Would like to buy a, simple to use but good, CAD program that
preferably doesn't take a few months to learn!! As well as design
house floorplans [both 2d and 3d representations] we sometimes simply
need to draw fully to scale drawings of cupboards and other bespoke
joinery items [i.e. not standard pictures in the software]. Good
suggestions for UK please?

Here's a few free ones
> ICad. (http://www.intellicadms.com)
 Cadopia : http://www.cadopia.com
 SoftCAD.3D (http://www.softcad.com/English_site/Download/download.html)
 Design Workshop Lite (http://www.artifice.com/dw_lite.html)
 QCad (http://www.qcad.org/index.php3)
 Varkon (www.microform.se/)
 Desi (http://users.pandora.be/desi-iii/)
 CadStd Lite (http://www.apperson.org/cadstd)
FloorPlan LT, TurboCad Lite, etc. (http://www.imsisoft.com/free)

I'm not sure if all these links are still active