What talent or skill would you most like to have

I should love to be a bricklayer. I always wanted to build a "barley sugar" twist chimney. Never mind that I suffer from vertigo and could not climb the ladder to do it !

Tap dancing

Apparently, I really am tone deaf. We used to do verse speaking at school, and the teacher took me on one side and very kindly suggested that I should mime as I was spoiling the effect.
When I sing songs that I have heard a hundred times, my family all say 'That's not the tune, Nan.'
I am a mathematician so I should be able to sing!
However, I sing my heart out in the car.

I can't sing in tune either - I have had hearing damage in my right ear since I had a bad abcess at age 4 - and my musical sister blames my tone deafness on that. However, I agree that with training and without the memories of being shamed and belittled when forced to sing at school, I might just rise above the hearing disabllity.

Anyway, the skill I would love to have is carpentry - I would love to make things out of wood. Wood carving would be fun too.

I'm afraid that I must disagree with Mishap - I can't sing at all, even my children used to ask me to stop . I would dearly love to be able to sing in tune, especially after watching Gareth Malone

My ability to sing - not great in the first place - is compromised by a damaged larynx. Hey-ho!

Everyone can sing! - honestly! I work with community non-auditioned choirs and everyone has such fun. Singing is our birthright - we are indoctrinated that you have to be brilliant at something or you shouldn't be doing it - what nonsense!
My wish would be to be able to play the piano well, but.........I play it badly and still enjoy it, so it is worth doing. And I play easy songs for my GC too and they love it - they are a wonderfully uncritical audience - they just get stuck in and enjoy.

Greatnan, I'd like to be able to write too but have the opposite problem: I can write convincing dialogue but am not great at thinking up good plots which is a considerable drawback. And I can't sing either - would love to be in a big choir blasting out the Hallelujah Chorus or - better still - Belshazzar's Feast. I adore oratorios.

I know what you mean, GoldenGran - I have won a few prizes for poetry, and I can do good descriptions of characters and scenes, but I have found dialogue terribly difficult. I decided that I was never going to be Jane Austen so I gave up trying.

I would love to be able to write, novels short stories, but I start and then get stuck, I'm good at making up titles though.

I would love to be able to play jazz piano. I can play the piano after a fashion but always have to have music. In my dreams I sometimes find myself playing the most wonderful trad jazz but unfortunately it's not translated into reality. A trip to New Orleans many years ago was absolute bliss. There was an elderly lady who was fantastic and I couldn't take my eyes off her fingers skimming the keys.