Thanks for your kind words Richard *grin* I won't give up the songs for a while then. Am pretty sure that using techniques to help with breathing, control, projection and relaxation will help me even though I only sing for my own enjoyment rather than being in the public eye.

There's a lot of good information on this and Alice's thread and I've been reading it all with interest. To my mind, any way of helping people to sing out those good songs we find, singing them well and without wearing out the voice is well worth the effort.

BTW, isn't it easy to misunderstand stuff in black&white? *smiley*