Power outage again
The guy came out the other day to measure up my granite worktops. He can fit them the first week in December, but that is when hubby’s daughter and friend come over, so we have put off the fitting until they leave, so it is being fitted the week before Christmas.
A couple of nights ago we had another power outage for 1.5 hours from about 8.15pm. No idea why as there was no adverse weather or anything – the mind boggles!
Although we have been here for over four months and have had a phone line for about 3.5 months we had not had a bill from Bell Canada. Yesterday I called them as I suspected that we should have had the quarterly bill by now.
It turns out that we should actually have had a bill every month and had actually missed three. They looked into the account and saw that the address had been taken down wrong and that was why we had not received any bills.
They are now sending out the bills again so we can see them and I paid the balance, over $200 whilst on the phone. We have also been put on another tariff, which will hopefully reduce our future costs. We knew the initial bills would be high, as we had to use the phone a lot when we first got here, it should even out now.
Talking of phones, I called my aunt and uncle in Spain yesterday (using Skype – much cheaper!) They were sitting out on the patio in mid 20C temps! I don’t think they can understand why we want to live in Canada, but we could not stand to have really hot weather all the time, it would send us mad and I would end up resembling a lobster.
Also, Spain is really backward with certain things, they have lived there for almost two years and still do not have a home address and have to use a post office box, neither do they have a phone line, they have to use cells all the time.
