Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for all the days news. And if youve been missing Paul, then hes back from his holidays tonight at the usual time of 6.30pm.
I gather that quite a few new people have signed up to the Levy Letter over the past three or four days, so if youre one of those, then thank you very much indeed and welcome to you. Every day, round about this time, youll get your daily letter from me. If you want to write to me about anything at all, or if theres something you think we should be doing on the programme, or should talk about on the programme, or a story youve got that you think wed be interested in, then drop me a line right now. Itll come straight to me if you write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nuisance Phone Calls I was talking last week about unwanted telephone calls thats calls from cold sellers ringing up and I know from speaking to my own mother, that people who are elderly or are at home all day, get really troubled with these calls. Those of us who are out all day at work tend to miss the worst of it, I think. Well, several emails on this, all telling me about an organisation that you can get in touch with, who stop these phone calls. I dont know if that works or not. Theres a note here from Phil, In todays letter you talk about ways to deal with nuisance telephone calls. Being disabled, I spend most of my time at home and was getting fed up with these calls. But then somebody told me about the Telephone Preference Service, TPS. This service is free and independent and costs you nothing to subscribe to. I found them by typing TPS into my search engine and it gives you some details. If I remember correctly, they sent me a registration form to fill in and return to them. It! took two to three weeks to set up and Ive had no problems since then. So there you are. Get in touch with the Telephone Preference Service if you want to get rid of nuisance cold callers and that should stop it. PC As you know, there have been numerous PC stories in the papers, particularly, this last three or four months. Theres been some classic stories just recently, one of which was the television programme, which banned showing conkers being played by two boys at school, but allowed two boys kissing in a gay kiss, because it was only a quick peck apparently. Well another story I read about at the weekend, you may have seen this too, a head teacher has been branded barmy after she banned hot cross buns from her school, afraid that she would run the risk of offending religious minorities. The lady concerned, Tina Jackson, has become embroiled in a political correctness gone mad row after ordering that the centuries old cross be removed from hot cross buns supplied to the school in Ipswich. Again, these stories just keep on coming dont they? Well, if youve heard of a similar sort of story in your part of the world, then do drop me a line and let me know. Mutton Mutton is back on the menu. Well, it will be if Prince Charles gets his own way. Hes now joined the chef, Brian Turner (the celebrity chef, who we had on the programme last week) to launch a club dedicated to mutton. I have to say that Im not sure that I know what mutton is. Although, Im sure now Ive said that, that lots of people will tell me. Mutton dressed up as lamb is the expression isnt it? Anyway, Im reading this and it says the meat from sheep that are more than two years old is a favourite of the Prince, but has become unfashionable in recent years with the availability of year young lamb. Well, now Brian Turner and Prince Charles have formed the Mutton Renaissance Club, which aim to bring together those, who produce, process and sell it. So there you are, what are your views on mutton and tell me what exactly is the definition of mutton do let me know! And food we will be doing quite a lot on food on the programme this year. If youve got any food stories, then do let me know. Levy Letter If there is someone you know, who is still not signed up to the Levy Letter and they would like one, then we have special competitions in the Levy Letter every now and then to win tickets to go see shows or concerts. These competitions dont appear anywhere else other than in the Levy Letter, so if you want them to sign up then tell them to go to either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, click on Levy Letter and follow the instructions through. David Gray Weve got a special competition for Levy Letter readers and its to win a pair of tickets to go see David Gray in concert. All youve got to do is to answer this question. In which 1999 film, did David Gray make a cameo as a pub singer? A clue here for you he also wrote the title track for the film, which is on his hit album, White Ladders? So, if you think you know which film he starred in and wrote the song for, then let me know. The address to write to is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boss Winning a promotion or pay rise could hinge on whether your boss is a seagull or a hedgehog! Workers, who correctly identify the type of manager they have, stand a much better chance of career success, according to research. While a boss, like David Brent, Ricky Gervais character in The Office, is probably in a category of his own, psychologists claim that most managers fit into one of five distinct types of boss. So which is your boss? Seagulls they work in fast-paced jobs and fly in to situations without knowing the background. The Diplomats have good people skills and regard morale building as a crucial part of their role. Invisible Managers they rarely appear in the office and send other people to meetings and handle most of the business by email. The Hedgehogs theyre prickly and they become defensive when challenged. The Gatekeepers are business leaders, who have made it to the top from the shop floor and are often wary of change. So, which type of boss is yours! ? Talking of Ricky Gervais I was lucky enough to be given for Christmas a Ricky Gervais box set, the complete series of Extras. Extras was a comedy in the Autumn last year, which had mixed reviews really, in which Ricky plays an extra trying to get on in the acting world. And if you saw it for the first time and you maybe werent sure, then its certainly worth watching again. There are some great cameos by some well-known people, including Ross Kemp, who was in the very first one, and Kate Winslet, she was very good and of course Les Dennis. If it does come on the TV again, or if you can buy the DVD, it is worth watching. Its very good! Grimsby Just a reminder that if you know someone, who lives or works in the Grimsby area and they would like to come along on Thursday, then Paul and I will be in the Freshney Place Shopping centre between 11am and 1pm to meet and chat with you. Our sofa will be there and well have two hours to do nothing, but chat away. So if you want to come along, then well be in Grimsby, between 11am and 1pm at the Freshney Place shopping centre on Thursday! I look forward to seeing you there. Well, thats it from Mondays Levy Letter. Have a very good day. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm and look out for your Levy Letter tomorrow! Bye for now Peter And for the latest news and more where you live, go to: http://bbc.co.uk/humber and http://bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the BBC Look North newsletter, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthhull/newsletter/newsletter_index.shtml, enter your email address in the unsubscribe box. 1.94.4
