{"id":175775,"date":"2023-05-05T20:56:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175775"},"modified":"2023-05-05T20:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:56:56","slug":"still-dreaming-because-we-must","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/05\/05\/still-dreaming-because-we-must\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Dreaming because We Must"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, Still dreaming. It&#8217;s been a funny week with a lot of miscommunication and confusion. Hopefully this will pass. I have been recording in my studio or expanded broom cupboard<br>as usual, but the muse is tricky and hard to find. I have half finished stuff in  process of course as ever. <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"943\" data-attachment-id=\"175776\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/05\/05\/still-dreaming-because-we-must\/52859195725_4732561143_o\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o.jpg?fit=1592%2C2484&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1592,2484\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G950F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1682768415&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.95&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"52859195725_4732561143_o\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o.jpg?fit=604%2C943&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o-656x1024.jpg?resize=604%2C943&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Diana Stone sitting at the Piano.\" class=\"wp-image-175776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o.jpg?resize=656%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 656w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o.jpg?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o.jpg?resize=768%2C1198&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o.jpg?resize=984%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 984w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o.jpg?resize=1313%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1313w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o.jpg?w=1592&amp;ssl=1 1592w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52859195725_4732561143_o.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well never mind, Charlie gets to wear a big shiny hat tomorrow which is a cause of excitement for some. Me, not so much. I shall watch as its a hysterical event, (sorry I meant historical I think ) though with a few republican protests it might make a more varied TV show.  Can&#8217;t wait to see  them baton charging middle age middle class republican academics and pensioners, bring back the SPG, that&#8217;s what I say. Merry England where sculls crack under the boot. &#8220;What larks eh Pip&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The King would find the idea of people paying homage to him during his Coronation &#8220;abhorrent&#8221;, the broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby believes.<\/strong><br><br>&#8220;During the service, the Archbishop of Canterbury will ask &#8220;all who so desire, in the Abbey, and elsewhere, [to] say together: I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>For the first time, the public are being given an active role in the ceremony as they are invited to swear allegiance to the King. I would totally go for being revered, and I think I could be quite good at monarching or whatever its called. Dimbleby, a close friend of the King, told BBC R4&#8217;s Today programme he has &#8220;never wanted to be revered&#8221;. Well suit yourself mate but I think a spot of forelock tugging never did any harm or did it? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1140764644&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\n\n\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;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Relentless\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/relentless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Relentless<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news. Just say no.  You know you want to. I am happy with Bedford in the main and its workable for music stuff I have going on. Plus I quite like the countryside hereabouts and it&#8217;s all on hand. More space would be nice of course but really the only disadvantage here is not being able to get a &#8220;real&#8221; piano in the place. that reminds me I must make enquires as to were to get use of a decent piano for videos and stuff. I put my most recent live piano video on TikTok and since last night its clocked up 1777 plays. Piano videos seem very popular. I wish there was a way to exploit this more usefully. So far I have not come up with anything nearer than London where I could get my hands on a &#8220;real&#8221; Piano. It is mostly peaceful here and I get to do what I want when I want. That&#8217;s something I have never had before. On my French trips I could go for a stroll get a bit of sun and not meet a soul. Thats was a huge contrast to living in a tiny flat in a very busy part of central London. Here its often very quiet and at first it was great but sometimes its a bit weird. I am not a natural hermit. Its shame there is not a pub that is a safe walk away from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently at  Biggleswade M&amp;S. A women stopped me on the escalator &#8220;Della Ladies, remember me from the Red Lion&#8221;  Can&#8217;t get away from it but I do miss that band as much fun was had over the 17 years of various incarnations of the band.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Still dreaming. It&#8217;s been a funny week with a lot of miscommunication and confusion. Hopefully this will pass. I have been recording in my studio or expanded broom cupboardas usual, but the muse is tricky and hard to find. I have half finished stuff in process of course as ever. Well never mind, Charlie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/05\/05\/still-dreaming-because-we-must\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still Dreaming because We Must<\/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":[29,10,60,4,3,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies-whatever","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-piano-works","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JJ5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178773,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/03\/12\/ouch-diy-is-dangerous\/","url_meta":{"origin":175775,"position":0},"title":"Ouch DIY is Dangerous","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I had an accident doing some DIY today. 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