Have just received our electricity bill. The price of electricity is now five times , yes 5 times, what we pay for a kilowatt hour in the UK. The increase was itemized in small print on page 4 of the supporting notes - naturally no pre-notification of the increase had been sent out or explanation posted on the company website. Consumer rights and protection are unheard of here. Guess it's the price you have to pay in a country with no nuclear power generating capacity, no gas or oil reserves of its own, and a reliance on Russia for its energy supplies. It could also be something to do with the freezing weather this winter which has kept us in much more than last year. Today we have seen minus seven and snow. The boyz have loved it but the little ones hip has started to play up in the sub zero temperatures.
Why I booked myself on the first flight from London to Rome at 7.30 this morning I can't for the life of me explain -particularly as there was a second flight at a much more reasonable 10.30. As heavy snow was forecast overnight it meant getting up at 4.00 and leaping in a cab from the hotel by 5.00 at the latest if I was to play safe and make it to the airport in time. Naturally, I was awake on the hour,every hour,all through the night looking out of the window and checking on the weather to see if there would be a replay of the storms that closed London down totally earlier in the week. The end result was that I got to the airport after a sleepless night at 5.00 and had two and a half hours to wait in the terminal- the roads were clear and deserted so the cab sailed straight through,I was the first at security and the flight was of course on time to the minute.
Have just received our electricity bill. The price of electricity is now five times , yes 5 times, what we pay for a kilowatt hour in the UK. The increase was itemized in small print on page 4 of the supporting notes - naturally no pre-notification of the increase had been sent out or explanation posted on the company website. Consumer rights and protection are unheard of here. Guess it's the price you have to pay in a country with no nuclear power generating capacity, no gas or oil reserves of its own, and a reliance on Russia for its energy supplies. It could also be something to do with the freezing weather this winter which has kept us in much more than last year. Today we have seen minus seven and snow. The boyz have loved it but the little ones hip has started to play up in the sub zero temperatures.
