One of the individuals who can’t look forward to this 12 months’s winter to be over can be Taiwanese TV presenter-actress Iris Tseng.
Tseng moved to London after getting married to a British diplomat in 2017.
Understandably, the mom of two saved the heater operating to hold her household heat at her London home throughout the chilly climate.
However, this ended along with her being shocked when her month-to-month electricity invoice got here and the quantity she incurred was £569 (RM3,008).
Sharing a photograph of her electricity invoice, Tseng revealed that the quantity was 10 occasions larger than what she beforehand paid. And this was after a £200 (RM1,057) authorities subsidy.
She additional added that the price of electricity in Britain went up due to “war, inflation, and a shortage of energy resources”.
Her husband additionally apparently remarked that the massive sum was as a result of Tseng needed to hold their home the identical temperature as in Taiwan.
To which, as translated by a Singaporean portal, Tseng sassily instructed her husband: “My dear, do you know that feeling of waking up in the middle of the night due to the minus five degrees cold – I really hate it. (And it makes me) want to book a plane ticket back to Taiwan immediately. You wouldn’t gain anything if I froze to death, right?”
Nonetheless, she determined to go straightforward on operating the heater these days and solely does it earlier than going to mattress.
Another step she’s taken to cut back that exorbitant quantity is to purchase an electrical blanket.
But, she mentioned, because of this “I’m now continuously mendacity underneath the electrical blanket on the mattress, and I hardly transfer at all”.
