when I started  to ease the top dressing off some of the steri strips were stuck to the dressing. Lazy bugger surgeon didn't use stitches.

I had to re-stick the old dressing back down. I wish I had one of our nurse members here to assist me.

In the end steri strips may leave a neater scar - provided that they are strong enough to keep the wound closed. I sliced a finger open on Easter Sunday. The doctor I visited steri stripped rather than stitched. Wound fell open a few times which was annoying but I think it's probably a neater scar because I don't have the little holes from the stitches surrounding it although it is perhaps wider than it might have been if there were stitches.

Hope it heals well for you. I visited another doctor a few days later who kindly stuck the wound back together for me. From then on I could do it myself.

Like many of the previous commenters I have both. The Kitchen Aid came as a gift about six years ago and I have the pasta roller attachment and the ice cream maker bowl. I really like the way the Kitchen Aid does pasta and would really miss that function if I didn't have it. Certainly use the thermothingy more frequently than the Kitchen Aid though.  If the expense of the Kitchen Aid isn't an obstacle then go for it!

The BBQ has been uncovered and cleaned so tonight is the first BBQ of the season.

Having scotch fillet steaks and coleslaw.  I'm not yet convinced by thermothingy coleslaw - I prefer long strands of cabbage and carrot so I cut and grated by hand.

I have refined this a litte bit and added some weights for those who are that way inclined:

25g oats
5g psyllium
120g banana
20g brown sugar
90g plain flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bi carb
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
90g milk
1 egg

Put oats and psyllium in the bowl and mix on speed 8 for 30 seconds

Put remaining ingredients in the bowl and mix on speed 5 for 6 or 7 seconds. Stop, scrape down, mix on speed 5 for 6 or 7 seconds again.

Leave batter to rest in a separate bowl for 10 minutes or so (don't have to) while cleaning out the thermomix.

Fry generous dessert spoons full of the batter in a frying pan over medium heat with your preferred oil/butter (ghee works really well).  Turn them over when largeish bubbles appear and there appears to be a slight skin on top.

Serve with whatever you generally like with pikelets.  Butter and golden syrup for me.

Makes approximately 10 medium sized pikelets

Chicken, mushroom and bacon pies from Nigella Express.  Doubled the recipe, added in extra veg (leek and beans) and also added mustard and worcestershire sauce.  That'll cover lunch for tomorrow too!

Lamb roast
And that means lamb sandwich for lunch tomorrow!

Grabbed the PoK daily deal today

We have the medium sized weberQ and it is excellent. Gas lasts for so much longer than you would ever expect and it's relatively easy to clean. Would use it on average 5 times a week in the summer months and probably only use one gas bottle.