I hate phones as well [mainly the mobile] but there's a good reason for it which I won't go into here. I'd rather text. My younger daughter is the same.
I do quite like p*ssing off the odd scammer on the landline if I'm in the mood for it though. Despite being registered with TPS I can still get scammers. Your new phone sounds like a good solution @Ergates, but I rarely use the landline now.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Spammers and scammers calls are voice activated, if you don’t say hello they cut off. Anyone else will say hello, you there? We never use it, Daughter and I do video calls.
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My OH rarely thinks to check the number that's calling, but tends to wait for the person at the other end to speak ... so does his mother .... sometimes I have to tell him to speak 🤣
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News headlines of modern times. Labour under pressure to back taxing the rich to fund social care rather than increasing taxes for people like nurses to pay for it. It's almost surreal. Meanwhile Bezos is pissing his billions away to muck about in space while poaching careworkers away from nursing homes for better paid jobs packing boxes in factories.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Spammers and scammers calls are voice activated, if you don’t say hello they cut off. Anyone else will say hello, you there? We never use it, Daughter and I do video calls.
That's true most, but not all, of the time. I had one recently where I said nothing and eventually got the 'Hello'. I just said 'Hello' back and got 'Is that the householder?' I said 'what do you want' and they repeated the question and I repeated mine. They then made the mistake of saying "I don't want anything!" which gave me the perfect opportunity to say "Well you wasted you time calling didn't you" and hanging up. Didn't waste a huge amount of their time but I suspect they were still p'd off.
I've mentioned previously the saga of getting Building Regs Certification for the new solid lightweight roof on our conservatory. Building Regs guy finally came this afternoon - what a waste of time! He asked me what the construction was because he'd never seen a roof conversion before. I said I didn't know but the guy who came round during the work saw it before it was all plastered and painted and passed it at that stage. "What's this rod for?" 'This rod' is the straining cable between the two sides of the roof! This guy is supposedly trained to do this. In the end I pulled up information on the internet where he saw a heading "LABC Certification" and said it must be ok to get Certification. The heading, had he followed it was to an explanation of what LABC Certification is. He also asked if somebody came out to measure up before the work was done. How the **** would they know the size otherwise? Then he asked if there were lead flashings and if it had leaked. This in-depth, expert check has cost the builder just under £300 and this pillock will be doing half a dozen of them a day. I don't understand how the council can be short of money!!
We had a soakaway fitted to take rain water from the roof of the house (once the large water butt is full!). Beyond the soakaway we fitted a field drain down to the bottom of the garden for the rare occasions when the rain is so heavy that the soakaway can't cope. The building inspector who came to approve this set up wanted us to pressure test the field drain!!!!
We had a soakaway fitted to take rain water from the roof of the house (once the large water butt is full!). Beyond the soakaway we fitted a field drain down to the bottom of the garden for the rare occasions when the rain is so heavy that the soakaway can't cope. The building inspector who came to approve this set up wanted us to pressure test the field drain!!!!
I remember a letter in Country Life where a guy was told by the planning inspector that he "couldn't possibly agree to changing this barn as it was one of the finest 17th Century barns he'd seen in his career" The farmer asked him to wait, came back with a photograph. "What's this ?" asked the inspector "My father building this barn in 1935"
OH was talking to a heritage officer about a refurbishment of a stables building for a client. Was told 'you can't touch the brick floor - that'll be 18th century.' OH said, it's engineering brick, can't be that old. HO wouldn't have it. OH pointed out the one with a date stamp of 1950s. HO left looking cross.
I have met some really good building inspectors and even one really good heritage officer. My favourite meetings are always the ones with the fire officer. Those guys are bonkers but invariably good at cutting through the carp
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I'd rather text. My younger daughter is the same.
I do quite like p*ssing off the odd scammer on the landline if I'm in the mood for it though.
Despite being registered with TPS I can still get scammers. Your new phone sounds like a good solution @Ergates, but I rarely use the landline now.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We never use it, Daughter and I do video calls.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's true most, but not all, of the time. I had one recently where I said nothing and eventually got the 'Hello'. I just said 'Hello' back and got 'Is that the householder?' I said 'what do you want' and they repeated the question and I repeated mine. They then made the mistake of saying "I don't want anything!" which gave me the perfect opportunity to say "Well you wasted you time calling didn't you" and hanging up. Didn't waste a huge amount of their time but I suspect they were still p'd off.
I really do wish I could say I'm surprised.
"What's this ?" asked the inspector
"My father building this barn in 1935"
I have met some really good building inspectors and even one really good heritage officer. My favourite meetings are always the ones with the fire officer. Those guys are bonkers but invariably good at cutting through the carp
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”