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Telephone sales people your calling is leaving me cold

October 20, 2011 By Ellen 11 Comments

Hot rage about cold callers I should start with a disclaimer: I once had a job selling over the phone. While I was a student I had to persuade people to get the Press and Journal delivered and as a reward they would get a free pen or clock. Not the toughest sell, but I […]

Filed Under: cold calling, Dyson, Is it me?, phone calls, sales, threat, TPS

Progress: the things my children won’t know

June 6, 2011 By Ellen 8 Comments

I’ve just got Boy Three ready for bed. These inefficient ablutions usually involve a lot of splashing and some bubbles.  This time he spied a mini bar of soap brought home from some hotel or other. “Wazzat?” he pointed.  “Soap,” I unwrapped it for him. It must have been there years.  He was baffled. He […]

Filed Under: phone calls, smoking, today's thought, trivia, washing

This week the only blackberry I found was in Ribena

March 31, 2010 By Ellen 2 Comments

Things I’ve learned from being in a communications drought. This week my mobile died – well actually the sim card did. You could call it the post Death of BlackBerry era. So I’ve been in a total phone free zone since Sunday. It’s been an interesting week and it’s only Wednesday. I learned that being […]

Filed Under: internet, other things I have learned, phone calls, texting, twitter

Social media: so much noise, only one pair of ears

March 23, 2010 By Ellen 8 Comments

Do you tweet, facebook, blog, email or text? Of course you do, we all do. But it’s all starting to get too much. It’s taking so long to keep on top of it all, the Panther of News is starting to call himself an internet widower. He’s over there on the sofa with Professor Cox […]

Filed Under: Facebook., family, internet, phone calls, readyforten, social media, texting, the internet, twitter

Dial S for subtext

March 2, 2010 By Ellen 5 Comments

I’ve been listening in to a few phone calls this week – you could say it’s something of a hobby. One of my earliest memories is lying in bed listening to my mother on the phone and trying to figure out who she’s talking to and what the topic is.It occurred to me that some […]

Filed Under: alex salmond, childcare, gender roles, phone calls

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