If you used any sort of “point of sale” credit to pay for the kitchen, you will have lots of rights… worth investigating. The credit providing company are jointly liable for reparation.

My GP told me the whole don’t drink on antibiotics because it stops them working is complete pap – apparently it’s simply if you drink a bucket on antibiotics, which only an idiot would do, you are more likely to be sick, meaning the drugs are tossed out of your system. I asked this question just the other week when I had the chest infection, so that’s hot off the medical presses.

I had a few glasses of red wine during the week while I was taking mine and came to no ill at all. In fact, having the wine helped me sleep, which was probably the biggest help of all – night after night of lying awake coughing is not good!

After all, it’s not Gordon’s fault that the as-yet-unnamed company were a bunch of c**ts and screwed things up.

And the credit-card company should still get involved – on the rare occasions I’ve had cause to do this kind of thing, they’ve got involved for sums far less, and on things like where Ticket-bloody-Master have sent the tickets to the wrong address, and then made out it was my fault for having moved.

So I’d say it’s def worth getting them involved early, assuming it was paid on a c/c at all.

I’m drafting a letter tomorrow, to point out that all of this is because their surveyor didn’t do his job (as stated in the contract) and that we are without washing machine and cooker for the duration.

The electrician was a mistake, we were pleased that he said he’d do the work the next day, but the cash thing should’ve have flagged up with me, too much going on as I was back at work yesterday as well.