OK guys let's see now:-
Get yourself one of those premium rate numbers, you know the ones that cost about two quid per minute, then buy an answering machine and switch it to answer only mode i.e. it plays the message tape but doesn’t give an opportunity of leaving a message. Then record your message in your best PA trained voice speaking nice and S-L-O-W-L-Y as follows:-
Hello this is Captain Nigel Smallpiece (or as appropriate), unfortunately Doris and myself are not able to take your call at the moment as we are out with our son Nigel junior and our daughter Bella who has now grown to an altitude of five feet. We have taken Rover the dog, Felix the cat and chirps the budgie with us, the weather today is overcast with a possibility of showers, thank you for calling.
But seriously, Draft in the new agreement (1999/2000) was not meant to cover overtime nor underestablishment, it was to cover rare unforseen events such as grounding of one aircraft type or flu epidemics, it was only supposed to be used infrequently and both sides understood that clearly. They are trying it on, say NO!