We are a bit happier with the kitchen worktops now, the black granite looks quite smart with the oak cupboards. Also light blue tiles have been chosen for the downstairs bathroom, which is lucky as we had been buying light blue accessories for it!

We are both really worried that things will go according to plan as things seem to be going a bit too well at the moment, surely something has to go wrong at some point? I just hope we get the mortgage as promised by the Mortrgage Advisor. He seemed pretty convinced it wouldn’t be a problem. We go on holiday on July 8th, so I hope it is all sorted by then, I don’t want to be worrying for 2 weeks while we are in France.

We are calling in this evening to see the actual colours, but judging by the black granite I have seen browsing the net, I am not hopeful. If we don’t like it i’ll kick up a stink, but I doubt it will do any good, they have already ordered the units.

On another note, I spoke to the mortgage advisor and solicitior yesterday and got things moving with both of them. The solictior needs something called a proforma from Crest, but when I asked them to send it they said Head office would send it, but they didn’t give me much confidence that it would be done very quickly…. We only have 28 days to get all the paperwork sorted so I hope they pull thier finger out. FYI, 28 days is a Crest deadline.