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In my student years did a lot of karaoke. I never claimed to be good but a mate who thought he was a great performer got kicked off. The pub we went to for karaoke had a thing where the crowd in the pub if they thought the singer or singers were bad they'd put their hands in the air. Enough...

A spray job is a lot quicker than brushes. There's tricks you can use so you actually don't need to mask things. I used to know them, learnt from a decorator but I never had a sprayer so never used them and forgotten them. Decorator costs and might be hard to find one that'll do it reliably...

You see those renovation / under the hammer programmes on TV where they paint it all out in white. A matt white everywhere (could be called embarassed cauliflower or other colour name but I call it white). White is the colour that is easiest to cover over with the colour of your choice. Unlike...

Yoko Ono has talent compared to me. I liken my musical ability to the singing ability of Ringo Starr perhaps or more likely Captain Kirk actor. Although that is being unfair on both of them!! Of course, you should hear my singing, or rather not. It even scares me when I hear it!!

Unless I misread the query the issue is planning permission for the house which is a bit more involved for non experts than a bit of refurb. I would totally agree a good spruce up helps with the selling to people buying to live in it but I do question that with developers who will not see the...

Not if it involves strings!! I never fully got the hang of taking the buzz out of the strings. you know when your fingerwork on the fret is not good. I can do it with my left hand but not my right. Then I can pluck the strings with my left but not the right. It is like my right hand is not...

I suspect any developer who buys your property to turn a profit will sort out planning permission more efficiently and cheaper than @Tengu . They will also get the development they want to maximise their profits rather than having to potentially change your planning permission. I am no expert...

I went to an independent grammar with a lot of history and some very old teachers. One was the head of music who I only met for one term when he was finding all kids with potential for the school choir. After those were filtered off he got the rest to sing various songs. Among them were a few...

You know how some people have two left feet. Well when it comes to playing guitars and other plucked string instruments then I have two left hands!! I took a fancy to learn guitar so the last term of my second year in a shared house a guy who could play the guitar taught me. He was left handed...

If I had talent, and it didn't annnoy anyone, I would possibly go for the campfire favourite the guitar. Or perhaps one of the smaller stringed instruments like banjo or ukelele. Perhaps a tovshuur or morin khuur ( I am really getting into the band called The Hu of late - google wolf totem and...

I might not like to hear others choice of music in the wilds but my main reason for not carrying a musical instrument is nothing to do with that. It is purely the fact that I am not musically inclined. I have a lot of musical talent in the family (royal college of music trained and various...

Just remembered that where I used to live a neighbour used to play queen on high. It was done either when they were getting busy or had friends over in which case it was Queen songs on a big Karaoke speaker system they had. After they annoyed me by playing it so loud I could not hear my TV and...

Yes, a phone and a powerful BT speaker playing something loud and rocky when someone gets their guitar out!! It works both ways you know!! PS I have been known to put on some NC headphones on when annoying people playing music I have no interest in listening to. I then crank up the punk music...

It turns out @demographic was right. The two second movement must have beeen when it was just too low with the charge on the capacitor or battery, whichever it is. After about a week sitting in the window (or near it when the full sun was hitting the large window which made it get quite hot)...

I knew a guy whose wife had the pleasure of removing 4 ticks from almost where the sun doesn't shine. Any further and she wouldn't be able to get the tick remover to there!! Must have looked funny outside in the dark the way thee shadows from inside the tent would have looked by the light of her...

Commando the people shot often got the reaction timing wrong. Many of the baddies got shot before Arnie had even pointed the gun at them. Either that or they reacted late. I even think one explosion had the baddies fly into the air before the explosion had started.

The only robens I have is the free CCF mat the Vango retailer gave me when I bought a new vango tent. I later cut it up to a foldable torso mat weighing less than 100g!!

You can damage parts when fully clothed too you know. I slid down a rock face onto a spike once. Luckily I only had a claret patch in my pants just in front of the brown patch that came as I realised I was on a crag face sliding down to a finger of rock with a sharp point!! Still intact and I'm...

Was the body count even half that of Shwartzenager's commando film?

Ghostbusters the all female cast remake was a dead hour I regret watching (3 times!!). I kinda liked the next gen version of ghostbusters with some of the original cast making a cameo. I think there will be another one of them. They are about the grrandkids of one of the original ghostbusters.