What is hacking you off today?

[MK Shrimper]

Buy a new phone. The one we have just bought can be set up to give a busy tone to anyone who rings with a withheld number.

Oooo. Might look into that myself.

 

[RHB]

Buy a new phone. The one we have just bought can be set up to give a busy tone to anyone who rings with a withheld number.

Thanks for the thought LB, we can do that with our handsets now, unfortunately we have relatives and friends who have ex-directory numbers which come up as withheld.

 

[londonblue]

Thanks for the thought LB, we can do that with our handsets now, unfortunately we have relatives and friends who have ex-directory numbers which come up as withheld.

So do we. We've accepted that when they call us they have to "un-hide" their numbers or not get through.

 

[MK Shrimper]

MK Jnr now has "night terrors" which means groans and howls in her sleep throughout the night. She wakes up fresh as a daisy, me I had to sleep downstairs on the sofa with ear plugs to make sure I was rested for work.

I got more sleep when she was a newborn :stunned:

 

[RHB]

So do we. We've accepted that when they call us they have to "un-hide" their numbers or not get through.

Is that easy to do?

 

[OldBlueLady]

MK Jnr now has "night terrors" which means groans and howls in her sleep throughout the night. She wakes up fresh as a daisy, me I had to sleep downstairs on the sofa with ear plugs to make sure I was rested for work.

I got more sleep when she was a newborn :stunned:

Lol, it'll get worse yet!!!

 

[Gremlin]

Her, and possibly a quiet phone line. Besides, she had trouble understanding my Romford dialect! Hopefully the face to face meeting will be more productive.

Nothing to do with her grasp on English then? And the real problem was one she shares with you.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Nothing to do with her grasp on English then? And the real problem was one she shares with you.

Which is.....? The face-to-face was indeed more productive so we got to where we needed to be.

 

[Gremlin]

Which is.....? The face-to-face was indeed more productive so we got to where we needed to be.

Your respective accents, rather than the understanding of the language.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Your respective accents, rather than the understanding of the language.

Yeah probably right.

 

[londonblue]

Is that easy to do?

Yes. From the BT Website:


To permanently withhold your number ring 0800 800 150.

To withhold your number on individual calls dial 141 followed by the phone number of the person you want to call.

If your number is permanently withheld and you want to forward it dial 1470 followed by the phone number of the person you want to call.

 

[RHB]

Yes. From the BT Website:


To permanently withhold your number ring 0800 800 150.

To withhold your number on individual calls dial 141 followed by the phone number of the person you want to call.

If your number is permanently withheld and you want to forward it dial 1470 followed by the phone number of the person you want to call.

Thanks LB. I would green you but it seems I have to spread it around a bit more first!

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Buy a new phone. The one we have just bought can be set up to give a busy tone to anyone who rings with a withheld number.

Couldn't tell me what phone you got and where from could you? We have so many cold calls I've been considering ditching the land line. Cheers

 

[londonblue]

Couldn't tell me what phone you got and where from could you? We have so many cold calls I've been considering ditching the land line. Cheers

My wife got it from John Lewis. It's a Gigaset. I think it was a Which? best buy. It's got all the features we wanted, but it feels quite cheap to the touch. That said, it works a treat, and with 2 young boys in the house even an expensive phone wouldn't last 2 minutes!

Click Here.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Nice one, thanks

 

[RHB]

Just back from Tesco Prince Avenue, people with the hump in motorised wheel chairs doing the 'ankle' run in narrow aisles.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Just back from Tesco Prince Avenue, people with the hump in motorised wheel chairs doing the 'ankle' run in narrow aisles.

Most of these can shop any bloody time of the day, why choose a time when people are on their way home from work???! Just had same thing happen at Morrisons.

 

[Uncle Leo]

The thieving slag who nicked some Panini stickers out of an envelope that I posted to a mate yesterday.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just heard that the Bill Wyman show that I'd got tickets for at the beginning of August in Cambrils has been cancelled.:angry:

That's a hatrick for this summer with Blondie's gig here last week also cancelled and Robert Plant's at Cap Roig also pulled.

Must be a crisis.:'(

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Just heard that the Bill Wyman show that I'd got tickets for at the beginning of August in Cambrils has been cancelled.:angry:

That's a hatrick for this summer with Blondie's gig here last week also cancelled and Robert Plant's at Cap Roig also pulled.

Must be a crisis.:'(

Pensioners, just can't trust them.