Moody Blue

When I lived in Shetland I never got a single spam call, but since moving I get inundated. Mainly to do with boilers and green energy. It started when I joined NPower. I've now bought one of those BT 8500 Call blocker phones and it's great, although it's annoying the purchase price has dropped quite a bit since I bought it in June. You need caller ID for it to work properly and I'll get that when I switch from BT later this month. I've even had spam/sales calls off BT themselves, although they did stop when I impolitely told them to! I started reporting all the spam calls to Ofcom on their website. However, you have to give them your phone number and soon after I started to get lots of marketing spam phone calls as well. So it seems even Ofcom share your details with all and sundry. The worse culprits are a single energy company that use 40-50 different numbers and lots of different company names to call you, so they're difficult to block. They are known spammers and have previously been reported as "unsavoury" characters. They have allegedly been in court on a number of occasions (or so it's reported on the internet). They phone nearly every day and often on more than one occasion. They now realise they can't get through to me during the day and so have started calling in the evening and weekends, even Sundays. On one occasion it was a person and not just a recorded message; I tried to tell them to stop calling me and take me off their list, but as soon as I started talking the individual on the other end of the phone was so rude he simply talked over me. They have been calling me regularly for a year now. I've now set my phone to not even ring so I don't even hear the phone, everyone has to leave a message or get ignored. Auto callers can't leave messages because you have to press a key on the phone. Unfortunately it did mean I missed out on a cancelled hospital appointment though, because by the time I'd returned the call the cancelled appointment had been given to someone else. When my BT contract ends and I switch to another company in a few weeks I'll get caller ID and probably ask for a new phone number, Either way I'll be able to reset to phone to ring again and that'll allow me to answer numbers I want and block numbers I don't, so they can never phone me again. Unfortunately if I keep my present number the 'worse culprits' will just keep calling by setting up new phone numbers that I haven't yet blocked. All that just because I need a phone line and the internet and people constantly pester me and try to sell me things I don't want.

I had to leave Shetland earlier this year. No suitable houses to buy at reasonably affordable prices meant I could no longer afford to live there.

Sir Matt lost arguably his best team to an air crash. I think without that tragedy, Sir Matt would equal Sir Alex. David Moyes stats are more equivalent to Ron Atkinson's, but David Moyes inherited the runaway champions of England, not a bunch of also-rans I agree the players let him down, but he let the players down. He seemed to constantly undermine their confidence, probably none more so than Patrice Evra - a magnificent servant to Old Trafford over many years.

I have been a Manchester United fan for 40 years and my dad for more than 75 years. Born and bred in that part of the world, I lived in Trafford for a very long time. In most other walks of life and employment, anyone who performs so poorly over a period of 10 months would be sacked. As a football manager earning £80,000 a week why should the rules be relaxed for him. He was tactically inept. Look at the home game against Fulham, 81 crosses and we drew 2-2. We only scored 3 goals against the top teams in the whole season. His record against the top teams whilst Everton manager was equally poor and Roberto Martinez is now showing Everton also underperformed for many years. If you simply look at the financial impact of his appointment, it is catastrophic. £27m for Fellaini and he's hopeless, £37m on Mata and can anyone explain what role Moyes had planned for him in the team, a new £25m 5 year contract for Nani, £250m wiped off the company shares value, no Champions league resulting in a £50m loss of footballing income next year and then there is the impact of sponsorships of shirts, loss of TV income, loss from shirt and DVD sales etc On top of all that and even more damning is, 'Manchester United were boring to watch' Sir Alex was an unbelievable football manager, but a great business man....I think not. He made quite a few mistakes throughout his career, the "Chosen One" has to be his worse. The club was right to sack him.

Some years ago I had personal experience of defending myself when I was attacked. He got hurt and I didn't, but the subsequent trial was very stressful. The outcome was favourable to me, but I would not feel comfortable defending myself again. You almost feel it's best to get hurt and hope it's not too bad and then let the law take it from there. Looking at the Pistorius trial the prosecutor is pushing the issue of he shot a gun at someone, whether that was Reeva Steenkamp or indeed an intruder. The question of self defence has to be debatable because the intruder was behind a locked door and Pistorius had a loaded weapon. Just how much danger could he have been in. Another major question is why didn't he ask who was in the locked toilet. "Who is there I have a loaded gun!" would surely have brought some response from the now deceased; again whether it was Reeva or an intruder. Pistorius' self defence argument appears very weak, at least on the surface. All that said, South Africa is a far more dangerous environment than British people are use to and so the innate reaction to potential threats would also be different to ours and probably more extreme.

My gate was blown off its hinges and also a notice asking for my bruck box lid to be closed properly to avoid damage in the high winds, was also blown away.

Wouldn't live anywhere else? ............Oh, I would!

I don't usually write comments, but thank you to Trout for keeping us informed regarding the situation and more importantly for getting things sorted out. Fortunately it's not your livelihood, but the hassle it's put you through must have been very stressful. Thankfully you weren't all dependent upon me to sort it out. Technology started to baffle me when they incorporated a music player into my mobile phone.