£5000?

Last night I sued BT again, for the third time, this time for £5000.

To do this takes about five minutes if you go through the on-line small claims arrangement.  You're allowed 1000 characters to describe what's happened and why the defendant owes you what you claim.  I need 1000 pages! The stupid computer wouldn't let me send my completed form through for ages, and eventually I discovered this was because you're not allowed to use a '&' in your copy.  So I changed it to 'B and B' but the finished version came out as 'Band B' so I hope they get what I'm on about.

I claimed for pain and suffering - the worry that I have been through, and the misery X has suffered, unable to make his daily night-night call to Beloved Daughter; lost earnings and reputation for my B&B business, my satellite broadband dish, my HTC Orange mobile with its special built-in Signal Boost app, wages for Suz to wait around while BT failed to keep its appointments, and an Orange 'Signal Box' which I'm going to be forced to buy at this rate.  Trouble is - I can't call anyone at Orange, or what's now called ee for some reason - to ask them whether their new Signal Box thing will work here. 

The summons gets sent direct from the Court to BT's head office in London.  This exercise has cost me £100. Even if I dont win anything, it will have been worth doing!