every time I give a taxiing call straight away I always get the controller wanting me to repeat it....
so what to do... repeat the whole thing every time or just give a short burst of ABC IFR taxi, then you know they are listening and ready to copy???
If Airservices staff decide that they want a prompt before the full taxi call (or departure report, for that matter) let them change AIP. We shouldn't be deciding for ourselves what call is appropriate. Putting it another way, the more they get annoyed with a full taxi call out of the blue the quicker they'll change it, like they did with the Position Report.