Music

The weather outside is not very nice at the moment, unless you like it when crisp white snow dissolves into brown sludge and the clouds have decided to offer us freezing sleety rain instead.

So if you're looking for something to entertain yourself with while in the warm indoors, look no further than this video clip of the marvellous entertainer Bob Blackman. He is performing a wonderful rendition of Mule Train that incorporates banging his head with a tin tray.

Perhaps you could reinact this novelty act at home?

When you sing in the shower in a morning, do the local cats join in? Or when you start to sing at a football match, do fellow fans cover their ears and groan? Perhaps, like Daniel in the Web User office, you like to think you can sing but the noise that comes out of your mouth actually sounds akin to a goat bleating?

It's time to put your musical nous to the test. Jake Mandell, a medical student, has developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness -  it roughly characterises your pitch discrimination and musical memory abilities.  It's not very easy either - I scored 76.3 per cent and I can play the glockenspiel and a recorder!