What party pieces do your family members have?

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What party pieces can you or your family members do, and the departed as well? Here are some of my family's:

My grandfather's trick was being on hands and knees with a glass of water on his bald head, and bending down to drink from another cup on the floor.

I can reach all the way round my head with my left arm, and touch my left ear, as I am double-jointed.

As a child, I could quote whole chapters of books I had read, or things I had watched on TV. (I'm not so good at learning new ones now, but I can still do the old ones.)

Ah party pieces! Such a part of my childhood, all the extended family sitting around after a big dinner and getting up to do their party piece. There were lots of musical ones in my family, and I usually awkwardly recited a poem ....

Id love to bring back this tradition!!

I clicked, thinking that by 'party pieces', you meant a favourite serving platter, or aunt mauds famous, glass trifle dish or something 😆

Not a party trick, but my mums family are very musical, so any party, Christmas, birthday etc would end up with several playing instruments. Nan on the piano, great aunt on violin, my mum singing/playing accordion or guitar etc.

Work colleagues- 1 could fit a packet pf cigarettes sideways in her mouth and another could balance a glass of beer on the back of his extremely, flat head.

Aunty May ‘Hannah the soprano’ usually sang about lost loves, started at the highest note possible and went up from there 🙉 Papa’s song was something about ‘when you were sweet sixteen?’ An old aunt of my mothers sang a song about ‘Grannies heilan’ hame’ (Highland home) Granny lived in a tenement in Glasgow and had only seen the Highlands in the ‘People’s Friend’ however, great times and wonderful people very much missed!

Love this thread idea 🤣

Mine is a little nerdy but I can name every country of the World, its location, its capital city and describe its flag 🙈

DW can solve a Rubik's cube super quick.

DM still does a headstand and flick flacks at 61.

A (very straight 😂) uncle can name all of the previous Eurovision winners and their countries (far more nerdy than my piece!). Same uncle is also very good at voice impersonations.

My best friend has weird joints and can put her own foot on her shoulder while standing up.

Oh I can also say the alphabet backwards as easily as I can forwards 🙃

My younger DD can do a range of bird calls and other sound effects. Comes in very useful in drama and music lessons at school apparently.

The amount of women I know who attempt the splits after a few is very high.

Some achieve, some don't.

Wow! You have a super memory! Ever thought of going on The Chase or similar?

I can wiggle my ears.

I can juggle.
DH (at 70) can do cartwheels.
DD is hypermobile and can do flat sideways splits.

I knew someone at uni who could throw her head back, open her mouth and stick the bottom of a Smirnoff ice bottle in it like she had some kind of flip top head.

I can reproduce any melody I've just heard on a range of instruments; I can do the same plus harmony on the piano as long as it's not free jazz.

I can do the magic trick of pushing a glass through a table. (I'm not good at other sleight of hand tricks though.)

I can say Llanfairpwll in full, an I used to be able to say where someone was by their postcode. I don't mean S for Sheffield but that S62 is Rotherham.

@Bignanna Haha thanks, but my only strong subject seems to be Geography really (helped by having an interest and degrees in it I guess). I think I do have quite a photographic memory though so could probably apply it if trying to learn other subjects 🤷🏻‍♀️