{"id":179480,"date":"2025-11-17T22:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179480"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:29:59","slug":"still-here-in-the-rain-with-sunny-intervals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/11\/17\/still-here-in-the-rain-with-sunny-intervals\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Here In The Rain, With Sunny Intervals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have had a biblical amount of rain in the past few days. Its easing off now and we are getting to more normal weather for the inset of winter proper. My mood has been up and down and all over the place. So business as usual mostly. And my various music projects are proceeding as expected. I hit a bit of a low last week all of a sudden, but that seems to have lifted a bit. Finances are a little bit off too as everything has just got so much more expensive, so that is a little bit of a nuisance too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christal Robot Dream. An instrumental <\/strong><\/p>\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\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2204137683&#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\/christal-robot-dream\" title=\"Christal Robot Dream\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Christal Robot Dream<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BBC still working for the 1%?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC has always been the official government broadcasting service since it started with Lord Reith in 1922. if we ever get nuked it will be a calm voice on the BBC we will here before kissing our collective arses good bye. it&#8217;s supposed to be unbiased but it&#8217;s news reporting has always loosely followed at some level the political leanings of the incumbent government. Channel 4 news seems less biased subjectively and even Sky news in some respects.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br>But make no mistake at a certain level it is not independent editorially.&nbsp; If this was not the case we would likely have had proper representation of transgender people in the discussions about the Equality Commissions &#8216;Guidance&#8217;. Extraordinary that we do not have even one trans MP. Britain is a still a backward reactionary country in many respects run by a small number of very rich people who have undue influence of many politicians. I do not see that as being likely to change any time soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong><br><br>Yep, time is whizzing by at an alarming rate at present. I am trying to keep myself from pulling down the shutters and hiding away.  I am beginning to feel a bit more chipper again now. Again no rhyme or reason. <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"179505\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/11\/17\/still-here-in-the-rain-with-sunny-intervals\/redstairs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-rotated.jpg?fit=1161%2C2381&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1161,2381\" 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=\"RedStairs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-rotated.jpg?fit=146%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-rotated.jpg?fit=499%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-499x1024.jpg?resize=499%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-rotated.jpg?resize=499%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 499w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-rotated.jpg?resize=146%2C300&amp;ssl=1 146w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-rotated.jpg?resize=768%2C1575&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-rotated.jpg?resize=749%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 749w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-rotated.jpg?resize=999%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RedStairs-rotated.jpg?w=1161&amp;ssl=1 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a biblical amount of rain in the past few days. Its easing off now and we are getting to more normal weather for the inset of winter proper. My mood has been up and down and all over the place. So business as usual mostly. And my various music projects are proceeding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/11\/17\/still-here-in-the-rain-with-sunny-intervals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still Here In The Rain, With Sunny Intervals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179490,"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-179480","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\/11\/20251102_151643-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1182&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KGQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175245,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/02\/23\/rain-and-more-rain-mostly\/","url_meta":{"origin":179480,"position":0},"title":"Rain And More Rain Mostly","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a bit damp again and my bones ache. 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