Are there any skills you wish you could have acquired?

I wish I could crochet. I have tried and tried to learn but just can’t get it. I would love to be a better knitter and dressmaker although my dress making is probably better than most I’d love to be really good at it.
I’d also love to sing and Br brilliant at at least one sport....any sport!!

I was fortunate that I had ballet, tap and ballroom lessons and taught ballet, tap and modern jazz for a number of years. I can sew, knit and crochet and am a good swimmer, thanks to my parents taking me and my siblings from being babies but the one thing I would love to have learned is to play the piano.

For a start:

drive, sew, knit, bake, play an instrument, wallpaper................ and the list goes on.

I can crochet, knit, sew, tile, plaster, garden but I'd give so much to be able to speak a foreign language. I was rubbish at French at school, really poor at German. A few years ago son number 1 moved to San Diego, so thought Spanish was the way to go......absolute failure..........now son in French speaking area.....can't hardly remember a word of schoolgirl French.... Help! I NEED a foreign language but am too old to learn!

I do wish I could speak another language fluently, and that I'd persevered with the piano.

Rosie51
It’s not to late to learn a language. You can always dabble a bit to start with something free like Duolingo or Memrise just to get the feel, then maybe do online tutorials, which aren’t too expensive.
I brushed up my German to chat with my DB’s family like that.
I would suggest U3A groups, but you’ll be lucky if you don’t find that even the beginner classes have people who can already speak quite well and really should have gone into the next group up. Very off putting.
I’m fine with languages, music, computing and sewing. I just need your plastering skills!

Thanks Mollygo I'll investigate Duolingo and Memrise. Still not convinced this old dog can learn new tricks but I'll try

Jennyluck you can learn Spanish on Duolingo.

Good luck Rosie51. I meant to add that nothing I’ve tried so far has enabled me to say more than bore da and sut wyt ti to my Welsh relations-and when they took that to mean I could speak Welsh, I couldn’t understand their answers.

Having the gift of the gab would go a long way to allay my anxiety/stress levels I unfortunately battle with daily.

Would definately help with all the professionals involved in my poor Mum's care, who have had predominance and not allowed my own Mother's daughter and only family she sees to carry out her God given right to be the family my Mum needs at a time as such.

Like others, I would love to be able to play the piano. My mother paid for lessons when I was young but I didn't get on with them and wasted her money, I'm afraid. If I had the chance again I would try harder.

For those of you who have mentioned the skill of touch typing, it really is easy to teach yourself. There are many books out there and probably apps, too. You could learn in a weekend if you put your mind to it.

Somebody mentioned Duolingo for learning languages. I was learning Spanish on it and getting on really well but as the lessons got harder so I kept making more mistakes and therefore running out of hearts. You only get five hearts a day and you lose one every time you make a mistake. You then have to go back to the beginning of the lesson the next day when the hearts are replenished. I found this very disheartening (geddit?) and I gave up. Perhaps just me but I was sad not to be able to continue. If you pay, of course, this doesn't happen, only if you use the free version.

NotTooOld, sorry you were disheartened (yes I did geddit-good pun!). You’re right about paying. I’ve been having a year’s subscription for my birthday present in order to keep going.
I did try Babbel, not free at all and about the same price, but you can only look at one language on that.
I really wanted German, but it’s been fun to do French which I’m quite good at, Portuguese, and Dutch. I just couldn’t manage Welsh.

Hi, Mollygo - I was wondering about Babbel but did not realise it is a paid only one. My dh and I have just started Dutch together on Duolingo. He told me it was easy but I'm not finding it so. I'll carry on until I get disheartened again.

to swim. Had many sessions of lessons over the years but could never go to the pool and swim as a matter of course. would love to be able to do that!

To play the piano by ear
Make my own clothes
Drive confidently anywhere including abroad
To complete all the maintenance jobs in my home that I have to pay someone else to do.

Singing! I would love to be in a big choir which performs the famous oratorios like the Messiah, or Mendelssohn's Elijah and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. But the truth is that I have never had a good singing voice. My sister used to nudge me when we sang hymns in church, when we were teenagers. I never got chosen for the school choirs . But still I just love those big choral works.

I always wanted to learn to play the drums and also I would have liked to learn golf.