{"id":180303,"date":"2026-07-11T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=180303"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:00:28","slug":"summer-yes-there-is-more-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/07\/11\/summer-yes-there-is-more-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer, Yes there is more of it."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another very warm week with various trials and tribulations. And why do people think its Ok to throw litter on our doorstep? Its kids mostly but just why?  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2352692999&#038;color=%23ff5500&#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\/its-so-very-very-warm\" title=\"Its So Very Very Warm\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Its So Very Very Warm<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I won&#8217;t give chapter and verse yet. I note the translobby are getting bit overheated about the whole ECHR guidance thing again. There is quiet work going on with legal eagles and such put forward reasoned arguments to Mps and so forth. But one trans group has suggested that there should be travel advisories to trans types people coming to the UK to not to come here which is a bit of a stretch. Reading between the lines there is a lot just ignore it and I will if you will in gov and elsewhere except places where there is an anti-trans gender\/sex agender.. I think there is a gentle but steady tide flowing against the absurdity. Noted for example by responses from big employers and places like Marks and Sparks. I also note that the puberty blocker trail is going ahead also. Turning HMS United Kingdom on to a slightly different heading takes a while.<br><br>Well so far so good. Spiffing knees up last night, all jolly, jollys. So that was fun. Usually post gig long chat\/bitching session and confessional with Claire afterwards. Told her about my absurd crush on  X the unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claire our lead vocalist with Sonic Boomers our covers band admits to getting frustrated with the bands not getting more work Slightly too much beer so perhaps to much information exchanged. A bit sore today after a combination of rehearsals on Friday and very lively gig last night. It was a very warm evening. The bass player and the drummer got through 3 shirts on that gig. Allan our bass player sweats a lot, by the gallon almost.<br><br> On the home front OK ish mostly. Alisons Dr has taken her off some meds and just told her to exercise and to walk. She can walk though stairs are a problem but she has been over medicated IMO and the Dr she saw seems to be of the same opinion. Fingers crossed. I did an experiment using my large green screen sheet. Its for filming against so you can use a process to remove backgrounds, but it had an unexpected benefit. Hung across the kitchen and covering the kitchen window it actually kept the room cooler which I didn&#8217;t expect. Also i am looking at temporary reflective thermal blinds that fit in the window gap for my music room. Not pretty but may work. I played a hospital gig with Orchard and we had aircon but it was 35C outside. Thats way too toasty for me.<br><br>i now have an additional fan which cools air by misting and condensing water which is actually pretty useful. It&#8217;s really only meant for close up use but it does help quite a bit. I don&#8217;t know how long it will last, but fingers crossed. <br><br>And WTAF is this: do watch the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c8x2zez8qwzo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"573\" data-attachment-id=\"180322\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/07\/11\/summer-yes-there-is-more-of-it\/uapwhat\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/uapwhat.png?fit=729%2C692&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"729,692\" 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;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"uapwhat\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/uapwhat.png?fit=604%2C573&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/uapwhat.png?resize=604%2C573&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-180322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/uapwhat.png?w=729&amp;ssl=1 729w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/uapwhat.png?resize=300%2C285&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another very warm week with various trials and tribulations. And why do people think its Ok to throw litter on our doorstep? Its kids mostly but just why? Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Its So Very Very Warm Maybe I won&#8217;t give chapter and verse yet. I note the translobby are getting bit overheated about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/07\/11\/summer-yes-there-is-more-of-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer, Yes there is more of it.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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":[10,60,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/triopick.jpg?fit=2204%2C1019&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KU7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":176924,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/21\/up-hill-slowly\/","url_meta":{"origin":180303,"position":0},"title":"Up Hill Slowly","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 21, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, it's hard work. 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