{"id":178977,"date":"2025-05-27T15:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178977"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:02:42","slug":"good-bad-and-slightly-manky-around-the-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/05\/27\/good-bad-and-slightly-manky-around-the-edges\/","title":{"rendered":"Good, bad and slightly Manky Around The Edges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be honest its rare unless I am unwell that don&#8217;t do stuff that&#8217;s a little bit creative\/constructive most days but my minds a mystery at times. <br><br>Music was my living for a fair while so it would be weird not to. But I always played and made demo recordings way back when and I sold Cds in the days before I was playing regularly in a live band. I never really expected to get on stages then one day I had a dream that I was playing gigs and a strong feeling something different might happen after a night out at a disco. Obviously the desire was implanted deep in my mind A few days latter Vicky called me and said would I like to be in Elephant Shelf which had existed for about a year before I joined in 2004 then everything changed&#8230;&#8230;<br><br><br><br>Did my thing with The Invisible Folk Club Band at Chesham Fringe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100093486994094&amp;__cft__[0]=AZXNEioo8FmD7Y__PKvD-iE0ommRdhHJWTCZ8cry6r_e5oQPBxcJwA0tJS2yrQfrTMiG31G---JehBPZnQd5o2T13jNjRPh78ewzXelbURVFG4mabAEal7R8zgNaAwIY5yrw9XSqTLTt5g-0Y6yzupQc8WZMX2ujrbLEPCeSty3b6g&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\">Jonathan Bickley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/invisiblefolk.com\/invisible-folk-club-band\">https:\/\/invisiblefolk.com\/invisible-folk-club-band<\/a> at the bank Holiday weekend. A great gig. \ud83d\ude42<br>I was way too hot having dressed to play outdoors and it turned out to be in doors due to te weather. I arrived 3 minutes late so joined in half way through the first number (curse of bank holiday M1 strikes again). It was good fun and I had a beer and chatted to lots of people.Only one set about 50 minutes. so finished about 2.40. Chatted with punters and friends for about an hour and had a drink home about 4.30. Annoyingly got a migraine just a few minutes before getting back home. fortunately it came on at junction 13 so I was able to get home through the psychedelia&#8230;Flashing lights and a headache. Very rare,for that to happen whilst driving. I might need some prescription sunglasses&#8217; but more lightly stress due to the bad journey going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"785\" data-attachment-id=\"178996\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/05\/27\/good-bad-and-slightly-manky-around-the-edges\/smoking-dee\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Smoking-Dee.png?fit=567%2C785&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"567,785\" 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=\"Smoking Dee\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Smoking-Dee.png?fit=567%2C785&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Smoking-Dee.png?resize=567%2C785&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Diana Stone watching the world go by in the music room\" class=\"wp-image-178996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Smoking-Dee.png?w=567&amp;ssl=1 567w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Smoking-Dee.png?resize=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, thats life. I really do like playing with Jons band. We are in Olney in June: St.Peter and St.Paul &#8211; Olney 7pm Saturday 28th June 700th anniversary Church Ale and Hog roast. <a href=\"https:\/\/invisiblefolk.com\/invisible-folk-club-band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/invisiblefolk.com\/invisible-folk-club-band<\/a> <br><br>Mostly I am good but a bit tired. I woke up at 06.00. I seem to have fallen into a 6.5 hour sleep pattern in the last few weeks. The relentless march of time I guess. <br><br>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to get all the SPADS and lobbyists working for private companies&#8217; CEOs out of politics&#8230;  Banish them all to be sheep farmers in the Faroe isles or similar.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here&#8217;s a new tune from me:<br><br>Step Up In Line<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<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\/2102386842&#038;color=%23503034&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><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 href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/step-up-in-line\" title=\"Step Up In Line\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Step Up In Line<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest its rare unless I am unwell that don&#8217;t do stuff that&#8217;s a little bit creative\/constructive most days but my minds a mystery at times. Music was my living for a fair while so it would be weird not to. But I always played and made demo recordings way back when and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/05\/27\/good-bad-and-slightly-manky-around-the-edges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good, bad and slightly Manky Around The Edges<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178989,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KyJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1197,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/01\/23\/small-worlds-and-village-pubs\/","url_meta":{"origin":178977,"position":0},"title":"Small worlds and village pubs","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This week has been a more of the same kind of week. 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