{"id":176226,"date":"2023-12-08T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T21:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176226"},"modified":"2023-12-08T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T21:34:31","slug":"a-quiet-week-in-great-denham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/12\/08\/a-quiet-week-in-great-denham\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quiet Week In Great Denham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have had a rather low key week and been at home for most of it. Working on music and related activity&#8217;s. My moods been Ok despite the damp weather triggering my arthritis. <br>I started very gently getting back in to my exercise routine this morning as though I am active I have missed it for a couple of weeks, mostly due to loosing the motivation as much as anything else. It does help physically and psychologically I feel. At this time of year I think it is an essential really. But motivation is lacking. <br><br>But I do have a Christmas tree, although a very small one.  We will have no reckless excess in this house. <br><br>In a moment of madness I brought a new keyboard I last brought one in about 2013 so I guess it is excusable really.  Nothing fancy but a useful additional to my arsenal both for recording and live performances.  My new year resolution ought to be to get out and do the odd live solo live performance in the Bedford area occasionally. I am getting out and doing a bit of stuff with the other acts  though of course.  If I am spared (perhaps) as a reclusive local friend often says.<br>I have fallen in to a bit of a routine pattern recently. Most days I start writing a blog entry which seems to help keep my thoughts in order, or at least gets them out of my head where they tend to cause severe congestion in the synaptic pathways.  Hopefully also helping me not to repeat the mistakes of personal history maybe?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1685686449&amp;color=%23e49864&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking  back at what could I have done differently in life, well there are loads of things with the benefit of hindsight of course, but perhaps it would not have been so much fun.  But its all a roll of the dice when you look at , and often not too many rational measured decisions.  Often there seemed to be no time to think then.  Now there is too much time it seems.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-dates has-authors has-excerpts wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/marching-in-lines'>Marching In Lines<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-30T13:40:25+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 30, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A protest song sort of.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/disappointments-and'>Disappointments and Distractions<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-23T20:27:58+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 23, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Slightly world vibes alt pop-rock song with prog overtones<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/interference-patterns'>Interference Patterns<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-15T14:48:59+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 15, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Violin chil-out vibe with Synths<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/false-dawns-illusion'>False Dawns Illusion<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-07T19:48:06+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 7, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Gentle solo piano piece<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/everything-scares-me-so'>Everything Scares Me So<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-02T16:44:02+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 2, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A song about feeling scared like so many of us are right now.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/not-home-yet'>Not Home Yet<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-02-27T14:00:50+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">February 27, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Nostalgic wistful theme<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/big-sticking-plaster'>Big Sticking Plaster<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-02-21T19:13:57+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">February 21, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">The grass is always greener<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/and-i-always-loved-you'>And I Always Loved You<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-02-15T22:07:55+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">February 15, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A love song<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/maybe-some-slilver-maybe-some'>Maybe Some Silver Maybe Some Gold<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-02-08T18:07:56+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">February 8, 2026<\/time> <span 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class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Slow rock ballad<\/div><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a rather low key week and been at home for most of it. Working on music and related activity&#8217;s. My moods been Ok despite the damp weather triggering my arthritis. I started very gently getting back in to my exercise routine this morning as though I am active I have missed it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/12\/08\/a-quiet-week-in-great-denham\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Quiet Week In Great Denham<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131951,"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":[20,10,60,7,3,35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-history","category-musings","category-piano","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/13879474653_e3c08575b8_k.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JQm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":173612,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/12\/22\/christmas-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":176226,"position":0},"title":"Christmas 2020","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Well so far its mostly shit really and likely to get worse I suspect. 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