Words of Wisdom to my Sons
When I read the headline ‘A gentleman is always on time and makes love on his elbows... but doesn't tweet or own a cat’ I knew someone was on to something and they immediately got my attention. Reading the article in the Daily Mail of 23 rd April 2014 further, I got even more fascinated by the DOs and DON’Ts. Apparently a gentleman should be at ease in any situations and put others at their ease, always on time and dress to suit the occasion, fair enough! However, to suggest that getting occasionally drunk though never disorderly is also part of the etiquette associated with being a gentleman is rather stretching it. Still, I wasn’t so perturbed until I came to the DON’Ts. The list of what is not expected of a gentleman is rather unfathomable. The part where it says that a gentleman does not wear coloured trousers or pre-tied bow tie, drink Malibu or put products in his hair all seemed in line with my way of thinking until it came to communicat...