If your funds are still in your Multibit-wallet then something went wrong, but you didn't loose anything.
I don't think your deposit will ever be made.
Open an account on a crypto-exchange, deposit BTC there and buy ETH.
Then you can withdraw from the exchange to your personal Etherbase.
Regards, djoser.
the funds have left my Multibit wallet and must be lost in cyberspace. It's not a large amount - just a few £ so I'm not really bothered about losing it, I'm more concerned about if the wallet is working correctly and ive not done anything wrong myself.
It may be because of what rocketron has written about it taking hours and hours to confirm as I didn't alter any fees
thanks for your help