thefrau46 wrote:
No singing, I'm afraid. My singing would frighten Plato so my daughter never got to learn the appropriate songs to pass on to her children.
We saw Nikolaus when we went to look round the town centre* on Saturday but all he had left were nuts. So no singing required there either. *They've just moved.
This is the first year they have lived in Germany, rather than just visited.
How are things in your village? Still OK?
I don't buy into the can't sing idea
. I was what my
Natural Voice Network friend calls a "self-styled non-singer", though desperately wanting to sing, until I reached my late 50s when I discovered it was fear that had frozen my voice in its tracks. All those horrendous teachers who had asked me not to sing because I would put off the others...
Very very slowly, and with much expert help, I discovered I could sing and moved on to passionately arranging workshops for others. And singing on zoom four or five times a week with various groups has definitely kept me going throughout lockdown.
I don't know if Shesings is still a member here but I know she would support the idea that singing is our birthright and "If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing"
Sorry - didn't mean to lecture but it lies very close to my heart! All seems to be well in the village though numbers are rising around the country still and although everyone is good about masking, the social distancing in shops is not so good sadly....
