Rain, rain, go away

It's a gloomy Saturday morning, with the most exciting thing I have to look forward to being sewing up my trousers later on. Oh yeah, I know how to live.

In the meantime, O Wise and Wonderful Flist, I find myself in need of some advice:

~ I want a new rucksack for work. There's nothing actually wrong with mine, except that it's gone a bit shabby and I want something smarter. But buying rucksacks is proving surprisingly difficult. Anyone know of good shops for this kind of thing? I don't really want to pay more than £25 ideally, which I'm thinking may be what's tripping me up :S

~ Does anyone have any experience of free web-hosts? I'm about 1/3 of the way towards having a website, thanks to my awesome husband, but I currently don't have anywhere to put it. I only want to put my stories on it, so I don't need oodles of space, and while I can find lots of 'Free Web Host' lists, I'd rather go with someone recommended if possible.

~ Do any of you read Merlin fic? Do you have any recs? (not for me, btw - just passing on a request) Merlin/Arthur preferred, but anything good, really. Thanks :)