I forget their name but there’s a girl band who play classical instruments in a totally modern and sexy style…’Bond’, that’s their name. Remembering who they are though is neither here nor there for me because I don’t like their music. I am a traditionalist I’m afraid when it comes to orchestral instruments. I like violins, cellos and violas to look the way they always looked and sound normal, not all wired up and screechy.

I have seen the electronic violins in the local music shop, and the electric cello at wwbw, but they don’t appeal to me even though they are painted in a range of bright pastel colour – a blue violin…now that’s going too far in my opinion. I wonder what Menuhin would say?

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As many people now forgo the old yellow pages and browse the internet for shopping the opportunities for online scammers have made internet shopping a minefield for consumers. We have been browsing sites for breeders of pug puppies this week and came across a website called ‘Vivapets the Global Pet Community’ and after experiencing a very odd exchange of very dubious information from several ‘breeders’ it is very clear they are working big time fraud.

The emails are along the lines of Nigerian scam emails asking for ‘non-refundable deposits’ – in short, DO NOT DEAL THROUGH THIS WEBSITE!!!

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My son has his graduation dinner coming up at the end of the month and he really wants to cut a dash on the night so has decided he wants to go the whole way and wear formal dinner attire – a tuxedo. He’s very tall, well built and slim so he can carry off the dress – some men look like magicians in those suits, but my son will look very handsome indeed. He wants the whole bag of fruit; tails, a white shirt with cufflinks for men who like that well-dressed look…do men wear cufflinks any more…?

My plan was to hire him the outfit – £45 for the whole thing versus a couple of hundred pounds. Kind of becomes obvious which is the better deal however my son wants a suit of that kind that he can wear to other formal events. The thing is, though, this is his first formal dinner and I don’t know how many more he will have in the future to justify the expense of buying. And not all formal events call for a tux.

I’m going to try and talk him into hiring for now and then if he likes the ‘feel’ of such a suit then we can save up and buy one for the future.

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