It has been a very leisurely week. A wedding in Cornwall followed by a trip out on Britain's canal network.
Near Yelvertoft
Welford Arm
Foxton Bottom Lock pound
So all in all not a huge amount of reading completed on Chapter 2 last week, and not a lot more expected this week either.
The reading that has been done has been interesting and not too difficult to understand, although remembering it may be a different matter as there are an awful lot of terms to get to grips with.
The book doesn't help in this respect and does it's best to confuse the reader (or at least me) by using the variables F & G to represent chocolate and crisps on page 55, and then on page 67 it changes and drink is represented by F and food by G. Why couldn't food have been represented by F, and drink by D? Surely that could only aid the reader fathom out what is going on, rather than have to keep flicking back to previous pages to remember what axis has been assigned what good. Its as though the OU is having a little joke at our expense.
This is the part of economics that should be the most interesting, determining what decisions consumers make and why so I am looking forward to getting further into the book. Also looking forward to the website opening this week and finding out who my tutor is - it's a bit like waiting for Christmas.
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