I told you that we had a modest home. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Our fish pond Is hardly with having in our little box garden.
Ha, in my dreams….
Castle Howard might just be a bit out of our mortgage league.
I think it was back in 2004 when we watched Tom Jones sing here. In fact probably not more than 100 yards from this very spot. That bloke can sing.
It was a very different life back then. Life moves on. I wonder if my Tom LP still plays. Maybe that’s my housework backdrop tomorrow. Problem is that I can’t sing like Tom, actually I can’t sing like any known living creature. My version of the Green Green Grass of Home has been listed as a paranormal event. Don’t even begin to think about my attempt to screech It’s Not Unusual, that’s an extinction level event.
Unfortunately Hawklad has acquired my dulcet tones. So he’s inherited my thick eyelashes and weaponised voice from me. I wonder if he acquired Aspergers from me as well. But thankfully that’s so far is all he’s got from me.
Lucky boy…..
A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent. 
Anyone can learn to sing if they can recognise the difference between high and low notes. I’m sure it’s not that bad! 😆
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Not true. I can tell the difference between high and low voices, but what the hell is a note? I couldn’t recognize one if it hit me in the ear! Back in the 60s I met a studio producer who, knowing my desire to front a band, told me in the studio he could make anyone sound good. And I love to sing. So I let him convince me to try. It didn’t take even 5 minutes before he ran me out of that studio, and told me to never come back! Some people just cannot sing!
I finally met a woman who cannot sing either. We sing to each other all the time. Our ears do not hear what makes other people run away screaming. To us we do just fine.
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If you’re both happy, that’s all that matters. Having taught all sorts of singers, mostly beginners or people too shy to sing in public, don’t rule it out though!
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At 72, I think my opportunities have passed. I would have made a great front man, though, I think.
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I am truly bad 🤣
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This post made me smile and giggle. Tom Jones…wow! You and Hawklad have your own unique and wonderful talents!
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I am so pleased
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Brilliant. Went to Castle howard years back. No Tom Jones singing there though. Go to say i do like Green Grass of Home, Delilah and The Boy From Nowhere. (Ssh. You never heard that.)
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But did you ever throw your panties at him in concert? Beyond the second row, panties could not reach the stage! What happened to all of them? And what makes wo en throw their panties anyway? Who would want them?
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Okay, ‘who would want them’ is funny. 😆 Indeed…. Keep your drawers in your drawers… 🤣😂🤣
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That’s a winning catchphrase. I’m going to use that.
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Oh the cat is out of the bag now. I can see you singing them.
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Never liked Tom Jones, sorry, but nope. I have for many years now, used one of his songs to indicate that the money in the jukebox is running out and it’s about time we left. It’s a bit like having that dreaded slow dance song come on and you know the big lights are about to come on.
Maybe next time the final selection will include this as the last option:
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Acoustics aren’t the greatest, but they try. Not bad, IMO.
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That’s proper music, so good.
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Hawklad can be lucky when he got forwarded only half of the beautiful being his father is.
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Thank you 😊😊
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You are very welcome, Gary!
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Your digs don’t look too shabby at all! 😆
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Very modest….
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Why we could have a singing group all the same kind of talent
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I was told to mime in the school choir
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Ah me too
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I miss getting to go to concerts. I know it’s possible to attend shows again now, but I’m still vary of being in crowds.
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I know what you mean, maybe one day
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I’m smirking and shaking my head at the first sentence. I don’t understand your Yorkshire accent in the second sentence… but I get the gist of it. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 and I’m laughing about your singing. Can we hear you live in concert? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I’ll sign up to be your fan club president. 😁 Stay out of the rain Superdad. 🌳☔🌳☔🌳
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I’m sure you have the voice of an angel. 🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️
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And the grace of a ballerina. 😂🤣😂🤣😂❤
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Tom Jones karaoke – foundation for every great singer.
Castle Howard is so….so….what’s the word? You know when people show off with their material wealth to make up for other inadequacies. You are so much better than that.
Still it is a lovely pile of bricks! Not too shabby at all.
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It’s not shabby at all. I’m still waiting to hear you do your version of The Sound of Music ❤️
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Ah, the things we pass on to our kiddos. 🙂 My love for music got passed on most definitely, but their ability to play/sing…I think that came from grandparents. I use to sing a bit at church (emphasis on bit 😏)but nowhere near what they can.
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I bet your not bad at all. I can’t remember any of my family ever singing. Maybe it’s a family thing 😊
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If it is my range (low alto) and I can pick up on a song by ear, it works out all right. Yes, could be. Families do tend to share a lot of traits. 😊
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He seems to have your sense of humour and I am sure he has lots more from you that is good. Castle Howard…Brideshead Re-visited….you must have been not very old then.
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The Jeremy Irons version I was I think something like 15 or 16
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I loved early Tom Jones, until he sang Delilah. How could a Yonex like a song about a guy killing a girl just for cheating on him? Women are not chattel, or cattle, even though it was once believed they were.
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Actually some of his stuff with Jools Holland is really good.
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I literally laughed out loud at your post. Thank you for that. I needed it today. And I’m sure your voice is beautiful in it’s own way. Although I am curious what “extinction level” would sound like. Have a blessed night!
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I would love to see Tom Jones!
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I bet you have an amazing voice!!! 🤷🏻♀️
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