Congratulations .. You Have Just Earned A Boycott!

Just had a 'phone call, a grating (feel the grin) North American "happy holidays" type voice. One is aware that it's a recorded voice but, can't resist the urge to tell 'em to get stuffed before slamming the phone down. "Congratulations", they say, "you have just won...." and one can only feel a gnawing pain in the deepest recess of the guts at such a cloying, ingratating voice.

Unsurprisingly the caller's number is never available when one tries 1471 in order to know what firm to report. Our phone number is ex-directory, we are registered to be excluded from any direct marketing lists, but still the intrusion of North America into our lives cannot be avoided!

This kind of telephonic intrusion should be tackled even more strenuously than spam e-mail. If anyone really wants to give me a prize or present ... please deliver it direct, no strings attached; money is always welcome, as is anything we can sell for a reasonable monetary return. We will not under any circumstances reply to any unsolicited phone calls, mail or e-mail .... the likely response is to boycott any company responsible for this despicable practise.

Here endeth the lesson!