A free what?

Ste Marguerite
Yesterday's weather: coldest yet but sunny

We are a little fed up with cold callers phoning us. We've had two this week. The first lady was trying to persuade us that we had won a free gift each and only had to turn up at the salle de fêtes in our local town. She would send us an invitation. I declined saying that we were not available on the day she mentioned (today). On returning from our shopping expedition at lunch time we found the invitation in the post box. We have to turn up at 3pm and no earlier or later, to profit from this wonderful offer of a gift gourmet basket for me and a couple of bottles of wine from him.

Well, if there's no such thing as a free lunch, then there's no such thing as a free gift either! The invitation doesn't tell us what sort of presentation we would have to sit through as, of course, we would have to.

We're staying put this afternoon.

When the second cold call came in I was obviously a little more alert and as soon as I twigged that silence when I picked the phone up followed by a background babbling, I just hung up. Just for the record if you are thinking of calling us we do not want our roof inspected, to attend a wine tasting, to win a 'free' holiday or anything else unsolicited.

Thank you.