{"id":175016,"date":"2021-07-04T18:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175016"},"modified":"2021-07-04T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T17:22:12","slug":"notes-from-somewhere-near-bedford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/04\/notes-from-somewhere-near-bedford\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes From Somewhere Near Bedford"},"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=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"175018\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/04\/notes-from-somewhere-near-bedford\/diana-red\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Diana-Red.jpg?fit=365%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"365,640\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Diana Stone Glass Cage Music\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Diana-Red.jpg?fit=365%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175018\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Diana-Red.jpg?resize=365%2C640\" alt=\"Diana Stone Glass Cage Music\" width=\"365\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Diana-Red.jpg?w=365&amp;ssl=1 365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Diana-Red.jpg?resize=171%2C300&amp;ssl=1 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Slowly but surely stuff is happening.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t jinx anything by saying what yet, but perhaps I am turning a corner creatively. Often ends and beginnings can look very similar at times and this&nbsp; definitely one or the other but I am&nbsp; still not entirely clear which.&nbsp; I am still feeling a bit rough mentally and physically though.&nbsp; Soon we will get a&nbsp; further announcement as to what the final stage of government covid&nbsp; restrictions or lack of same will be. masks seem likely to be made advisory, not mandatory in most situations and presumably restrictions on numbers and distancing will be similar.&nbsp;<br \/>\nSome are still suffering serious illness though of course.&nbsp; I am not sure how comfortable I will feel as it will take some adjustments.&nbsp; Emerging into the wild world is going to be a challenge after 14 months or so due in no small part to my own circumstances having changed so radically too. So I am starting from the ground up again. It may not lead anywhere buy perhaps this time around the journeys the point all though maybe it always was. When you arrive at the destination the only choice is to go home of go somewhere else.&nbsp; Well this time the destination has to be somewhere else travelling hopefully of course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hear is&nbsp; a new&nbsp; song. &#8220;<a class=\"soundTitle__title sc-link-dark sc-link-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/shouldent-ought-to-done-it\"><span class=\"\">Shouldent Ought To Done It<\/span><\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nWell you know&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1080916657&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>\u00b7<\/p>\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Shouldent Ought To Done It\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/shouldent-ought-to-done-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shouldent Ought To Done It<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly but surely stuff is happening.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t jinx anything by saying what yet, but perhaps I am turning a corner creatively. Often ends and beginnings can look very similar at times and this&nbsp; definitely one or the other but I am&nbsp; still not entirely clear which.&nbsp; I am still feeling a bit rough mentally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/04\/notes-from-somewhere-near-bedford\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Notes From Somewhere Near Bedford<\/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":[30,10,60,7,4,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies-diana_stones_songs","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-history","category-music","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JwQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":171069,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/11\/05\/november-fireworks-and-back-into-lockdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":175016,"position":0},"title":"November Fireworks and back into lockdown","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The start of the month and the colors of autumn\u00a0 are still rich on many of the trees, Its cold but with blue skies. 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