HJ - Very sorry to hear about your dog That is never an easy decision to make.

I have a Wii (it was given to me for Christmas) I haven't gotten the fit yet though. I do play sports and resort from time to time though. It's definitely not the same as actually getting out and doing exercise but you also get out of it what you put in. You can either really get into it and do full movement and really work yourself (and you can, both DH and I have been sore for days after fencing or rowing or something like that) or you can just make small wrist movements and not work youself so much.

Ammaki - Sorry to hear you are sick. That's no fun at the best of times and would be absolutely miserable when you are pregnant. Make sure you continue to eat healthy (lots of fruits with vitamin C and cook with lots of garlic) and hopefully you'll get over it quickly I reckon the thin veggie soup (I think it's the first recipe that Audax gave us) would be a really good sick 'comfort' food.

Kirst - I think the sorbet and icecream sold me on the thermomix. I've had my mouth watering all last night and this morning thinking of all the different sorbet types I can make (lemon, watermelon, mango, passionfruit) YUM! (wish there was a mouth watering icon to put here )

AFM - Unfortunately I never got around to making my pizza last night We had a few issues with our pigs (in that the piglets got out and were running around everywhere and mumma pig was going nuts!) So it was about 8 before I even thought about making dinner, so I just warmed up the left over pumpkin soup and made some garlic and cheese whole grain bread to go with it.