I'm listening to "Water From A Vine Leaf"- Strange Cargo III, (William Orbit), and it's impossible to keep my feet still. I don't care if phones have the resolving power of Hubble, if they don't get my feet tapping, I'm not interested. Music should stir the soul, and make you want to sing and...

I have three sons and they all have silent ringtones on their mobiles. This is disconcerting, not because I can't hear their phones going off, which I think is a blessing in disguise, but because I realise my hearing has degraded with age and abuse. For a man at age 35, sensitivity is down about...