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...is humungous in love.

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29.1.07 12:33
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Cheap

There's still a big clearance at As Seen On Screen but if you enter the discount code: graziainsider at the checkout, you get 20% off until Monday.

20.1.07 18:32
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Compensation

As I mentioned the other day, Cadbury were sending me a refund for my ordeal in having no Twirls in the tin, ahem, of Miniature Heroes. I was excited about this, as my mind was imagining receiving Cadbury vouchers for huge amounts, and apologetic letters, begging for my custom in the future, offering me a free tour of their chocolate factory, resulting in me owning the company a la Charlie Bucket.
Well I got a Cadbury voucher for £3 yesterday which brought my imagination down to earth with a bump. Daft old me.
I am going shopping later with Dad, and I'll buy Cadbury products while I am there, but I am considering what to get. Cadbury Christmas chocolate in the sale? I could get a stash, but if I have to eat anything else Christmassy I'll go mental, as soon enough we're celebrating the death of baby Jesus, never mind his birth. So I could get an Easter egg? Actually no, I am always disappointed by Easter eggs. The misleading packaging, and the chocolate tasting shite. So I'm thinking Variety fun size packs. Lots of different small chocolate bars?
I'm giving this too much thought.

12.1.07 15:10
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Know your consumer rights.

Yesterday, we had our belated Christmas dinner, as we didn't have one in Spain. My sister made a trifle, but alas, she had no Cadbury's Flake bars to crumble up and spinkle on top!
Could our 10-day-late Christmas be possibly ruined?
I had an idea.

"Hey, I got a box of Miniature Heroes for Christmas! Use the mini Twirl bars in that! Twirl is (slightly) crumbley like Flake, and if anything, nicer! Crisis averted!"

We opened the box of MiniH, and tipped them all out to pick out the Twirls, but disaster! There was only ONE.
ONE.
Well it wasn't even worth it. We put it back, along with the other chocolates, who were smug at their plentiful quantities. Yeah Picnic, you can be smug, but I always give you to my Dad as you taste shit.
I was furious, and I said how I was going to complain.
"Lucy, you can't complain over there being just one Twirl in the box. You'll get laughed at."
"Oh yeah, that's what they said to The Beatles, and Leonardo DaVinci. Probably."
A day and a phonecall to Cadbury later, and I am receiving a refund. Hurrah!
Um, however, in the phone conversation to the operator, I kind of said that I had a tin, not a box. In my utter fury I exagerrated my problem.

"What size tin is it? It should say it at the bottom"
"I'll have a, um, look, I'll just put the phone down a sec!"
"Okay!"
*furiously googles 'Miniature Heroes tin' on closeby laptop*
"*cough* Erm, 2.2kg?"
"Great, and what's the expiry date?"
"July."
"Okay Miss Chintz, I'll send you a refund!"

Always be aware of your consumer rights, particularly with chocolate.

5.1.07 13:38
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Yay

Ah, it's great to be home. It's freezing, but I don't care one bit. I'm in my PJs and dressing gown, drinking hot chocolate, eating Christmas chocs and I'm onlineand doing homework (due tomorrow) like everything should be.

Although Spain wasn't really our thing, we had some good time:

This was a lovely cake I ate. It was basically a mini mountain of fluff.

New Years Eve.

A trick my sister's boyfriend did with a napkin.

Now I'm back I'm finishing a load of homework for a deadline tomorrow. We're having a belated Christmas dinner tomorrow evening, as we didn't get one in Spain, then on Friday I'm going out with Nic and Ash for cocktails. Hurrah! It's good to be home.

3.1.07 14:35
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Nightmare

Oh this just keeps going on and fucking on.
Got an email from the student finance exec this morning:
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The issue for January will run as planned. I am the editor for the paper until further notice. I expect you all to work to the way you have been but now require you to inform me of all progress, and to check the final copy before print, so that we can work together smoothly to produce a quality student newspaper.
The first meeting for the paper will be on the 10th January. I would appreciate it if you both email me with regards to what the progress there has been so far with the edition in terms of stories and ideas. Please can you also forward this message to any other members of shu print.
If you can let me know how available you are during January as well and also who can attend the first meeting on Wednesday 10th at 4pm at the students union.
I look forward to working with you over the next year.

Kind Regards,

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What the fucking hell? So basically, we'll be doing EVERYTHING and she'll just have to look at it every so often to check it's fine? And as she says the January issue is going as planned, but as editor she is not doing any newspaper work, so how are we supposed to cope with all that on top of our normal Uni work with 4 massive deadlines for that month?
I'm sort of tempted to jack it all in and start something small and new, like a fucking magazine and not have anything to do with the fucking union at all. Bastards. Who made her editor? This is ridiculous.

21.12.06 12:00
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WTF?

Just got a text from the editor - she's been suspended because of the article. The union is holding an investigation, and until it's sorted, it's up to me to do it now, but she's going to keep me posted on any developments.
I don't know what to do/think. I just texted the feature ed. about it, and he simply said "oh my god" and that's what I'm thinking. I absolutely have no idea what to do. This is just mad.

20.12.06 13:06
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