{"id":177943,"date":"2024-09-22T21:06:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177943"},"modified":"2024-09-22T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T20:06:48","slug":"autumnal-thoughts-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/22\/autumnal-thoughts-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumnal Thoughts Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is thinking overrated? Possibly. It&#8217;s been a funny week. My car got through the MOT with a spot of wielding this time. Not cheap but much cheaper than replacing it. Other stuff is ticking along though I have not felt 100%. It&#8217;s not covid as I checked that. Keeping up with exercises has slipped a bit too. I really need to get back on the exercise bike more again starting now and in fact today I have. The band is getting the odd gig in here and there which is nice. We do need more photos and video to help promote it it though. <br><br>I have switched to radio news rather than television with its succession of grim war footage as that&#8217;s a bit draining. At least I can know whats going on without having to see too much of it that way. <br><br>Last week included making soup, Butternut squash and garlic and onions and potato and things in the first outing for the recently acquired slow cooker and a visit from my sister plus a band rehearsal which went well. <br><br>This is my most recent musical offering:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1918729841&amp;color=%238c8cc8&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=\"Who Are You Now\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/who-are-you-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who Are You Now<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Once upon a time in London on a boat in September 2004 (47 years old ) \ud83d\ude42 It was cold. And there was a horrible disco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"666\" data-attachment-id=\"177954\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/22\/autumnal-thoughts-continued\/mother_of_parliament1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mother_of_parliament1.jpg?fit=378%2C666&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"378,666\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mother_of_parliament1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mother_of_parliament1.jpg?fit=378%2C666&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mother_of_parliament1.jpg?resize=378%2C666&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mother_of_parliament1.jpg?w=378&amp;ssl=1 378w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mother_of_parliament1.jpg?resize=170%2C300&amp;ssl=1 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am recording a rather mournful sounding violin instrumental, not too sure about it to be honest. Spent a lot of time recording the violin part, so I will put it on hold for a while before mixing. I might change some of the arrangement behind it. I might just bin it. Who knows?<br>As it turned out I did finish it after all and will point it at the unsuspecting world anyway. They have only themselves to blame.<br><br>At present we are having huge amounts of rain and storms which are likely to last for a day or so more and are causing disruption. The rain is quite loud too. A lot of water is falling but we have some seriously heavyweight drainage here, due to being on a flood plain with a water meadow as well as the Great Ouse  surrounding us on 3 sides. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is thinking overrated? Possibly. It&#8217;s been a funny week. My car got through the MOT with a spot of wielding this time. Not cheap but much cheaper than replacing it. Other stuff is ticking along though I have not felt 100%. It&#8217;s not covid as I checked that. Keeping up with exercises has slipped a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/22\/autumnal-thoughts-continued\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autumnal Thoughts Continued<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177948,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DSCF0004.jpg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Ki3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":173612,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/12\/22\/christmas-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":177943,"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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