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Thanks Lidlicker. It was a tongue in cheek remark, my friend.

Thanks all for explaining to Rooster.

If you look at the Bonus Draw page comments section, a helpful member posts the previous days Mini Draw results and mentions if it was claimed or not. Invariably not!

There are a couple of members who keep (used to keep) past "numbers" but, the site does not. Hopefully you only want to know out of curiosity because, again hopefully, you know you can't claim retrospectively 😉

Thank you for the replies. I had seen some people mention a mini draw before, but assumed it was another name for the Bonus Draw!

Can I have the numbers for the past two years please to check.😂😂

No, it's a draw in its own right. You can find it at the very bottom of any PMP page between 6.00pm and 2.00am every day.

Like the Stackpot it is first-come-first-served, not shared if more than one person tries to claim. Here is more information:

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/16-what-are-the-different-draws

or see the big blue [HELP] button at the bottom left.

Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and you will see it.

Well done! 🎉

Congratulations Sue ! 🎉

Well done Sue..

Good news! Congratulations!

Congratulations on your Stackpot win.

Congratulations on your win! 🎉

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Congratz.

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Yes, more players must be claiming now, which is good in one way but bad in another, as it means there is less drawn for the 9 pm draw.

More like an appetiser than a stockpot.

You're right, Redz. I missed tracy's birthday wishes as well.

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THANKS MARIE,

NOTE TO SELF - KEEP ENLARGING TEXT!

(JUST REREAD IT - I SEE I WASN’T THE ONLY 1 🙃)

Redz, it was the poet whose birthday it was, not Snowqueen's.

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SNOWQUEEN,

HAPPY BORN DAY FOR YESTERDAY - HOPE YOU HAD AN ENJOYABLE DAY 🥳

That was brilliant, Snowqueen. It gave me a chuckle. I am sorry you have to share a birthday with him. Happy belated Birthday. You are a lot better liked than him.

Thank you Snowqueen. I enjoyed that.

I still have a few bits of sonnets in my head from my younger days which I quite liked. Some chap from Warwick I think.

I also like Brian Bilston as he often makes me grin and yesterday I definitely grinned :

UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (Brian Bilston)

It’s important to share, or so I’ve been taught,

to show kindness to others), to be a good sport.

But now all of those teachings have taken a bump –

for I share my birthday with Donald Trump

For years I knew not of this dark, dreadful fate,

and with ignorant bliss I honoured the date –

but then it got hijacked, sullied, gazumped

by a self-serving bigot, a foul gibberlump.

With him, I would share an infectious disease,

a mouldy bread roll, infestation of fleas,

a romantic weekend at a toxic waste dump –

but please, not my birthday, Mr Tangerine Chump.

Alternative dates he is welcome to try –

12th Fibtember, 33rd July.

But 14th June? In a lake, take a jump

and find a new date, you deranged sewage pump.

Roger McGough, closely followed by Adrian Henri.

Gerard Manley Hopkins. Lots of lovely alliteration.

Pam Ayres and Edward Lear for humour. Studied Tennyson at school, quite liked a lot of his poems.

John Cooper Clarke. Went to a hall in Salford to listen to him a few years back....brilliant

Probably John Donne. I haven't read any poetry for quite a while now I come to think about it. I should probably change that.

I have read all of Brian Bilston's books this year - relatable, humorous and thought-provoking. I have also enjoyed reading Simon Armitage, Barbara Kingsolver, George Mackay Brown, Donna Ashworth and Lemn Sissay.

Brian Bilston

Love Pam Ayres

Several, like avisk. Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Wordsworth, Spike Milligan, Edward Lear.

I like lots of poems by various authors but Rudyard Kipling has written many that I like.

Leonard Cohen.

Can't choose one! Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman or Louis MacNeice - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91395/snow-582b58513ffae

Anything by Pam Ayres is bound to be entertaining.

Ooooh! I love Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti. 🐷

I second Spike Milligan.

I would also have to say Lewis Carroll for Jabberwocky.

John Betjeman.

For humor Spike Milligan who is referred to as an "Irish comedian and writer" only because the UK would not give him citizenship here.

;-)

Never really been interested in football.

One of the best days of my life was when my son decided he didn't want to play football anymore.

Having said that I was befriended by some professional football players in the distant past. Probably as the last thing I wanted to talk about was football. When you think about it talking football with them is like talking shop.

…..and 28 years since we Scots have been there. 🥳

@Tattiesoup - because it's boring.

Absolutely Tattiesoup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

How can you be bored with the world cup? It's only every 4 years!

Bored with all the football, perhaps??

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Been a good 24 hours for Stackpot claims.

I am with Glitter. Been here longer than Wildflower and still patiently checking and waiting for a win.

You did well Wildflower, with my bonus now exceeding £4,500 I am also keeping my fingers crossed 😀

You never know when it might be you again!

I know that feeling

Hope you do get a 2nd win Wildflower I have been on here longer and still hoping for my 1st win 🤞

@ CSK/Malc'. I believe the celebrations where not for our visit, but for the Kings Official Birthday Celebrations.

Presumably referring to Trooping the Colour.

What was going on?

Thanks.

Things just dropped into place for us.

That was an unexpected surprise for you, PacMan. Glad you enjoyed it.

Glad you had a good time in London.

I don't, I am not on my computer after 6pm. But I do occasionally check to see if my postcode has been picked and I missed it, and it hasn't

Pearl, when do you check the £100 Mini draw??

There's no issues with the emails that we are aware of. We always tell members that they shouldn't rely on the reminder emails as so many things can affect them arriving, plus with 9 draws a day it is possible that you may miss a win on one of our first-come-first-served draws if you are relying on the email to remind you to check.

I just check twice a day, when I get up, which is before 9am, and then after 9am. That covers all the main draws.

The 'reminder' can be a bit random.

I believe not much can be done about the timings, mine usually arrive late afternoon.

Not always successful but I try and make a routine for when I check to set my own reminder.

9Am, 12 Noon, 6Pm and 9Pm are I believe the key times.

Good luck

Never had that problem as I don't need them. You could miss out on a first to claim wins if you wait, which is not necessary as the site is open 24/7.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/30-my-email-reminders-arent-coming

Strangely quieter on Monday, as much lighter incoming flights were just cruising over my area, not trying to climb with a heavy load of fuel.

We get a plane going over every 90 seconds 😕 I loved lockdown, (from a nature point of view) strangely enough it is the only time I have ever seen buttercups growing up to my knees.

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CSIKIJANOS,

WERE YOU THERE WHEN THE RUSSIAN IL-76 & THE VIETNAM AIRLINES BOEING 787-10 DREAMLINER AIRCRAFT FLEW IN/OUT OF BRS? 😳

WHAT ABOUT WHEN THE RED ARROWS FLEW REGULARLY INTO FILTON AIRFIELD - DID YOU SEE THOSE?

The skies are polluted with what is being spread over the world. Research how planes fly in the air. The most fuel they use is taking off.

On flight paths for Mildenhall and Lakenheath so plenty of US military flying over at times. Often awake around 0440. In Yatton, years ago would see planes make a right turn after climbing out of Lulsgate Bottom (Bristol airport, fogbound hollow much of the time)

During lockdown we realised how noisy a swan's flight is because one took off & flew low overhead.

Hi Sylvia - love to Bognor. When I lived there early 1970,s Lec were still making refrigerators on that site.

Sorry Sylvia R but I doubt you would've managed to avoid seeing it anyway as it was all over the Internet from very early am...

Well done Scotland, and thanks to Buttercup for providing that scrap of good news, even though I am not a football fan. At least one of the Home Nations has managed a win.

I agree with Little Owl about how pleasant lockdown was in terms of noise and pollution, and very few pedestrians on the pavements.

I woke up as usual on a Sunday to the noise of Nasty Neighbour mowing his large back and front gardens - at 9.30 am. .

The glider trips from Bognor Lec airfield will be starting soon.

I was hoping to watch the Scotland match without knowing the score - no point now that Buttercup2 has spoilt the fun, so catching up with Politics South and Laura Kuellensberg.

We live about 6 minutes flying time from Brize Norton and Fairford. We get military planes. The Globemaster from the London flypast yesterday did several low circuits over us before it went back to Brize. We often get A400s doing circuits after midnight.

You woke up at 4.30am Enver? I went to bed at 4.30am after watching Scotland win their match in the World Cup tournament 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽ ☺️

One thing about lockdown was the peace and clean air, Enver. Then Putin invaded Ukraine and the world changed. I used to like the comforting sound of the Dakota mail plane taking off in the early hours of the morning (in the days when your post arrived the next day).

Cape Verde held their own against Spain, one of the favourites to win the World Cup. Not a shabby show at all.

Sorry, nodded off. What were we talking about?

YAWWWWWNN.

(Apart from the reference to Juvenal. That was interesting, and - somewhat inappropriately re the quote - made me think of a cage fight hosted on the White House lawn by a man who rejects democratic decisions.)

@Chris - the point that is being made, I think, is that you referred to the top 24 but there are 48 teams in the World Cup.

1994 was the last time that it was 24 teams.

There are discussions about having 64 teams in it next time.

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JUVENAL USED ‘CIRCENSES’ AS A BROAD METAPHOR FOR ALL STATE-SPONSORED SPECTACLES - FROM THE RACING TRACK (CIRCUS MAXIMUS) TO THE GLADIATOR ARENA.

BY PAIRING PANEM WITH CIRCENSES HE WRAPPED ALL PUBLIC GAMES TOGETHER.

THERE WERE ACTUALLY FAR MORE CHARIOT RACES THAN GLADIATOR GAMES IN ANCIENT ROME.

HIS METAPHOR DIRECTLY CRITIQUED HOW THE CITIZENS OF ROME WILLINGLY TRADED THEIR REPUBLICAN POLITICAL POWER (VOTING RIGHTS) & DUTIES FOR FREE PROVISIONS & ARENA DISTRACTIONS.

@Purple Anonymous - Both of these countries are represented at the current World Cup along with loads of other non-runners. THAT is the point I was making, that if the World Cup is supposed to be a showcase for the very best in the game, the presence of Haiti, Curacao, Cape Verde, Uzbekistan and numerous others is ridiculous.

Yes, they won their groups. But York City won the National League (5th tier of English football) last season. That does not give them a Champions' League spot.

Circuses in this context meant gladiatorial contests and the putting to death of criminals. Nothing to do with Billy Smart and that genre.

That may have been true once but now celiacs are revolting about animals in circuses.

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EMPEROR OGRE,

PANEM ET CIRCENSES: ‘Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt’.

Money is the root of all evil and FIFA are part of the show.

@Rosy 2 cakes you'd be surprised how many foreign footballers play in the UK premier leagues, honing their skills in the UK, but obviously playing for their National teams in the World Cup...

In fact, according to the latest FIFA world rankings, Uzbekistan are 51st and Curacao 82nd, so I have no idea what the OP was on about...

Curacao and Uzbekistan maybe not top 24, but maybe top 48? (That's how many are at the World Cup).

I have zero interest in the football, but I was surprised that some countries such as Cape Verde and Curacao had enough quality players to play in a world cup. ? Also there must be some huge differences between a team like Cape Verde and a team like Spain for example. Seems to me to be a money making exercise.

I agree Chris. For me the competition only really gets going when we get to the knockout stage. Many of the group games are meaningless.

I find it ridiculous that most (8 out of 12) of the teams that finish 2nd to bottom in their group get "rewarded" of going through to the knockout stage.

I guess the way FIFA look at it is, more games = more money.

Had a French pen pal who was the French friend of my friend's pen pal (or possibly exchange student, can't quite remember). I wrote in French, or tried to, I think she wrote in English. Came to an end when she wanted to come over, but my family could not accommodate.

Also while in secondary school, we all were given pen pals in Japan - corresponded for quite a while, but then she stopped writing and that was it.

Made friends with several foreign students while I was at university, corresponded with a couple of them but now there is only one, in Thailand, who keeps in touch.

I had loads from all over the world. Music magazines and fanzines back in the day would print the addresses of those wanting penpals and you could simply write to them directly. These days with GDPR and all of that, it wouldn't be possible.

Yes, school arranged it in our first-year at grammar school, but it fizzled out, then 2 yrs later they set it up again and I have visited her several times in France, inc with my husband a couple of times. She came once before I married but goes globe-trotting so I think it’s a bit tame for her here. She has cancer at the moment - not heard from her recently.

OMG. I forgot about the guy I started writing to who was from Mauritius. We only had 2 or 3 letters off each other before he wrote "do you want to be a lover of me" 😳 ..... it scared the living daylights out of me 🤣. I was only 12/13 in the early 70's & nothing like my more mature granddaughters these days 🤣

I had a French pen pal when I was at school in a run up to a student exchange week. which I was dreading as we had very little in common. I can't remember how I got out of it especially as I'd enjoyed the school French trips, but the student exchange never came about for me.

I had two pen pals, one only lived about 15miles miles from where I was born lol.

and wanted to meet in the city. I didn't turn up as I got anxious about it.

The other lived in Staffordshire. We only corresponded in the school years for a while.

About ten, through the International Pen Pals thingie in Turku Finland. Some lasted a letter, some a couple of years, and my best, my friend Marie-Christine (Kiki) in the south of France, about ten years!

Never had Pen Pals as such. My eyesight was poor when I was growing up so reading and writing were not something I enjoyed. So much better now after my cataract operations.

Since I retired, bought a computer and learnt the basics I use the internet to chat with people all over the world. The UK, Germany, Canada, USA, Pakistan and the Philippines.

@Cakey - He's probably living in The Irish Republic under an alias, I knew one young guy who went AWOL from NI, but don't think he ever served in Germany.

When I lived in Dublin we went on a coach tour of some of NI, oh the embarrassment of being in a red Bus Eirann coach (possibly containing IRA) which stuck out like a sore thumb in the north. The british army lads in combat clobber with machine guns were crawling in peoples gardens or hanging on street corners giving us all suspicious looks, as did the NI police (also armed & with body armour) & looking down the peaks of their hats. Quite a few checkpoints too with scary armoured grey landrovers.

I had a French penpal whose English was far superior to my French, that just fizzled out.

An American girl who seemed to spend her time chasing after pop bands, we had little in common.

A boy in Czechoslovakia, that was going well until I joined WRNS and was advised I could still write but wasn't allowed to tell him that I was in WRNS or anything about what I did. It was too difficult so another one fizzled out.

I also wrote to a British soldier in Germany, we had the same sense of humour and wrote regularly until I received a letter from his commanding officer. His regiment had been posted to Northern Ireland (this was early 1970s) and he would tell me of what was happening in NI, how they were attacked when on patrol, their life. His CO returned my last letter saying he had gone AWOL and that I should contact the regiment if he got in touch with me. He never did, probably because he thought he would be compromising me being in the forces myself. I never heard from him again.

I think I had a school arranged French penpal briefly. I then had my best friend who emigrated to Australia with her family at 17. We wrote to each other regularly for many years, even when it went weeks we always picked right up where we left off. Eventually we moved over to emailing and then lost touch when she got married and had kids. I still think about her now and then but don't have any contact info anymore and haven't had any luck trying to track her down by her profession (she became an architect).

When I was younger it all started when I was 8 my parents owned a static caravan in Towyn in Wales we used to stay at the caravan mostly school holidays and bank holiday weekends. I was from Liverpool at tge time I meet a girl called Jane from Croydon her parents owned the caravan in the next row from ours and we became friends and we started writing to each other so we were pen pals but we also saw each other from time to time at tge caravan park that was in 1980 I was 8 I'm now 54 and we are still in touch we send Xmas cards and we use Facebook messenger which has made it easier for us to keep in touch ❤

I had several in the late 70’s when I was at middle school, 4 in France, 1 in Israel, 1 in Japan, 1 in Norway, 1 in Italy. I used to always be at the post office buying stamps.

I had a German pen pal in my early teens organised by the language teacher at my school with a school in Germany where my teacher had a German friend and they thought it would be good for both sets of pupils. We each wrote in both our languages for a few years before things petered out . We sent small gifts to each other for birthdays and Christmases: I still have a very pretty necklace she sent me. It's a small amber cube on a silver chain. I don't remember where in Germany she was from and I'm not sure of her name now either but I often wonder where she is now and how she doing.

I had a penpal at school from Finland. Like Lidlicker, I've no idea how we connected.

Yes, one in France, who came and stayed with me and I went and stayed with her family. My first husband and I also went to stay with her and her husband a few years later.

Also had one in Finland, who I also met when she came on a visit to London.

I had an American penpal for a few years - I can't remember how we first connected. I also had a French penpal via school. That one was specifically a group arrangement to eventually facilitate an exchange. About 20 of us corresponded for a year before the French students came to stay with us for 3 weeks. The following year we all went over to France for 3 weeks.

Yes, have you got a pencil mate?

Had a French girl, arranged via school, she wanted to be an exchange student but my Mum didn’t fancy it, worried about what she would eat!

It eventually petered out as such things tend to do, can’t remember who stopped writing.

Had a friend who went to live in Canada, we kept in tough for a couple of years but didn’t have anything much in common after a while plus she had 5 children so was pretty busy!

😂 you have certainly been busy with the ladies It’s lovely to read all about them you ought to write it all down in your memoirs

I just had one in France my PE teacher used to translate the letters for me

Had several during & after college & later working, costly with the air mail & International Reply Coupons some wanted.

several in Philippines turned out to be scammers wanting currency notes for high school projects (I sent photocopies & got no reply),

3 in New Zealand (met one vegan girl who came touring UK),

2 in Singapore (met one chinese girl who stayed with relatives in London for a while & I got on well with, but from a rich family),

one in East Germany (who hardly understood english, & my german was basic at the time),

one in Tenerife who I was working with in Warners kitchens on Sheppey, he later became a notariat (Spanish solicitor).

Also a girl in Mexico City, dunno what happened to her.

one in Holland (she came here & we went on a coach tour, joined the Dutch navy & vanished in a submarine),

one french girl in Mauritius. & one boy in West Germany (whose school group stayed at the mountain guest hut where I worked in Bavaria), ... (Sure there were more, can't remember)...

Also wrote to my college german teacher (a uni student from Essen), & a CSV (trainee teacher from boarding school who was learning french & german) & went teaching abroad,

Lost contact with all of them eventually as mum threw all the correspondence out when I went to live in Dublin with a gf. Probably just as well, as some replies came back in about 10 days, others from further away in 5 weeks, got confused who i'd told what, one said "That's the 3rd time you told me your cat died'. 😂

I just remembered, I also had one right here in Livingston when I lived in London, can't for the life of me remember her name or address, nothing rings a bell cycling round or even browsing a street map, but the town has greatly expanded & changed since.

Yes. I had one in the USA and another in Turkey....I used to write in German to the girl in Turkey as it was a shared language between us...that was in the 1980's... often wondered about them.

Had 1 when at school, but was never really all that keen. Pen pal was the one who stopped writing!

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Yes and ended up marrying her. In answer to the follow up question, yes I do have a pen pal now.

Congrats Dusty! I close my eyes & count to 10,maybe then I will win! 🤗🙏

Congratulations on your win.

Congratulations, Dusty! Here's to the next one!

Many congratulations, dusty55

A lovely surprise, dusty55; nice one! I only joined in May so I may be waiting a few years, ha ha! 🤞

thank for all your replies. will keep me interested .

and Brian I've been playing since 2017 and only had a flash draw win before so there's still hope

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Congratulations I have been playing every day for 4 year's never had so much as a single bonus win survey video draw not a single penny I will just keep trying and praying something will happen on the upside I am at around £730 in my pot.

Congratulations on your win! 🎉

Congratulations 🥂

Congratulations 👏🎉

Congratulations! 🥳

Congrats dusty55, enjoy your win🥂🍾 - thanks for posting, gives us all hope.

Congratz dusty55

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The bonus is paid with all wins except for the Flash Draws.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/16-what-are-the-different-draws

It also doesn't reset after a win as an incentive to keep members coming back and they could then win even bigger next time, if they are lucky enough to win again.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/23-what-is-the-bonus-all-about

Remember when Dr Who discovered an alien machine that dispensed specimen bottles filled with whatever chemical formula you typed, he typed something, a wee bottle fell out, & he opened it, smelled it & drank it to everyone's horror. ... he said."Jolly good water".

Lol 63 I liked that one.👍

Once there was a scientist

But now he is no more

For what he thought was H2O

Was H2SO4

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I PREFER CELTIC & ACV - FOR THEIR HEALTH BENEFITS 🙂

(FORGOT TO ADD NOT ON 🐟 & 🍟) 🙃

Matrimony by Gilbert O'Sullivan although I would empty the venue as can't sing

What about "Kah-Lee" 🤣 (I don't know the words either, but they usually come up on a screen)

I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket!

Loved those last two "Twelfth" and "Folks". The only time I did it wasn't the usual karaoke, in a pub or whatever, I sang Amazing Grace. It was suited to where we were at the time.

Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing in the Dark but would never do Karaoke, just sing it in the car or at home.

Folks Who Live on the Hill is just about achievable for me - with sincere apologies to Peggy Lee, Jerome Kern and all who have anything to do with it!

Twelfth of Never by Cliff Richard

Anarchy in the UK

Open Arms by Journey or Make you feel my Love by Adele

I did ask a busker once if he could play Far, Far Away :)

Fairground attraction... Perfect.

I definitely don't do karaoke as I've got a terrible voice but, if I did, it would have to be my theme tune, Jethro Tull's Too Old To Rock & Roll, Too Young To Die. :-D

I love Queen, but A Crazy Little Thing Called Love is the only song of theirs where I can hit all the notes.

With a great deal of imagination required on the words "hit" and "all!"

They're coming to take me away ha ha because there isn't a singing note in it and the pub would be so grateful!

Show me the way to go home, as the pub would be willing I went!

I doubt if any of my neighbours have heard of the internet yet!

🤣 Chased the neighbours off Beth?

Only kidding, just think, if your postcode comes up you won't be sharing & you won't have to worry about getting pipped at the post on the stack pot or mini draw! 🤞

I am the only one with my postcode

I won on 29th April...over £500. There are only a few registered with my postcode. I was over the moon and couldn't believe it... don't give up yet 🤞🥰

P.s. just checked and only 5 people are registered with my postcode.

Have a look at the Winners Results pages. If you click on each draw tab you can see that thousands of winners were the only one registered with the winning postcode.

Better chance of getting in first/not having to share any winnings.

Each member’s entry has the exact same chance of being selected in a draw. The system completes the draws from a database of active account ID numbers using a random number generator and the parameters of the smallest ID number to the largest. It then displays the postcode on the chosen account number as the winner of the draw. All it ‘sees’ is the account numbers of active members, it is not influenced by any other data or outside factors and is as random as a computer can be.

Have a read of this from the FAQ. tells you how the postcodes are selected. you have the same chance as anyone. It is your membership number that is chosen and the associated postcode displayed.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/14-how-are-winning-postcode-selected

People have won having been the only one in the postcode area. Good luck.

I agree about the benefits of choir singing. I really enjoy mine and the performances. We're learning Spaceman by Sam Ryder at the moment. As a soprano, I'm in awe of Sam Ryders effortless achievement of top notes. He makes it seem very easy to achieve.

@Caroline C - Snowking and I went to see Jethro Tull last month. I thought Ian Anderson had a good, if characterful voice back in the day. He has to work hard to hold a tune these days. A bit like me come to think of it...

I can't sing well at all these days, wasn't too bad as a youngster. I started going to a local singing group a couple of months ago. My Mum had recommended it and it's very relaxed and friendly. I can't stand next to my Mum though as we make each other laugh !

My Dad has Alzheimer's and he loves to sing. They used to go to a dementia singing group but I don't know if it's still running. When we go for a walk anywhere he sings the first couple of lines and I try to remember the rest of the song. I don't care who hears my singing then 😎

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DASOOTHMOOTHER,

THAT SOUNDS GREAT!

FOR THOSE NAVIGATING ALZHEIMERS, SINGING IS A MAGICAL WAY OF UNLOCKING MEMORIES & RECONNECTING ❤️

SOLO VERSE - NICE!

IS YOUR CHARITY RELEASE ON YOUTUBE? IT WOULD BE LOVELY TO HEAR IT.

@Redz3112 - must agree with you - I 'sing' with an Alzheimer’s choir and feel better for it.

I also recorded a charity CD of Scottish songs with other members of a Rotary club, including a solo verse for one of the tracks. Because my voice is so low, I had to stand a slight distance from any microphones, except during my 'solo'

Re singers who can't - Sting is another one. Listen to him close-up in a live performance - god-awful voice!I wonder how much 'tweaking' is done by the sound engineers to make them sound reasonable. And wasn't it Madonna? who sang at a sports match/Superbowl/ World Cup and was practically booed off because her voice was so bad?

CarolineC - you've started my earworm off! 'All around my Hat' will be going 'All around my head' for the rest of the darned day now! 'All around my hat I will wear the green willow, All around my hat for a lifetime and a day, And if anyone should ask me the reason why I'm wearing it, It's all for my true love, Who's far, far away.'

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EVEN IF YOU DON’T TRY KARAOKE, I’D RECOMMEND ANYONE TO SING REGARDLESS OF THEIR ‘VOCAL TALENTS’.

DID YOU KNOW THAT SINGING (& DANCING) = ULTIMATE SOUL FOOD & MEDICINE!

BOTH DROP STRESS & BOOST FRONTLINE ANTIBODIES!

DO IT IN A GROUP TO MULTIPLY THE HEALTH BENEFITS!

DEEP BREATHS, TOTAL MOVEMENT & ZERO INHIBITIONS - JUST VIBE!

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@Hopeful2B - interesting you should say that. I went to a Steeleye Span concert quite a few years ago now and Maddie Prior, their lead singer, was going round members of the audience in the interval giving them a leaflet. Apparently, she runs "singing retreats" from her home, where people who say they can't sing go to just... well, sing! She said it was really relaxing as there was no judgement about people's ability or anything like that. Mind you, she has a marvellous voice (All Around My Hat, etc).

I agree with the three of you.

It makes me sad that almost everyone says that they can't sing/ have a terrible voice/were told at school not to sing. With many people it seems to be a hangover from their childhood. I've sung in choirs for most of my life. My voice used to be quite good, but it's going downhill now I'm old. Nevertheless I still get a lot of joy from singing in my Community Choirs. Most people can sing adequately, if they would just relax and sing out. One or two in my choirs actually do have fairly bad voices, but we accept them as people who love to sing. Why not find a choir and give it a try. You might surprise yourself!

@Barrie - he's a bit 'niche' but might I add Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) to the list of 'great vocalist but not much of a singer'? Another niche one would be Roger Chapman who was the lead singer of Family back in the day (The Weaver's Answer and In My Own Time are probably their best known - a prog rock band).

I'm adding Mick Jagger to the list of "great vocalist but not much of a singer."

@Barrie. Thinking that the Great Bob Dylan didn't have the most musical voice!

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May I point out that some great songwriters \ vocalists aren't\weren't good singers. Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen & Tom Waits come to mind.

I did a duet not long ago but the other person was a lot taller than me (they nearly always are!) and the mike was set up for him, so all that was seen were my lips moving :-(

I'd been practicing for ages too, trying to sing it without blubbing :-( It was "1st. of May" by Lulu & Maurice Gibb. Watch it on YouTube and you'll see what I mean.......that's if you're a softie like me

I have never done and will never do karaoke even though I sing along with the radio or anywhere. It seems to annoy my family that when I hear a phrase in someone's chat which is a line from a song (football commentators use lyrics all the time) I give a rendition of said song, with or without the correct words.

Never done karaoke.

Sang semi-professionally in my teens. Sang in the former pupils carol performances when back in Edinburgh for Christmas with my parents. My voice has completely gone now due I think to lack of use.

I wouldn't do karaoke. I don't think I can sing and never sing along to anything in company! Both my parents were in a choir though, so I don't know why the singing gene missed me.

Go for it Beth8it! My singing voice has improved by warm ups, singing practise and vocal performances especially in tbe last 4 years as I've increased performances 🎤🎶

I was in the junior school choir and remember how upset I was at not being good enough to sing the descant part. Since then I seem to have lost my mid-range, but noticed a card in the shop window for singing lessons, all abilities. I wonder if it’s worth a try.

I've done karaoke just the once, but I wouldn't do it again. I used to perform in a 60s band, and when amongst other musicians, I perform so much better. A couple of mates of mine went to the US and took part in karaoke. The Americans take it unbelievably seriously, so much so that my mates were worried they were going to get lynched. The Americans don't treat it as fun, more like a singing contest, and they don't care if someone has done a particular song already. One night, on a cruise, the same song was performed 3 times!

@samandi Same here! At Junior school the music teacher put a row of seats to one side and made us all sing something while he walked round close to you listening. If he tapped you on the head you had to do a walk of shame over to the row of seats and sit down on one. Those people had to sit separately every music lesson and could only sing a verse in a song if he instructed them to (which wasn't often). At the tender age of 9 years I remember the humiliation of getting tapped on my head and the ensuing class ridicule that followed. Some Teachers really shouldn't be in their profession.

We'd sing hymns in daily assembly, & one afternoon a week teachers would play piano & we'd sing in small groups, songs like Volga Boatmen, Walting Matilda, Row your boat, etc & anytime in the school bus we'd sing rugby songs, so I'd join in any Karaoke though my singing isn't the best,

Once on holiday in Spain they had me on stage with the group singing Guantanamera as I knew the spanish words (a teacher used to bring his guitar in the dorms & sing it, I also had the cassette from Los Zafiros).

Definitely not although like Mrs Pea, I would like to be able to sing. At primary school I was told to just pretend to sing because I was no good at it. After that I was never brave enough to try. Teachers don't realise how much damage they can inflict with their thoughtless comments

No way

Lordy no!! I'd empty the pub in under a minute! I only sing in the car if something comes on that I know or like! Singing is one of the things I'd love to be able to do though.

Only a couple of times couldn’t do it now as trouble with my voice

Yes and it's good fun! I'm a singer/performer and perform locally most months at open mics/showcases 🎤

No & not unless I was RAed.

I’m with Poppy.

@LoL 63 - Snap,but they asked me to sing again and I was so drunk, I did!

🧙‍♂️🧑‍🦯🤣🎤🎤

I had a go, but I'm afraid I was very, very drunk.

I've never done it and never would. No-one would want to hear my singing!

Not unless I was being paid well, and the audience being paid better - or drugged.

I wouldn’t choose to do it in a pub, but Mr M and I do a lot of singing at local dementia cafes

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I remember going to see a Winnie the Pooh film when I was 9 or 10 which had the Tigger song in it. A much loved neighbour called Marion kindly took about 10 of us kids from the street. We were manically bouncing and singing the song most of the way home ! Must have been quite a sight. Happy Days 😃🐯

Thanks, Lol - i could only remember the first 4 lines, and it always niggled me.

Nice one lol 63... I had forgotten that one !!!

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I really can say that I've never had any ad covering anything. They all stay in their little designated slots and behave nicely! I use an ipad. I think certain devices have limitations with loading some websites.

Me too, John F! And Malc, - I sent a screen shot in as the ad was indeed obliterating the whole screen - and was told that as I was on a kindle/fire tablet, that it was too niche ! (The thing that provides internet type stuff - like Microsoft(?!)? meh .... No idea!

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You can click on the "x" top right on each Ad to close, & your device will learn given time. Also scan for viruses, & check your Firewall is high enough.

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Physical work,, feeling tired but pleased with yourself, is a great relaxer. Working out stress by digging the garden, cleaning the house, sorting out cupboards, anything that makes you tired but gives a visible success at the end of it. It may not solve the problems, but sometimes you can forget them for a while, then go back and see them from a new viewpoint.

I think the mind is a powerful thing, some people are more susceptible to alteration either with hypnosis and subliminals. I know my cousin had hypnosis for her anxiety issues and it apparently worked, kind of jealous really 😂 i've tried hypnosis cd's, subliminals, etc. and whilst i felt relaxed to a degree (probably because i've done muscle relaxation training etc) nothing mindwise really altered. And people on subliminal forums seem happy when things work out. different strokes for different folks.

I just wish either therapy or hypnosis, or anything worked here..

I have had hypnotherapy. She used to read from a script (she was still in training which was how I could afford to try it ). She was reading about walking along a beautiful beach and I was actually there, not just imagining it. I could feel the sand on my feet. It was a lovely experience but it only worked like that once. She put a thing on your finger to measure how deeply relaxed you were. I don’t know what it actually measured. She looked at it and said wow! That was deep.

I think it can be done but as mentioned above only on some people.

Never had it tried on me.

Stepson tried hypnosis to give up smoking but it didn’t work on him, yet it worked on his girlfriend who also went at the same time. She gave up immediately, he has progressed to vapes but not stopped entirely.

Alexa has a ‘sleep hypnosis’ option to help you get to sleep. It works for me about 80% of the time 😴

I can hypnotise people. I know because I was with someone many years ago and we went to a show and the 'hypnotist' was working on a number of people in the audience together, my then wife included. Being brought up a certain way I would not have someone else embarrass me by their actions so I had a quiet word with the wife and amazingly she was no longer hypnotized by the stage guy but by me. Yes, I know, that would be frowned upon now but fortunately I don't care. Also when I was still a child my parents felt I had problems due to the horror stories I loved to constantly read so I got sent to a psychologist/hypnotist and he both drugged me and 'hypnotised' me... and you wonder why my mind works the way it does. In fact neither worked and fortunately I carried on reading my favourite books, along with my second favourite back then, sci-fi.

FORGIVE CPS PMP.

YES, NO & YES DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES/REASONS.

HYPNOSIS FUNCTIONS BY BYPASSING THE BRAIN'S ANALYTICAL LEFT HEMISPHERE, ALLOWING SUGGESTIONS TO REACH THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE AS A LEGITIMATE NEUROLOGICAL PROCESS.

DECLASSIFIED USA GOV PAPERS INDICATE THIS MECHANISM CAN BE PUT INTO PRACTICE TO ACTIVELY FACILITATE DEEP FOCUS & ENHANCE INFORMATION RETENTION.

- hypnotism succeeds by 'disengaging the ego-screening function of the left hemisphere' so that the right hemisphere can accept suggestions holistically and without contradiction.

- hypnosis allows the subject to access 'unused information storage capacity' in the brain, making it highly effective for increasing concentration and memory.

How much does it cost, & does it actually work (apart from the fear of paying all your money to the hypnotist for several sessions more instead)?

https://youtu.be/Iy_bJelwa0c?t=82

Like your neighbour Titchy m y hubby was hypnotised to help with stopping smoking over 30 years ago. It worked for him too. Any time he felt he was wavering he just gave the lady a phone and hearing her voice was enough to keep him on the right track. He’s never smoked again.

All the money he would have used for his weekly cigarettes was put into an account which was used for holidays.. 😎

How do you think I persuaded Lin to marry me? 😁

Do I believe it's possible? Knowing how gullible people can be - possibly. Have I been hypnotised? How do you think Lin got me to propose to her? 😁

My husband was hypnotised many years ago during a stage show we attended, so funny to watch, he said he felt tired afterwards.

One of our neighbour's was hypnotised 30 odd years ago to stop her smoking. It worked! She's in her 80's now and still doesn't smoke.

When stage hypnotists such as Derren Brown do their act, they are always quite selective about their targets. Some people are susceptible to it, some are not, and professional hypnotists know the exact signs to look for.

There was a sketch on Little Britain where Matt Lucas was one of those characters ("Look into my eyes, deep into my eyes, not around the eyes, deep into the eyes") where he hypnotised the audience, sat down and read the newspaper for a while and then told them all that they'd just seen the most amazing show.

"Boom, and you're back in the room. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen and good night!" (Thunderous applause.)

Never tried it myself

I also had hypnosis for pain. Whilst he was mumbling away whilst I was supposedly out of it, I was thinking what load of codswallop it was. Didn't work for me either. Fifty years later I'm still taking the pills.

I attended a pain clinic a few years ago. Thought I would get targeted exercises, but no, it was all about hypnosis, a six week course. Didn't work at all.