on my side. Fortunately it went away. I think the culprit maybe the new upper back exercises I am doing. So more caution is advised.<\/span><\/div>\n<div tabindex=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_1t_p clearfix\">\n<div class=\"_1t_q\">\n<div class=\"_7934 _150g uiPopover _6a _6b\">\n<div class=\"_4ldz _1t_r _p\" data-tooltip-content=\"Kay Meddings\" data-hover=\"tooltip\" data-tooltip-position=\"left\" role=\"button\">\n<div class=\"_4ld- _7q1r\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"_1t_p clearfix\">\n<div class=\"_41ud\">\n<div class=\"clearfix _o46 _3erg _3i_m _nd_ _8lma direction_ltr text_align_ltr\">\n<div data-tooltip-content=\"16:30\" data-hover=\"tooltip\" data-tooltip-position=\"above\" class=\"_3058 _ui9 _hh7 _6ybn _s1- _52mr _43by _6ybp _3oh-\" id=\"js_1c\" aria-describedby=\"js_14\">\n<div class=\"_aok _7i2m\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"_3oh- _58nk\">All my exercises are basically to make sure I stay as mobile as possible. The upper back is lightly to cause some discomfort as specific muscles will be stretching out of there usually postions. Its hitting the point where there is resistance but not strain that is the difficult bit. It seems to benefit my ability to sit and type more easily and also sit in a much bette posture with out leaning forward. that could be a big deal if I can keep it up as it would allow me to do more useful computer based stuff and might even allow me to get a bit of an extra income from IT again. If I can just sit down for 2 hours a day in front of a compute there is work that I could potentially do that would benefit me. Also the upper back and violin playing are inextricably linked and the better the shoulders and upper back are in terms of freedom of movement the easier it is and the better it sounds.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_1t_p clearfix\">\n<div class=\"_1t_q\">\n<div class=\"_7934 _150g uiPopover _6a _6b\">\n<div class=\"_4ldz _1t_r _p\" data-tooltip-content=\"Kay Meddings\" data-hover=\"tooltip\" data-tooltip-position=\"left\" role=\"button\">\n<div class=\"_4ld- _7q1r\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<p class=\"mod-reset\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">its along road&#8230;..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_41ud\">\n<h5 class=\"_ih3 _-ne\" aria-label=\"Kay\">&nbsp;<\/h5>\n<div class=\"clearfix _o46 _3erg _29_7 _8lma direction_ltr text_align_ltr\">\n<div data-tooltip-content=\"17:14\" data-hover=\"tooltip\" data-tooltip-position=\"left\" class=\"_3058 _ui9 _hh7 _6ybn _s1- _52mr _3oh-\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_41ud\">\n<h5 class=\"_ih3 _-ne\" aria-label=\"Kay\">&nbsp;<\/h5>\n<div class=\"clearfix _o46 _3erg _29_7 _8lma direction_ltr text_align_ltr\">\n<div data-tooltip-content=\"16:04\" data-hover=\"tooltip\" data-tooltip-position=\"left\" class=\"_3058 _ui9 _hh7 _6ybn _s1- _52mr _3oh-\" id=\"js_19\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its turning into a long month.&nbsp; Covids on the rise according to the latest stats.&nbsp; Its&nbsp; a Saturday and I am watching &#8220;The Big Bang Theory&#8221; on the box. I do enjoy the show but Its really not my ideal Saturday night to be honest. I hope at least a few of you have better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/10\/17\/more-october-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More October 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-IfM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175072,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/08\/19\/the-long-way-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":170114,"position":0},"title":"The Long Way Home","author":"diana Stone","date":"August 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"You can't generally speaking walk in someone else shoes they say. Perhaps you can try but mostly its not a good idea if you can avoid it.\u00a0 I had been trying to do exactly that for the last couple of years subconsciously since the loss of my co-conspirator and leading\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175571,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/11\/16\/the-little-green-dragon\/","url_meta":{"origin":170114,"position":1},"title":"The Little Green Dragon","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I played a gig at a venue I have not visited since 2019 which used to be a regular haunt for the Delta Ladies, both to play at and to have a drink in. This is the \"New Delta Ladies\" and my co-conspirator is Jan Jackson on Bass and vocals.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Delta-Ladies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Delta-Ladies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Delta-Ladies.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Delta-Ladies.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Delta-Ladies.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Delta-Ladies.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175392,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/07\/30\/hanging-on-in-there\/","url_meta":{"origin":170114,"position":2},"title":"Hanging on in there.","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi all, I am still here. I am having a slow recovery from covid though and normal service will not be resumed for a while sadly. Diana xxx\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Diana Stone July 2022","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Diana-Stone-July-2022-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Diana-Stone-July-2022-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Diana-Stone-July-2022-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":174906,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/04\/15\/keep-calm-and-carry-on-perhaps\/","url_meta":{"origin":170114,"position":3},"title":"Keep calm and carry on perhaps?","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This week I seem to have ground to a halt.\u00a0 OK I have been practicing and preparing things so I haven't really stopped completely, but it feels like that...\u00a0 The creative energy well has run a little dry. I have been doing a lot of piano sight reading practice again\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/history\/whatever\/delta-ladies-whatever\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Diana-Stone Studio.APRIL 2021","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Studio-Diana-Stone-2021.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Studio-Diana-Stone-2021.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Studio-Diana-Stone-2021.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Studio-Diana-Stone-2021.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":143783,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/06\/23\/delta-ladies-v-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":170114,"position":4},"title":"Delta ladies V.2","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Lorraine Lucas and Diana Stone Danny Bryan on Kora Diana Stone on Violin","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FB_IMG_1561281300706.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FB_IMG_1561281300706.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FB_IMG_1561281300706.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FB_IMG_1561281300706.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136282,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/02\/01\/delta-ladies-at-walthamstow-folk-club\/","url_meta":{"origin":170114,"position":5},"title":"Delta Ladies at Walthamstow Folk Club","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not sure if this lot are any good, but might give them a try ;-)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Diana-Fling-fest-2016.jpg?fit=960%2C645&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Diana-Fling-fest-2016.jpg?fit=960%2C645&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Diana-Fling-fest-2016.jpg?fit=960%2C645&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Diana-Fling-fest-2016.jpg?fit=960%2C645&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170115,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170114\/revisions\/170115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}