"I still fail to understand why it should be regarded as too difficult to prepare two or three songs ready to be sung without the need for the words in front of you."

All too often I've spent months learning a new song, only to have someone just ahead of me in the singaround sing it, in which case I'd rather flick through my book for an appropriate one than sing the same song again, where I may not be so familiar with it if I've spent all my time practicing the others; or else I miss a turn which in big singarounds means not getting a go until the next session. In fact, it happened so often one year that I started to write my own thinking 'sing that one, you buggers!'

And as for the driving a car analogy - the Highway Code is updated frequently with new laws, by-lawas and recommendations - it should be refreshed and read several times, no matter how good driver you think you are and how many accidents you've seen.

LTS = whose crutches are both book and conductor shaped!