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I have been succcessful in doing things today, if your definition of successful includes doing a lot of laundry (and hanging it outside to dry in the sun and the wind) and making a start on homework. I have been doing a section of questions on the Fair Trading Act 1986, which I am starting to get tired of. Two questions left to answer:

6. Jennifer Eccles owns a jeans shop. She notices a drop in her sales figures. On investigation, she finds that this has coincided with the opening of a shop down the road by Gene Bank called “Gene’s Jeans”. In the shop window there is a prominent sign: “We sell jeans at factory prices.” Jennifer knows this is untrue. Can she do anything about it under the Fair Trading Act? Quote references to relevant sections in your answer.

7. Sally Forth sees an advertisement by Fast and Cheap Travel Limited which states: “Cheapest air fares to Sydney for the Games - $349 return.” Sally rushes into Fast and Cheap Travel Limited but is told that flights left from Auckland and she would have had to pay her own way to and from Auckland. In any event, all tickets at that price had been sold two weeks before. Sally is very angry because the advertisement had appeared in the previous night’s newspaper. Advise Sally whether any breach of the Fair Trading Act has occurred and what, if any, remedies she may have. Quote references to relevant sections in your answer.


I think I'll go make banana-chocolate chip muffins instead.

It's ten past eleven, and I haven't updated for about two weeks, so I shall ramble. There will be much on roleplaying; read or do not read as you please.

( Lace & Steel and other roleplaying thoughts )

I think a random dude tried to pick me up at the busstop after work drinks on Friday night. I have to admit, this was when I was waiting for the 8.20pm bus, and I was more than slightly inebriated, thanks to the above work drinks, and quite a few glasses of a very nice sav. So he introduced himself, and I introduced myself, and because I was didn't feel like reading on the bus, we chatted until he got off at Kelburn. I mentioned roleplaying as a deterrant see-what-you-make-of-this kinda thing, and he said he used to roleplay, so I mentioned Kapcon and NZRag, and talked a lot about writing LARPS. I think I scared the crazy downstairs neighbour lady who was sitting behind me on the bus, though. For some reason, I can't bring myself to care.

I have Pear, Cardamon and Sultana cake in the oven. It is my entry for the Bake-Off at work, and while I'm sure it will turn out really well, and look great, and all that, I'm also starting to angst about whether or not it will turn out well enough, and maybe I should have tried doing minature fruit pies instead or mocha cupcakes instead or something. It should be cooked soon, then I glaze it with honey, wait twenty minutes, take it out of the tin, set it to cool, and then I can go to bed.

When I've been home today, until I finished it, I've been reading Two Household IV by MadMartha, a Harry/Ron novel length fic. It's very good, very well written, not very smutty, but the main thing I really like about this series is the way that she expands on wizarding culture in a way that I don't know if JK would like, but that kinda fits in with what I understand of social history in the upper classes, and from what I understand of general wizarding behaviour. It's beautifully written, and most of the traditions make sense, and not always in a these-wizards-are-crazy sort of way.

When it comes to reading fic, I talk a lot about the slash, and about the smut, and the porn, and yet, those things aren't what I primarily read fic for. I read a lot of fic for the same things that I seek in published novels - good editing, writing, good plot, length. Perferably in that combination. I've just found, and this is probably thanks to HP being my first major fandom, that it's a lot harder to find all of the above in het fics. You have to search through a lot more dross to get something mildly entertaining. And dammit, if I've read through a characters torturous relationship, then I want to get the smut payout at the end. I'm a sucker for angst with a happy ending. I like happily ever afters, even if they're completely unrealistic.

...I might go and reread The God-Eaters, which isn't fanfiction, but is really really good, and I read it for the plot and the writing more than anything. One day, I might get it printed out and bound.