I've always liked a wee Bond film. Like most people of my age (you know who you are), my favourite is Sean Connery.

I met him many times on the plane and both he and his wife were very pleasant and polite. Funny thing is he never once asked for a Martini, shaken or stirred!

Probably my next favourite would have to be Pierce Brosnan, I fair fancied him. He reminds me of an old boyfriend in both looks and mannerisms. The current Bond, Daniel Craig, doesn't really do it for me but nevertheless plenty of my pals wouldn't pass him in a dark alley!

Last week saw the unveiling of some details about the new Bond adventure, to be called 'Spectre'. Some old faces were there and, of course, there was the parading of the current Bond girls. A bit of a stooshie was made regarding the introduction of the 'oldest' Bond girl ever to star in the films and have James Bond actually fancying her. The Italian actress in question is 50-years-old and called Monica Bellucci. She looks 25-years-old but that spoils the story.

I don't know what age Bond is supposed to be but Daniel Craig is 47. So what exactly is unusual or strange about an almost 50-year-old man being attracted to a 50-year-old woman? A middle-aged man running about after young girls in this day and age is surely much more creepy!

Zero Tolerance of Nuisance Calls

Three times this week I've been up in the loft pulling down the decorations and have had to climb down to answer the phone to a nuisance call. Per day I receive at least five of these pest calls, ranging from the automated recorded voice and polite voices from India to the local cold calls.

Having watched so many TV shows exposing the nuisance call and advising how to deal with them I have tried various approaches. I have listened to the seller and then politely declined to proceed and firmly asked to be taken off their call list. This simple request has on many occasions been met with a slamming down of the phone. So now I have adopted the zero tolerance approach of as soon as I hear an office background or the start of the usual claptrap I hang up.

According to a new investigation by 'Which' magazine the number of nuisance calls in the UK has reached a staggering one billion, with many households enduring over five calls a day.

There are suggestions that the law will be amended to make prosecution of the companies which spawn these nuisance calls easier. What is required is a tough and accessible mechanism to prosecute not just the companies but the shifty and shady bosses who pay their staff thruppence ha'penny and a balloon to annoy, confuse and often con elderly recipients of these calls which are never solicited in the first place.

Widespread advice is required for ordinary citizens to be able to screen and/or block nuisance callers but in this age of technological wonderment surely the telecommunication companies have to get their scissors out of their tool boxes and cut the lines of the annoying and potentially criminal companies.

Do I sound annoyed about nuisance calls? You bet I am.