{"id":175484,"date":"2022-09-18T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175484"},"modified":"2022-09-18T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T19:51:16","slug":"september-the-middle-bit-qe2-and-afterwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/09\/18\/september-the-middle-bit-qe2-and-afterwards\/","title":{"rendered":"September The Middle Bit QE2 and afterwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s I have been busy, with 2 rehearsals, sorting and tidying stuff up and so forth so it&#8217;s gone quite quickly. since QE2 set sale unexpectedly this week. It&#8217;s a very strange atmosphere though.&nbsp; This hiatus and stilling of&nbsp; the world. Shortly my car goes in for an MOT and service. Its old now at 16 years so it&#8217;s never a done done deal as to how things will work out or not.&nbsp; Its done a lot of work for me over the years&nbsp; so I have had my monies worth out of it for sure. So fingers, legs&#8217; and toes crossed it is. If my car is not viable it will be a bit of a stretch to replace it.&nbsp; I went to pick up some stuff at a store&nbsp; which is at the interchange retail park. Weird, very aggressive driving in the car park as people were fighting over spaces. I never go to those places on a weekend normally, and now I remember why. I&nbsp; have had one of those strange mental health days at the time of writing this. A bit of a wobble. I am not sure why, perhaps due to the very strange atmosphere at present but probably just because. This year has for me been for me personally a lot of false starts, plus a very unpleasant bout of Covid which hit just when I was finally getting back on form again. So today I am a bit fragile. Hopefully it will pass ere the dawn? Today I feel my age. It&#8217;s about 16C\/60F so way cooler than this time last year.&nbsp; Also I am no less arthritic either. That of course is no surprise \ud83d\ude32&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe turn of the season also has an effect on the old bones too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1152709786&amp;color=%23d0346c&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=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Thank You For Being\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/thank-you-for-being\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thank You For Being<\/a><\/p>\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=\"\">I have been churning out recordings (Mine, plus the Delta Ladies and Jon Bickleys and some others stuff) since I got here in 2018 without really trying to rationalise the Music Room\/Studio. So for a week or so I am making the effort to try and improve the environment and working space. It&#8217;s got a tad chaotic. I have a lot of redundant kit too which I should really start reducing. I did find a couple of gems among unused bits and bobs though. An original Vox phase pedal which sounds ace being one unexpected find. My life is very different now though. I used to do up to 150 gigs a year, but that has long gone now sadly. If only I could still summon that level of energy though is unlikely I think. Fun whilst it lasted though.&nbsp; But what next. Well a few things are simmering on the stove, but far from cooked yet. Or perhaps a more accurate metaphor would be that there are some promising shoots and budding, but some of the fruit undoubtedly will wither on the vine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At the time of writing its QE2 state funeral tomorrow. Whatever one&#8217;s views on the British Monarchy it&#8217;s quite an event. The Queen is dead. Long live the KIng.<\/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;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s I have been busy, with 2 rehearsals, sorting and tidying stuff up and so forth so it&#8217;s gone quite quickly. since QE2 set sale unexpectedly this week. It&#8217;s a very strange atmosphere though.&nbsp; This hiatus and stilling of&nbsp; the world. Shortly my car goes in for an MOT and service. Its old now at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/09\/18\/september-the-middle-bit-qe2-and-afterwards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">September The Middle Bit QE2 and afterwards<\/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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JEo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179365,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/10\/05\/golden-october-or-something\/","url_meta":{"origin":175484,"position":0},"title":"Golden October or something","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 5, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Well against all the laws of probability my car passed the MOT test. 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