What talent or skill would you most like to have

Thank you, thank you, you have reminded me that - I CAN JIVE - so I'm not completely inartistic.
One of the few disco's I ever went to was on Balloon Street at the Co-Op in Manchester Greatnan.

I would just like to be 'truly' good at something/anything - music, singing, dancing, painting - mind you it doesn't stop me from singing and dancing my way around the kitchen. And you should see me with a few pots of poster paints with my grand-daughters ...........who incidentally think I am brilliant at everything
Thank goodness for their innocence

susiecb
I just read your comment on the newsletter. Your second point alone makes it worth belonging to gransnet and I totally agree !

Thank you! I was amazed to receive a copy of the book Crimson China after entering the competition on Grans Net. I never win anything!! I am halfway through it now and it is a brilliant read. So thank you again.

The only chance I get to dance these days is with my grandson (5)! Strictly not ballroom! I was in John Lewis's with DD today and in their toy department they had a floor piano - you hop about on it and play the notes. I had a whale of a time hopping about furiously playing bits of nursery rhymes much to the amusement of other shoppers - and the utter mortification of DD - she walked away but I knew she was laughing! When I'd finished I was breathing very heavily and someone offered to fetch me a chair! I must write to Father Christmas....

Wow, arty, I'm going to John Lewis tomorrow - hope they have one of those in our local branch!

I think I want one, very much!

If you've got three legs, it does good chords! If not, take a friend!

Thank goodness I am not the only mad grandmother - I must tell my daughter!

Greatnan, if you thought you were the only mad one, you probably weren't here at Halloween. Pure fruitcake!

Some things that I would have loved to be able to do when I was younger but money/availability didnt make them possible are - ski-ing, ballroom dancing and running (as in jogging), too late now but I still admire those that can do those things.

Are you sure it is too late, Woody - do you mean for health reasons? I was 70 when I took up hill walking, 58 when started snorkeling, and I am going to learn cross-country skiing if there is still any snow when I get back from New Zealand. (Seems silly not to have a go when I live in a ski resort).

My mother was a wonderful ballroom dancer - she had to dance with a woman friend as by the time she was in her 80's most of the men had died off! She reminded me of that Joyce Grenfell song -'Stately as a galleon she sailed across the floor, doing the miltary two step, as in the days of yore'. She danced until she was 86 but then , sadly, a series of small strokes caused the gradual onset of dementia.