All sorted, I refunded the money

Just having to wait at home for them when I have better things to do

I'm just thinking more so about the hassle the buyer has caused. As long as I am not bound by any laws legally.

Hello, I sold a 4 month old hamster last night including full enclosure and all accessories (water bottle, food dish, wheel, toys etc.) privately on Gumtree. The buyer came around to my house and I briefed her on everything there was to know on how best to look after her (the hamster) and she paid the £10 and took her away. Today I got a less than convincing story via text saying she can't look after the hamster anymore because someone has fallen ill in a different country. I said if need be, I will take the hamster back in so the buyer is dropping her off back to mine tonight. Am I under any obligation to give her the £10 back? This has caused me considerable hassle having to wait at home (yesterday and tonight) for her to come around etc. To my understanding, as I am not a business, there is no Distance Selling Regulation or anything like that and the buyer's change of mind has no legal substance to warrant a refund?

I today received a ticket for parking somewhere I have been parking for six months. Last year, CEOs told me of three roads of which the Traffic Act had expired on, whether it was a deal with a local university in relation to a large car park inaccessible due to construction work, they don't know, but they said you could put your car there without it being ticketed, 3 individual CEO's told me this same information last year. I have parked on 1 of the 3 roads (but always the same one usually in or around the same location on the road) since last year to now, and received a ticket today saying that it Parked in a Restricted Street During Prescribed Hours. It also says I was parked on such a street where I believe that street has ended and that I am infact on another street, I am very certain that there is a road sign name just before where I was ticketed today which would prove I was infact on a different road to that ticketed. However, in going off what the individual CEO's told me, I continued parking there no problems, each time whenever I saw a CEO this year, I always queried with them as to whether it was still okay to park there, as I was worried if the Traffic Act had expired in allowing them to govern such roads, what happens if they revalidate it, the CEO said they will give some grace period and give warning notes to cars for a few days before beginning to issue tickets once more etc, so I thought, okay, that's great, and continued parking there. Then I wasn't very happy when I got a ticket today. About 10 minutes after, I went to the petrol station and saw a CEO, I asked him whether it was because they had been given powers again to start ticketing that road and the other two also, he said he wasn't aware of it, and added that he the other day ticketed 5 cars to later be told by his control that they were on unenforceable roads and so he removed the tickets. I later phoned the parking services telephone number as I was faily confident in contesting it but just didn't want the hassle of letter writing in a legal way etc, the person on the other end of the phone denied everything and said he wasn't aware and was just going off text book sentances explaning how I read parking signs etc. He was shortly removed from the other end of my telephone and so I just finished writing my letter of appeal now. I am ending the letter in that I don't feel if it was a valid ticket, that it wasn't issued fairly in the fact that I was acting under information I went to seek from CEO's, or that we weren't given any notice if it was related to them being given powers to ticket in that area, and if I wasn't parked on that street and infact on the street mentioned on the ticket, then how come one time I asked a CEO whether it was okay to park there, which was where I got the ticket today, and he said it was fine, furthermore how come it has taken 6 months to get ticketed if it wasn't okay to park there. The CEO I spoke to at the petrol station added it could very easily be that the CEO that issued my ticket didn't know about it being unenforceable etc but that I just had to write in and contest it. Are they sufficient grounds to include in my letter? Or are they too much on the play of fairness which doesn't hold up enough on appeals? Thanks