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Hi, Rusty!
Yes, that is as far as I ever got with the spam BT calls.
Best always to ignore anything even remotely suspicious!
Did you read the link that Cerasus put up?
Thank you for the answers, and the parsing, for those two clues.
I have never heard the word "winnow", nor did I know that an American cowboy is called a "roper"!
More new words!
Good that you have heard again from your son...... the photos sound terrific!
Have you ever been to Skye?

Hello, Elle!
Yes, I read Cerasus' link.
Not everyone would know not to press "1", though.
I am surprised you do not know "winnow".
I did not know "roper" but it looked good with the crossing letters.
Collins has it to do with a "lasso-user"!
The photos from Skye are super.
My daughter-in-law loves it there.
It is her first time there.
I've an idea they will come home tomorrow.
I am pretty sure she starts work on Thursday.
Yes, I know Skye.
I have a very good pal who comes from there.

Good morning, Rusty!
A pleasant walk this morning, with sunshine, and a temperature of 2C.
I was surprised to find out how big the Isle of Skye is, when I looked it up.
It is about three times the size of the IoM and more than four times the IoW...both of which I have visited.
Mis Peckwitt certainly liked it!
I have a few jobs to do today.......a prescription request to drop off at the doctor's surgery, and some shopping to do down in the High Street.
And I shall take out the dog again later......
First though.... a coffee and (an attempt at) the crossword !

Elle
The answer to your question regarding freezing computers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/04/30/windows-warning-microsoft-support-scammers-are-freezing-chrome-edge-and-firefox-browsers/#57c01c5b18f1

Thank you , Cerasus!

Good morning, Elle!
No frost today!
Cloud overhead.
Yes, Skye is a fair size.
Miss Peckwitt is in good company as regards folk liking Skye!
My son and daughter-in-law have just texted from Eilean Donan.
They are on their way home.

I had a new nuisance call today!
It was a very bad line with a message to do with Amazon Prime, which I could not make out.
Was from a Glasgow area code, if that means anything, and I suspect it doesn't.

Here are some words for your wee book !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-50476008

Rusty
see here
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/police-amazon-prime-scam-17160333

Hello, Cerasus!
Thank you kindly for the clip.
I do not use Amazon Prime but I have blocked the number anyway.
I feel sorry for those unwitting folk who have fallen for this scam.

I have never used Amazon but still I receive these sickening scams.

There is an excellent site where I always check out unknown numbers (which usually turn out to be fake and not from the area shown on the phone screen) https://who-called.co.uk/

The Amazon scam I received had a number starting with 0141 but no doubt came from some distant foreign country.