Hi readers who are too busy heartlessly enjoying selves in the sun to send in emails to me,

If you were hoping to shut me up (ha!) you're wrong, because, with all the advantages of social media (such as getting into slanging matches about the urgent need for gun-control with idiots in Texas who -- and this is the dumbest part -- you will never meet, and thank God for that) I still have two things worth sharing, neither of them mine.

This first is this: an insightful view into 'How not to practice' from a professional violinist...