{"id":176934,"date":"2024-03-29T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176934"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:29:00","slug":"almost-easter-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/29\/almost-easter-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Easter Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background\">Thats come around quickly.  Today I was recording with<mark style=\"background-color:#fff\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/invisiblefolk.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jonbickley.com\/invisible-folk-club-band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jon Bickley and the Invisible Folk Club <\/a><\/mark>Band in Whitwell near Luton. It&#8217;s a surprisingly scenic area, much to my surprise.  You learn something new everyday.  Anyway I am back at  home thinking. Now that is a dangerous game.<br>I got home switched the synth on and found some weirdness so I was off and  recording a tune. Some unpopular music I think. Violins to be added to taste later.<br>And here is my new tune<br><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1786824466&amp;color=%23bd6f3c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" 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;\"><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=\"Entrophy No2\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/entrophy-no2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entrophy No<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-off-white-background-color has-background\"><br><br>Ways to deal with I depression? <br><br>Local walking group? Going for a walk at 09.00 when you can barely stand up due to the spine problems knocks that on the head, though bizarrely 3 hours later I am usually fine. I was very well suited to my previous musical life in terms of body clock and so forth. I only managed to get by in the Civil Service as I could start the day at 10.00 am. <br><br>Volunteer?<br> <br>The labour party is ideologically going to a place that is not for me (far too much tory lite stuff now) . I will vote for them but that is as far as it goes. The latest Labour leaflets are causing a stir as they are plastered in union jacks and people don&#8217;t want to distribute them in ethnic minority areas.<br><br> There are activities of all sorts going on. I just don&#8217;t want to do them alone. As you might well understand making new (platonic as I am emotionally vulnerable) friends as an ageing slightly sweary transgender person is not the easiest thing at times. I am not reclusive, but I do find large groups of people difficult as I am introverted to an extent other than when performing really. Time may of course make all this irrelevant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thats come around quickly. Today I was recording with Jon Bickley and the Invisible Folk Club Band in Whitwell near Luton. It&#8217;s a surprisingly scenic area, much to my surprise. You learn something new everyday. Anyway I am back at home thinking. Now that is a dangerous game.I got home switched the synth on and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/29\/almost-easter-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almost Easter Again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176973,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,10,60,4,3,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176934","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\/2024\/03\/at-te-littl-egreen-again.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-K1M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":166233,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/08\/06\/august-2020-week-1-a-new-tune\/","url_meta":{"origin":176934,"position":0},"title":"August 2020 week 1 A new Tune","author":"diana Stone","date":"August 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Well as ever I started recording something which was supposed to be a song but turned into an instrumental. its weird how that happens right? 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