Pretty much. I've bought him a kite for his birthday so you can thank me for this unseasonably calm weather. I might have to give it to him a week late just to avoid the disappointment.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I really hate this and it's happening more and more now. Someone moves to a rural village, rips out every plant on their property and lays hard surface boundary to boundary. The hedge at the front was forced on them by planning but I'd bet it gets ripped out in a few years and replaced with a fence.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Well I'm feeling quite curmudgeonly towards a rather breathless, female voice on an automated phone call for a Carmen. The previous owner was a lone man in his retirement and he lived here for more than 10 years. So there's no Carmen here for at least 10 years. So that's one negative. The voice simply sounds like a Marilyn Monroe singing happy birthday to a us president. That's a second negative in my book.
The other negative is that my partner is phone phobic. She'll call screen even when I tell her I'll need to call her from out and about and need her to answer. So whilst we both think the call is her parents it is always me who has to stop what I'm doing to answer. Then to find out it's a pest call is completely annoying.
Do those BT call screening phones work well or not?
Use an ansaphone or whatever the smart phone equivalent is. If the call is urgent, the message left will hopefully say "Help......" Even if your partner is phone phobic, I suspect she's sensible enough to know when it is vital to make a call whether to you or WHY If you are someone who checks their phone every few minutes, it shouldn't prove much of a problem - you can either rush to the scene of the emergency if you are close by or dial 999. If it isn't urgent or is someone you don't know, don't respond and waste your time. Most cold callers don't like an ansaphone system and soon give up.
I feel your pain with a phone phobic partner. My wife will pick the phone up and hand it to me even if it displays her sister's name on the display. If we get a call from a number we don't recognise I simply don't speak. A 'proper' caller will almost certainly say 'Hello' or similar, but cold callers generally just hang up. One thing that is becoming more problematic is 'spoofed' numbers using our dialling code. It's easy to assume those are genuine. I still tell them to Foxtrot Oscar when I discover what they are.
We recently bought a new phone for our landline. It has a built in answerphone, but it also reads out loud the number that is calling. If it’s a number that we’ve stored in the memory, it will read out for example “daughter, home” or “son, mobile” and we can rush to answer it. If it’s just a number or an area code we don’t recognise, we leave it to go to answerphone. Usually it’s a cold call, and just hangs up. If a message is being left, we can still hear it, and there’s is also the facility to block the number if we want. It’s been really useful. Don’t want to look like I’m advertising, but I’ll post more details if you want. I think we got it from John Lewis, or maybe Argos.
Talk talk, phone rings,tells me the caller,I can also hear them,then decide whether to speak to them this once,block them,once or permanently, friends, family, insurance company etc allowed. The nice man's voice tells callers the phone is being screened by Talk Talk. I used to have countless foreign voices daily telling me they were calling from Talk Talk or my "broadband company" in the 2 years we've had it,not one single scammer. My hubby is phone phobic, people seem to think it's weird or unusual. He won't make calls, doesn't (obviously) have a mobile. The number calling shows on the phone,but unless it's mine,he won't recognize it. I have rung him at home a couple of times and he's known I'm ringing. I see in the papers it says landlines are going,he wanted to get rid of ours anyway,he will never use a mobile,so I said how do I contact him in emergency or if I am held up somewhere,or he needs to contact me. There are no phone boxes near here.
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The other negative is that my partner is phone phobic. She'll call screen even when I tell her I'll need to call her from out and about and need her to answer. So whilst we both think the call is her parents it is always me who has to stop what I'm doing to answer. Then to find out it's a pest call is completely annoying.
Do those BT call screening phones work well or not?
If you are someone who checks their phone every few minutes, it shouldn't prove much of a problem - you can either rush to the scene of the emergency if you are close by or dial 999.
If it isn't urgent or is someone you don't know, don't respond and waste your time. Most cold callers don't like an ansaphone system and soon give up.