{"id":180467,"date":"2026-09-16T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=180467"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:01:13","slug":"bug-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/09\/16\/bug-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have picked up a weird gastric flu bug and it&#8217;s horrible. Its making me ache in places I didn&#8217;t know I had. I even tried a Covid test but for a change it&#8217;s not that or is it?  God knows where I got it though. There is stuff circulating at present. I suspect it might actually be our local water supply but I really do hope not. It&#8217;s really messed up my week though I have managed to just about plough on but I have let a couple of things slip unfortunately that I really had hoped to get started with.<br>Curses foiled again. I also did something rather out of character this week too. Let&#8217;s just say a final hangup I tried to get past and I think I finally have. So it may have empowered me to feel a little more confident in on respect. There is a question I need to ask from the very core of my being and the answer can only be yes or no. And that answer will likely not actually bring down the end of western civilisation either way. Even if I don&#8217;t ask the question dear reader now I know that I could if I am spared of course.<br><br><strong>What you got<\/strong>?<\/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%253A2399830158&#038;color=%2332202c&#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\/what-you-got\" title=\"What You Got\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">What You Got<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still a bit wobbly with it at present unfortunately. I have put on a bit of weight too which is worrying. Maybe my metabolism is slowing down? Anyway I feel dreadful right now so not a lots going to happen. There are maybe some good things on the horizon, but I need to be well. I am wrecked totally, and utterly. The world as ever makes no sense of course but then why should it really? It doesn&#8217;t owe us anything. Or for that matter the universe\/entire creation or what have you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that&#8217;s all folks&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.<br><br><br><br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"626\" data-attachment-id=\"179900\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/03\/01\/strange-days-indeed-reprised\/dove-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dove.png?fit=658%2C682&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"658,682\" 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=\"dove\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dove.png?fit=604%2C626&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dove.png?resize=604%2C626\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dove.png?w=658&amp;ssl=1 658w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dove.png?resize=289%2C300&amp;ssl=1 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have picked up a weird gastric flu bug and it&#8217;s horrible. Its making me ache in places I didn&#8217;t know I had. I even tried a Covid test but for a change it&#8217;s not that or is it? God knows where I got it though. There is stuff circulating at present. I suspect it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/09\/16\/bug-alert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bug Alert<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179873,"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-180467","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-KWL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":162600,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/05\/31\/may-additional\/","url_meta":{"origin":180467,"position":0},"title":"May additional","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 31, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it been a bit of a week.\u00a0 My anxiety levels are creeping up and there does not seem to be much I can do about them, other than just try and chill out as much as possible. 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