Diana Stones Blog

Diana on the Charles Bridge in Prague

 From a holiday when things were changing quite a bit.

Just me

Things are not quite going the way I expected on the whole.  Its coming up to 2 year’s  since I left the Civil Service and nothing has gone as I planed. I have learned a lot and mostly I feel less stressed and apart from a few minor lows I have not had any re-occurrence of serious depression but the plans I hoped to put in to action to support myself have flopped quite badly.

I have achieved quite a few things that I am proud of including:

• National Radio play for one of my Glass Cage songs
• Local radio play for Elephant Shelf
• Performing in a fringe festival
• Performing regularly as an accompanist in a west end venue
• Singing lead vocals live with a band regularly
• Telling  jokes as part of the duo act
• Recording and mastering a CD for Elephant Shelf  and getting 1100 pressed
• Playing at some very well known and respected venues
• Joining PRS

I could go on, its been quite a learning curve so on a personal level it’s been good and worth doing but financially its not going well.
I had hoped to do some IT freelancing but on the last project I got unwell and had to stop though ironically I seem to be functioning better than ever now. But I fall apart under any sort of pressure. There has to be something that I can do to make up the short fall financially with out cracking up again.