Deryk: thank you! Never mind Freddie Mercury (that is the stratosphere indeed!), I just wanted to sound good enough to give a reasonable version of the song I'm singing, haha. But yes - practice makes perfect ... so I'm going to keep singing and see what happens!

floyd jane: thanks! I am genuinely humbled that you, and everyone else, is encouraging me to keep singing.

Bud: thank you SO much for such nice words. Your comment about not knowing whether Janice could sing until well after you were married made me genuinely smile. I think that, with me, it's a confidence issue more than anything ... I seem to have convinced myself that I can't sing - and that makes it worse, of course. Solution? as everyone else said: keep practising and keep singing - and get silly notions of "oh, I can't sing" (even before I've sung a note) out of my head, it seems!

Deej56: thanks so much for the kind encouragement - so genuinely appreciated.

Thanks everyone - your words mean a lot. In light of such nice words from everyone, I'm going to stop whining now about not being able to sing, etc., haha ... and just do my best and practice - after all, such a pre-conceived idea can't help my singing and will probably only make it worse, if anything. Thanks everyone for helping to remove it out of my head :-)

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