{"id":32812,"date":"2016-02-11T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T14:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=32812"},"modified":"2016-02-11T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T14:13:07","slug":"getting-back-to-more-regular-blog-entrys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/02\/11\/getting-back-to-more-regular-blog-entrys\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting back to more regular blog entrys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been writing stuff in other places, but I think its about time i got back into keeping up to date.<br \/>\nOK, its not a wildly exciting life that I live I admit but it amuses me to keep a bit of a diary here.<br \/>\nI am thinking a bit about getting older or (not getting older) which is of course the other possibility. I am starting to nudge towards 60 now and its a strange experience as its something I would never have imagined. Particularly as I spend a lot of time making music now. I also spend a lot of time staring in to space, but enough about that. In fact as I write I am cooking some nosh to eat before tonight&#8217;s Delta Ladies gig at the Ranelagh in exotic Bounds Green. OK its not that exotic but if you come from South London it sort of is.<\/p>\n<p>This is Feb 11 2016, so if your reading this after that its history \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/diana_stone\/24825723842\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Delta Ladies Poster\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1716\/24825723842_392b78dd07.jpg?resize=281%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Delta Ladies Poster\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s gig is a slightly different line-up which should be fun and might have the odd surprise here and their too.<\/p>\n<p>These folk will not be there, though they did click like on facebook \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/diana_stone\/24909644106\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Camel and Penguin in disguise\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1636\/24909644106_e230f65660.jpg?resize=281%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Camel and Penguin in disguise\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been writing stuff in other places, but I think its about time i got back into keeping up to date. OK, its not a wildly exciting life that I live I admit but it amuses me to keep a bit of a diary here. I am thinking a bit about getting older or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/02\/11\/getting-back-to-more-regular-blog-entrys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting back to more regular blog entrys<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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_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-32812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-8xe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179767,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/03\/february-2026-thoughts-on-getting-older\/","url_meta":{"origin":32812,"position":0},"title":"February 2026, Thoughts On Getting Older","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 3, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, a funny old day. 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