Thanks for the support. Georgie, it appears that you might be right in the re-adjustment. As I was weaning him, he was drinking heaps of milk (3 x 260ml) but as soon as I took him off the breast, we have more or less only gone down to 1 or 2 x 260, depending on the day/mood, he appears to have completely rejected a 2pm milk bottle,which apparently is not unusual for this age (?), but fusses about with the one before bed. Unfortunately he still doesn't accept any water, but he doesn't appear dehydrated in anyway and there is plenty of heavy nappies, but I persist. As for the food - its a work in progress, I feel like I've digressed to when we first gave him solids with mainly pureed fruits as the food of choice. He will accept that readily. Yesterday he accepted potatoes and fish ( fish which he has not accepted before!) but only if I was hand feeding him as he played. If I tried to give it via his spoon, it was just not on. But as it came to dinner time, the same meal was not really accepted. We ended up giving bits of banana (hand fed of course) and yoghurt. At this stage he is sleeping through the night, but he is waking more often but able to put himself back to sleep. Today I will be attempting to give vegetables in pieces and see how I go with that.
Into the kitchen I go.!
By the way, thanks for the feedback, it has all given me some perspective and ideas.