That sounds ridiculous lavender. Are you talking to BT? I ask because they did similarly incompetent things to us over broadband when we moved somewhere rural.
Lists: sorry to hear about the hours on the phone to utilities companies. That's never fun. I recently nearly combusted as a result of having to keep phoning between British airways and American Airlines because both of them are unimaginably useless at customer service and cannot seem to coordinate anything even though their partnership means you'll be on the other's planes regardless who you booked with.
I hope the (seasonally appropriate) cupboard cleaning is done so, JT and golden.
Great to hear that offers have been accepted all round, Say. 
Sorry that you got a really low offer Peace. Hopefully you'll get offers that you find more reasonable once it goes on the market properly.
Our buyers still haven't had the report back from their survey yet but they heard from the bank and the valuation is fine so the mortgage has been approved. They've said they're considering getting a home buyers survey too (since this was just the mortgage valuation survey). The EA told the vendors of the house we've offered on that the survey came back totally fine (and said to us that the vendors don't need to be told about the homebuyers survey, as we would just negotiate with them if anything came up). The seller needs to check with her husband (who is very much in another time zone) before accepting, but we should hear tomorrow. The EA is confident it'll be a yes (but I'm not entirely convinced by EA confidence).