Mundane facts about your day...

Was taken for a Sunday Carvery lunch yesterday to the Greyhound at Yarlet. Very nice meal & it was very busy. It's run by "2Fat Fellows" ( not an observation, it's what they trade as). They've got some decent things on the menu & are open 7 days a week pretty much all day. We'll deffo be going again. My only reservation is that they don't take them.

My new 10.5 tog duvet is much warmer than my old 10.5 tog duvet.

Today, descending the curve off the railway bridge southbound on Beaconside, I thought I glimpsed a few blue flashes in the side windows of the approaching vehicles, so I was prepared to make way for an emergency vehicle, should one appear at some point. However, I was rather surprised when an ambulance, complete with blue lights appeared behind me. By this stage, I was alongside the ghost island for the turn into Portal Road, so it was easy for both lines of traffic to part, leaving a way through down the middle of the road. At this point, however, the ambulance that I had actually seen warning of first also arrived, equally lit up and travelling in the opposite direction. By good fortune of both timing and location, there was just enough space for a passing to occur in the middle of the road.

Almost had a ford ka grafted to the rear of TB2 yesterday as the combination of me pulling up to allow a car in front to turn right and ka drivers desire to overtake three bikealists resulted in ka driver, very nearly, running out of talent. Fortunately car in front of me had started to move, so I could pull forward enough to keep out of the way.

Just been back to the doctors after several weeks of applying a prescribed ibuprofen gel to a painful trigger finger to no affect. My doctor said to come back for a steroid injection if the gel didn't work, hence my visit today.

My appointment was over half an hour late, no apology from the doctor I saw today and then she told she couldn't do steroid injections and to make another appointment!!!

Not impressed and I now have to endure another three weeks of pain.

What a waste of time.

Laurie61 said:

Almost had a ford ka grafted to the rear of TB2 yesterday as the combination of me pulling up to allow a car in front to turn right and ka drivers desire to overtake three bikealists resulted in ka driver, very nearly, running out of talent. Fortunately car in front of me had started to move, so I could pull forward enough to keep out of the way.

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Floss said:

Fed up of nuisance phone calls day after day, please tell me there is somewhere you can complain about them! I keep blocking them on my mobile, but they ring again t
he next day with a different number, I have asked them to take me off their call list but they won’t listen, I just had one where she kept talking over me and claimed not to understand me when I asked her to take me off the list and just kept talking - if I didn’t need my phone so much I would have thrown it in the bin!

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Placed, not thrown

No point damaging a good bin

Floss said:

Fed up of nuisance phone calls day after day, please tell me there is somewhere you can complain about them! I keep blocking them on my mobile, but they ring again the next day with a different number, I have asked them to take me off their call list but they won’t listen, I just had one where she kept talking over me and claimed not to understand me when I asked her to take me off the list and just kept talking - if I didn’t need my phone so much I would have thrown it in the bin!

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http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html

Fairly effective, though it can take a while to see a reduction.

Floss said:

Fed up of nuisance phone calls day after day, please tell me there is somewhere you can complain about them! I keep blocking them on my mobile, but they ring again the next day with a different number, I have asked them to take me off their call list but they won’t listen, I just had one where she kept talking over me and claimed not to understand me when I asked her to take me off the list and just kept talking - if I didn’t need my phone so much I would have thrown it in the bin!

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The Telephone preference service usually does the trick as Gramaisc suggested. If you state you are on the TPS then ask them how they got your number so that you can report them they usually hang up straight away.

Also if you are answering unknown cold callers they know the number is an active number and gets added to all sorts of calling lists.

Another trick I do is to tell the caller I am putting them on hold, put some music on, place my phone next to the speaker and bugger off to do something else instead. If nothing else it wastes the caller's time and money. They tend to not call again.

Thehooperman said:

The Telephone preference service usually does the trick as Gramaisc suggested. If you state you are on the TPS then ask them how they got your number so that you can report them they usually hang up straight away.

Also if you are answering unknown cold callers they know the number is an active number and gets added to all sorts of calling lists.

Another trick I do is to tell the caller I am putting them on hold, put some music on, place my phone next to the speaker and bugger off to do something else instead. If nothing else it wastes the caller's time and money. They tend to not call again.

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You can be met with "We're not part of the service", as though it doesn't apply to them, but it does, whether they like it or not. It won't affect calls from outside the UK, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of them now. Some phone providers have a Last Number Block facility, which can be useful. You can add your mobile numbers in the TPS system now, too.

Sometimes, it's fairly clear early on that they don't actually know anything about me, possibly they're just ringing random numbers - on those occasions I pretend to be a police station, inland revenue office, etc. Asking for their National Insurance number often distracts them from their key task.

I signed up some years ago and have probably only had three or four this year.

I had a nice chat with a young lady the other day. I answered a London number on my phone & she told me "their records" showed I'd been involved in an accident that wasn't my fault recently. She seemed surprised when I told her yes I had been involved in such an accident. When she asked when this was I said "on the 31st of September" (that didn't ring any alarm bells with her. She asked me what had happened (surely "their records" would have this info). I went into great detail explaining how I'd been waiting at a junction when a car ran into the back of mine & I suffered whiplash. As she tried to get more info I just kept talking over her. I explained that the nice driver was very apologetic but he'd been distracted by his phone. Apparently he'd been answering a call asking him if he'd been involved in an accident that wasn't his fault recently. My caller obviously didn't catch on as she said she'd have to pass me onto her supervisor, this was after about 10 minutes of her trying to get a word in. It was when the supervisor came on the line that I told him to f*ck off & stop being a wanker.
The caller gave a company name at the start of the call, I wish I'd paid more attention to the name.
You should try it, it's great fun. If you can ring them back (most don't accept incoming calls) try going through their script with them, ask them when their accident was etc.

Laurie61 said:

Almost had a ford ka grafted to the rear of TB2 yesterday as the combination of me pulling up to allow a car in front to turn right and ka drivers desire to overtake three bikealists resulted in ka driver, very nearly, running out of talent. Fortunately car in front of me had started to move, so I could pull forward enough to keep out of the way.

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Hope it wasnt a Green one!

I've just received an email from Wilkos and apparently the items in the photo below are Christmas essentials amongst all of the gold plates, baubles, tinsel, Christmas trees and other seasonal crap they have in the advert.

I was a little stuck on present ideas for a few friends and good old Wilkos has saved the day. Marigolds all round

Ideal for cleaning up the blood and teeth that may ensue.

Where exactly are they going to shove that chilli?

Thehooperman said:

The Telephone preference service usually does the trick as Gramaisc suggested. If you state you are on the TPS then ask them how they got your number so that you can report them they usually hang up straight away.

Also if you are answering unknown cold callers they know the number is an active number and gets added to all sorts of calling lists.

Another trick I do is to tell the caller I am putting them on hold, put some music on, place my phone next to the speaker and bugger off to do something else instead. If nothing else it wastes the caller's time and money. They tend to not call again.

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I once blew a sportswhistle loudly down the phone, but it backfired on me . They then kept constantly ringing the phone for days on end. Ended up changing my number in the end !

I have to keep warning hubby not to answer like he does at work with " Hello, **** speaking " . Once they've got his name there will be no stopping them.

littleme said:

Hope it wasnt a Green one!

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I couldn't really see the colour, it was nearly dark, just two distinctive headlights getting bigger in the mirror accompanied by the squeal of tyres.

insomnia

arthur said:

insomnia

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Ditto

Went to see Murder On The Orient Express in town last night. Enjoyable. I rarely watch films, even more rare is a trip to the cinema.