Keeping chain on door, ask callers from council or any other organization to pass through some identification. If you need your glasses to check this don't think it's rude to close door and go and get them. A genuine caller won't mind. If you're still not sure, ask caller to leave and tell them to write and make an appointment so that someone else can be with you next time they call. The basic rule is if you don't know person at your door don't let them in.

As part of Government's "Stop, Chain, Check" campaign, local councils, social services and Age Concern centers have further information they can provide to older people. They can also help with door viewers, chains and mirrors, and in certain circumstances, may be able to supply a personal attack alarm that connects through to a control center.

Never take your safety for granted. Criminals won't hesitate to take advantage of your generosity by pretending to need to use your telephone.

There are no 'black and white answers' yet we are taught to think there is a 'correct answer' as we take spiral staircase of education founded upon an industry of professional testing gurus. Emotional Intelligence is regarded with less than proper respect while soft spoken common sense waxes and wanes with passage of childhood into middle aged crazy behavior driven by mantras like 'He who dies with most toys - WINS!' To be in control of establishing questions makes one able to eliminate all aspects of thinking about alternatives and allows status quo to maintain course. No doubt I could continue for a long time engaging myself in dumping clichés and hackneyed phrases or jargon. The courts of this world are studies in obtuse and evil outcomes. Herewith or in last part, (chuckling as I think of legal briefs) I offer my opinion as only 'expert' on double-talk and salesmanship, with ethics. To know that you can get what you want and choose to give all you can, is what Jesus would want and I have enjoyed getting to know what is RIGHT!