{"id":177421,"date":"2024-06-06T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177421"},"modified":"2024-06-06T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:15:01","slug":"well-i-did-try-honestly-i-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/06\/well-i-did-try-honestly-i-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Well I did Try Honestly I Did"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">Well, from the live music side of things I seem to be a little stuck. I have a few gigs with various people, but sadly nothing regular enough and it&#8217;s quite depressing to be honest. I can&#8217;t see it getting any better really either. There is just not enough going on. I am going to make another effort to try and see if I can get something local going though to bulk it out a bit. Last best hope I guess. So folks keep your fingers crossed as I am running out of steam now pretty much, and the less I do the harder it seems to get. Conversely my limitations due to health at times also frustrate me so getting a balance is hard.<br><br>New tune below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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\/1838430315&amp;color=%23382ba4&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 class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">Today in another place I experienced a bit of anger from a turkey voting for christmas. It happens a lot. These people are best left alone it seems. Well I l always think deaths bony fingers resting on my shoulder and of course it is, but who knows when that hand will lift and lightly tap to get my attention. Time does have a habit of running out on us.  At the time of writing this it is the 80th anniversary of D-day. Lots of pomp and all that.  We are now in much less optimistic times again and war is increased and stability of the world at risk again. <br>Perhaps we did forget?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">What puzzles me is why so many of my age demographic (I am 67 though I wish I was younger <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude09\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t57\/1\/16\/1f609.png\"> ) constantly repost fake information? You would think if they were capable of using Facebook, they would also be capable of fact checking instead of just reposting fake stuff because it happens to fit their personal prejudices&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">I am not going to repeat what I just read on another thread which was just another trolling s*** stirring comment about asylum seekers. It saddens me because either the post was made out of complete ignorance or frankly some people are just basically neo fascists in waiting. Either way they seem allergic to facts. Ho Hum&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-grid columns-2 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\/last-cigarette'>Last Cigarette<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-18T18:13:06+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">September 18, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Last Cigarette by Diana Stone<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/what-you-got'>What You Got<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-13T19:19:17+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">September 13, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">What You Got by Diana Stone<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/get-a-little-friendlier-one'>Get A Little Friendlier One Day<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-07T16:53:49+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">September 7, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A song about not wanting to make the first move and hoping that special somebody will know what you are thinking \u2665<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/nothing-to-see-here-nothings'>Nothing To See Here Nothings Changed<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-30T14:43:14+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 30, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A bit of folky existential dread<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/my-dream-cant-change-it'>My Dream Cant Change It<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-23T17:49:07+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 23, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">My Dream Cant Change It by Diana Stone<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/try-it-out-wheres-your-sense'>Try it out, Wheres your Sense of adventure<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-14T19:33:45+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 14, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A world trance dance crossover with some surprises along the way<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/parlour-music-no1'>Parlour Music no1<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-07T18:11:33+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 7, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A gentle 1900s style light Classical feel piece of music for solo piano<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/come-the-rain-radio-edit'>Come The Rain<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-01T18:07:27+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">August 1, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">World music vibe, wide open spaces<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/just-be-nice'>Just Be Nice<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-07-24T13:31:50+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">July 24, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">fast sightly punky thrashy shouty song<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/when-will-we-come-here-again'>When Will We Come Here Again<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-07-14T21:10:12+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">July 14, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A trance beat synth tune with a mellow piano vibe<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/heat-haze-for-piano-bb-minor'>Heat Haze for Piano Bb Minor<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-07-10T17:40:47+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">July 10, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Impressionistic short piano work in Bb minor<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/its-so-very-very-warm'>Its So Very Very Warm<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-07-03T20:56:54+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">July 3, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A song about what to do in warm weather with your very special friend<\/div><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, from the live music side of things I seem to be a little stuck. I have a few gigs with various people, but sadly nothing regular enough and it&#8217;s quite depressing to be honest. I can&#8217;t see it getting any better really either. There is just not enough going on. I am going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/06\/well-i-did-try-honestly-i-did\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well I did Try Honestly I Did<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177461,"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":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":[20,10,60,3,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-musings","category-other","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-K9D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153126,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/12\/09\/a-round-up-of-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":177421,"position":0},"title":"A round-up of 2019","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"To say it has been a difficult year is an understatement. On a personal level, I have been quite isolated due to many reasons that may not be apparent to others understandably. I have undertaken to try and keep the Delta Ladies going but in its present form that's pretty\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":177979,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/29\/today-its-not-raining\/","url_meta":{"origin":177421,"position":1},"title":"Today It&#8217;s not raining","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hurrah. That is all. A conversation about current popular music took off on Facebook about it's merits or lack of same. Much of the music I listen too and still love is 50 years or more old. (prog, jazz classical and folk in my case). A friend of mine who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Cute-BW-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Cute-BW-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Cute-BW-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Cute-BW-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Cute-BW-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Cute-BW-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":135575,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/01\/25\/been-there-done-that-january-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":177421,"position":2},"title":"Been there, done that January 2019","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to try and avoid celebrating my Birthday because 62 is just way too old. Although obviously better than the alternative. Today I thought for a change I would try dictating directly into the blog because I have the tech and it sort of works. My sister came down\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/neptune.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/neptune.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/neptune.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/neptune.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":174819,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/01\/23\/can-we-ever-say-more-than-we-did-our-best\/","url_meta":{"origin":177421,"position":3},"title":"Can we ever say more than we did our best?","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Can we ever say more than we did our best?\u00a0 I am not sure we can really. I am mired in gloom today and not really sure why. The sun was out on a crisp winters day.\u00a0 I took a brief trip to the shop to collect from the amazon\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":176253,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/12\/17\/whats-going-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":177421,"position":4},"title":"What&#8217;s Going On?","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"In the 70s apart from my mates, nobody would have heard my music or songs except perhaps one or two in the local pub at best on on cassettes or late CDs passed around. Now in the last since about 2010 somewhere north of 150,000 plays have taken place on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-15-103735.png?fit=1200%2C535&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-15-103735.png?fit=1200%2C535&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-15-103735.png?fit=1200%2C535&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-15-103735.png?fit=1200%2C535&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-15-103735.png?fit=1200%2C535&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":179904,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/03\/15\/whatever\/","url_meta":{"origin":177421,"position":5},"title":"Whatever","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Well who knows. First care home St Paddy's gig .It went fairly well and I have a run of them this week. A Stick thin old lady in chair with a full size baby doll in her arms she and could hear the music but she was somewhere back in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/At-the-Woodbine-Inn.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/At-the-Woodbine-Inn.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/At-the-Woodbine-Inn.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/At-the-Woodbine-Inn.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tavistock.jpg?fit=604%2C436&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177421"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177466,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177421\/revisions\/177466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}