Dotty I thought the completion date was something that's up for negotiation and it's normal for it happen at least two weeks after exchanging. If I've read you right then you've not exchanged yet? They may want to complete then, but as you long as you're committed to exchanging asap, then can't they be happy with waiting a little bit longer for completion?
Santander casually sent us a new mortgage offer in the post today - we've already signed the flipping previous offer and sent it to the solicitor. This had better not derail the exchange on Friday!
As a sidenote, does anyone else feel like they are the ones responsible for the house buying, rather than it being something done with DP/OH? My DP isn't away for work but I think he doesn't worry himself about details the way I do, so I've ended up taking on a lot of the work. It still annoys me that correspondence always has his name first, when I'm the one who does the communication! "Don't you worry your pretty little head about these things, Miss Mystic Falls, go off and amuse yourself looking at curtains...." (paranoid, much?)