DODGY ELECTRICKS.Byline: Fiona Phillips Fiona Phillips (born 1 January 1961, Canterbury) is a journalist, broadcaster and television presenter. After leaving the University of Birmingham with a B.A. (Hons) in English she started her career in independent radio working for local stations County Sound, Hereward Radio and WHY do the utilities companies rarely read meters? Surely it couldn't be because by over-estimating our energy usage they can scrounge scrounge v. scrounged, scroung·ing, scroung·es Slang v.tr. 1. To obtain (something) by begging or borrowing with no intention of reparation: more money off us and have it sitting earning interest in their coffers instead of ours? And surely their bills haven't become increasingly complicated, so as to confuse con·fuse v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es v.tr. 1. a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off. b. us and prevent us from challenging their official figures? My dad's old house, as I informed his power provider, has been empty for seven months. Funny then that his last bill, from SWALEC, showed that he'd used considerably more energy this quarter than the previous one, which also showed a big increase from the one previous to that. Maybe there's a very clever, cold mouse living in his house.. |
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