{"id":179383,"date":"2025-10-16T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179383"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:28:40","slug":"normal-service-will-be-resumed-shortly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/10\/16\/normal-service-will-be-resumed-shortly\/","title":{"rendered":"Normal Service Will Be Resumed Shortly"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2189229803&#038;color=%23400e0e&#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\/come-on-baby-feel-your-way\" title=\"Come On Baby Feel Your Way\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Come On Baby Feel Your Way<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I always tried to do no harm. But when I am feeling good it shows somehow and my light comes on and people are drawn to me&#8230; <br>Funny as I am totally a gloom and doom merchant, living a life day to day always expecting deaths boney finger on my shoulder.<br><br>The most recent figures on songs of mine played on the that I can verify on Internet streams in the last 10 years is (actually the majority of that  is in the last 5\/8 years) 289,215 plays as of date of writing this.  It really started to take off during lockdown it seems. Its trending upwards. That doesn&#8217;t include Delta Ladies tracks as I can&#8217;t get the metrics for those. So it&#8217;s not all just blasting into the void unheard. I wonder if can get to a million streams if I am spared.<br><br>Factually yes its pretty good going and not to be sneezed at its true. On a bad day looking at  it I don&#8217;t feel quite so useless for a while. But cliche or no I do feel &#8220;not enough&#8221; or an underachiever often enough. I am getting a lot of my usual pains again in the morning. Its fairly typical with my  flavour of ankylosing spondylitis. Its not just a back ache as related pains radiate to very odd parts of the body. So yesterday I started proper exercises again. Its lightly it will make me hurt a bit more for a while at first. A lot of the reason the pain travels seems to be tight fascia as movement makes it go \ud83d\udeb6\u200d\u2640\ufe0f But keeping active once its late Autumn to Winter takes a little effort. My gigs were almost like doing physio on one level in the old days. No wonder things have got worse. I suspect its not just aging though that&#8217;s a big deal. It&#8217;s 6 years since I have been working full on gigwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"179404\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/10\/16\/normal-service-will-be-resumed-shortly\/blonde-dee-tea\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blonde-Dee-Tea--rotated.jpg?fit=1252%2C2225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1252,2225\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G950F&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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Blonde Dee Tea\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blonde-Dee-Tea--rotated.jpg?fit=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blonde-Dee-Tea--576x1024.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blonde-Dee-Tea--rotated.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blonde-Dee-Tea--rotated.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blonde-Dee-Tea--rotated.jpg?resize=768%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blonde-Dee-Tea--rotated.jpg?resize=864%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blonde-Dee-Tea--rotated.jpg?resize=1152%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blonde-Dee-Tea--rotated.jpg?w=1252&amp;ssl=1 1252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend asked recently &#8220;How do you keep cucumbers from going horrible in the fridge?&#8221; Sadly this is beyond my paygrade. I do however send hopes and prayers.<br><br>In other news:<br><br><br><strong>After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done. S The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has taken down its controversial interim guidance, which was rushed out in April, days after the Supreme Court\u2019s decision on the meaning of \u201csex\u201d under the Equality Act 2010. The guidance, which faces an ongoing legal challenge from Good Law Project, told employers and service providers that they must exclude trans people from accessing gendered spaces and services, such as toilets. A number of employers and service providers have already implemented this interim guidance, with a devastating impact on trans people.<\/strong> <br><br><strong>These actions may be against the law. <\/strong><br><br>Help us challenge the Supreme Court\u2019s judgment on trans rights Chip in After six months of delay, the EHRC has now withdrawn its interim guidance, telling employers and service providers that, until a new code of practice is in place, they must take specialist legal advice that reflects their particular situation. Good Law Project is supporting a number of trans and intersex individuals who have been affected by the interim guidance, including three claimants in our case against the EHRC, which will be heard in November. For Good Law Project\u2019s executive director, Jo Maugham, the commission\u2019s decision to remove the interim guidance comes far too late. \u201cI\u2019ve spent six months talking to trans people who are afraid to go out because of the climate of fear the EHRC\u2019s interim guidance created,\u201d Maugham said. \u201cSome are suicidal \u2013 and I am aware of people who have sought to take their own lives. The EHRC has finally taken it down \u2013 and my question to them is: if the High Court finds the guidance unlawful, will you apologise to those whose lives you have so profoundly harmed?\u201d According to Good Law Project trans rights lead, Jess O\u2019Thomson, the guidance hasn\u2019t only had a \u201cdevastating impact on trans people\u2019s lives\u201d, but may also have encouraged organisations to act unlawfully. \u201cNow the guidance has been withdrawn,\u201d O\u2019Thomson said, \u201cso should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.\u201d Good Law Project\u2019s challenge to the interim guidance will begin at the High Court on 12 November 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/goodlawproject.org\/ehrc-withdraws-interim-guidance-encouraging-trans-exclusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/goodlawproject.org\/ehrc-withdraws-interim-guidance-encouraging-trans-exclusion\/<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodlawproject.org\/ehrc-withdraws-interim-guidance-encouraging-trans-exclusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodlawproject.org\/ehrc-withdraws-interim-guidance-encouraging-trans-exclusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">goodlawproject.org<\/a><br><br>I would hope for a victory for common sense and reasonableness but I am not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Come On Baby Feel Your Way I always tried to do no harm. But when I am feeling good it shows somehow and my light comes on and people are drawn to me&#8230; Funny as I am totally a gloom and doom merchant, living a life day to day always expecting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/10\/16\/normal-service-will-be-resumed-shortly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Normal Service Will Be Resumed Shortly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179407,"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-179383","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\/2025\/10\/stagedisdant.png?fit=768%2C1344&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KFh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179383","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=179383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179408,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179383\/revisions\/179408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}