{"id":175008,"date":"2021-06-27T15:15:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175008"},"modified":"2021-06-28T16:39:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:39:41","slug":"a-june-2021-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/06\/27\/a-june-2021-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A June 2021 Round Up"},"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=\"\">Personally&nbsp; it&#8217;s been a very draining 6 months.&nbsp; I have been working solidly on music projects both solo and collaborative but of course nearly al remote ones. Other stuff I had hoped to do has ground to a complete halt now. Also mostly due to lockdown I gave not really been able to get anymore local connections made. Added to that I have had a lot of&nbsp; problems with long term <b>Musculoskeletal<\/b> (MSK) conditions which seems&nbsp; to have been much worse this year plus depression and anxiety. So fighting that tends to impede the creative flow quite a bit. At present I do feel its a real uphill struggle and it&#8217;s getting harder.&nbsp; I also like many wonder if we will actually get a full UK unlocking at the end of July. If we don&#8217;t that will be more than a little disappointing as&nbsp; &nbsp;the present regime does not yet permit the normal mix and mingle type activities (Folk clubs and Open mike and normal pub gigs) to name just a few.&nbsp; I feel as though my mental facilities are dwindling as well. Currently I am living on a diet of youtube videos and little else to keep me amused in my downtime.&nbsp; There are some very interesting blogging genre videos.&nbsp; One that I watch is this guy Hobo Shoestring&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheHoboShoestring\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheHoboShoestring<\/a> and if you like trains and the wide open spaces there is a lot of joy to be had in the videos he posts. he has been riding trains for 30 years and is what you might call a natural philosopher perhaps.Another one I watch is&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HubNut\/featured\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HubNut\/featured<\/a> which is about ordinary cars with a motoring journalist called Ian Seabrook. He drives and then fixes them eventually and more.&nbsp; It&#8217;s&nbsp; one of the things helping to keep me sane at present at least In a small way.&nbsp; &nbsp;There is a lot more I watch but I am not going to list everything here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This a very spontaneous song that popped into my head&nbsp; on Friday so I have recorded a quick &#8220;demo&#8221; version. Its&nbsp; an acoustic (Folk sort of) song&nbsp; with fiddle and a bit of tin whistle too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1075979371&amp;color=%234c5c84&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" 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\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u00b7<\/p>\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"I Dont Know Why I Really Should\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/i-dont-know-why-i-really-should\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Dont Know Why I Really Should<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">And in other news, a question. Who put that camera in Matt Hancock&#8217;s office I wonder? But the world will keep turning I guess.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Does any one remember that book &#8220;Feel the fear and do it anyway&#8221;? I might even have a faded and yellowing&nbsp; copy somewhere on my shelves. So following its prevailing mantra I did something recently to expand my comfort zone and help reduce my anxiety. I am not saying what it was but rather like the way that some people either like marmite or hate it, to my surprise it was really quite pleasant which I had not expected. Its not something I shall be doing again for a while I suspect but if appropriate when needed I am ready to put my new skill set and hopefully win friends and influence people, I havent got that book though.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I notice a lot of people are now back out gigging again which is good news. I would love to be out and joining&nbsp; them and I hope the opportunity comes again.&nbsp; However the recruiting drive has not been&nbsp; successful so far despite trying different several different approaches sadly. It&#8217;s hard not to get disheartened frankly.&nbsp; I will keep trying though it&#8217;s beginning to feel like an exercise in total futility. It feels almost like I am on some sort of blacklist?&nbsp; It really&nbsp; makes me&nbsp; wonder at times.&nbsp; Answers on a post card please \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; &nbsp;I hope that does not seem too negative as its not intended to be but if I am doing something wrong I would love to know what it is?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\">&nbsp;\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nosweatshakespeare.com\/quotes\/famous-shakespeare-quotes\/the-lady-doth-protest-too-much\/\">The lady doth protest too much, methinks<\/a>\u2018<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\"><em>(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally&nbsp; it&#8217;s been a very draining 6 months.&nbsp; I have been working solidly on music projects both solo and collaborative but of course nearly al remote ones. Other stuff I had hoped to do has ground to a complete halt now. Also mostly due to lockdown I gave not really been able to get anymore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/06\/27\/a-june-2021-round-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A June 2021 Round Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174908,"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":[20,10,60,4,3,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Studio-Diana-Stone-2021.jpg?fit=1024%2C499&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JwI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":941,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/12\/06\/elephant-shelf-back-at-the-music-palace-supporting-chris-farlowe\/","url_meta":{"origin":175008,"position":0},"title":"Elephant Shelf back at the Music Palace supporting Chris Farlowe","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an interesting week for both the Shelf & the Deltas. 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Sometimes it's hard just keeping on going however\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":179896,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/03\/07\/march-onwards\/","url_meta":{"origin":175008,"position":2},"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":175108,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/10\/05\/mostly-waiting-for-something\/","url_meta":{"origin":175008,"position":3},"title":"Mostly waiting for something","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"So what have I been up to? Music and music and music mostly. Including a vaguely Rick Wakeman style thing that actually worked rather better than I though it would. Here it is then for your delectation and delight.\u00a0 Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Hommage A La Prog Apart from that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/delta-ladies-diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":179904,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/03\/15\/whatever\/","url_meta":{"origin":175008,"position":4},"title":"Whatever","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Well who knows. First care home St Paddy's gig .It went fairly well and I have a run of them this week. A Stick thin old lady in chair with a full size baby doll in her arms she and could hear the music but she was somewhere back in\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\/At-the-Woodbine-Inn.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/At-the-Woodbine-Inn.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/At-the-Woodbine-Inn.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/At-the-Woodbine-Inn.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175310,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/04\/20\/the-quickening\/","url_meta":{"origin":175008,"position":5},"title":"The Quickening","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Its all getting rather\u00a0 busy on the music front suddenly.\u00a0 Some interesting new opportunity's are presenting themselves.\u00a0 From famine to feast this year\u00a0 seems to be the case, or is it simply a matter of seek and ye shall find maybe?\u00a0 \u00a0Try not blow it will be my motto though\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":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175008","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=175008"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175014,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175008\/revisions\/175014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}