{"id":178415,"date":"2024-12-19T20:54:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178415"},"modified":"2024-12-19T20:54:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:54:25","slug":"jingly-nerves-jingle-all-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/19\/jingly-nerves-jingle-all-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Jingly Nerves, Jingle All The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey it&#8217;s Christmas jumpy time. Jingle Bells or what!<br><br>A pleasant afternoon playing two Christmas shows at Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital and at the Danesbury Neurological Center. On the way there though I bagged a Pigeon on the A1. Car 1 Pidgeon 0. What is wrong with these self sacrificing suicidal avions? I seem to be the f**king vegetarian reaper!!! Hospital&#8217;s and institutions are not my normal habitat tis true (they have slightly bad associations). Endless trips to the Child Guidance Clinic. X rays for the TB and so forth&#8230; Some of the punters were listening and tapping their feet.  We did 2 one hour shows one in the hospital day room and one in the care home day room. Went Ok, mostly women there. Don&#8217;t think I will be making a career of it. We are doing a summer show there as the trio though. Very positive feedback from staff and punters. A few aches and pains this am after yesterday&#8217;s gig, it was good but needed a lot of concentration so although I played OK I was slightly less relaxed than normal. maybe a bit of additional muscle tension?  A lot of material to learn in a short time might have made it a bit more tiring. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey it&#8217;s Christmas jumpy time. Jingle Bells or what! A pleasant afternoon playing two Christmas shows at Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital and at the Danesbury Neurological Center. On the way there though I bagged a Pigeon on the A1. Car 1 Pidgeon 0. What is wrong with these self sacrificing suicidal avions? I seem to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/19\/jingly-nerves-jingle-all-the-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jingly Nerves, Jingle All The Way<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178435,"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-178415","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\/12\/Ben-fiddle-2.jpg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KpF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38876,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/04\/16\/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-revised-version\/","url_meta":{"origin":178415,"position":0},"title":"Be careful what you wish for revised version.","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Indeed. Today I have been aching a bit. That \u00a0happens as time passes. \u00a0Played a gig a venerable old school south London boozer last night. 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