Thanks for the words of encouragement curryhell. I've just printed my shopping list for the base, it's the one posted by CA as it seems to have good reviews.

Fingers crossed, I'll keep you updated with the results 

Bigwings

See, I'm that excited about it I couldn't even spell "Hi from me" correctly  :

Hi folks

I've been a curry fan for many a long year, even tried cooking a few but I won't talk about those. Over the moon to have found this site, maybe I'll manage to get it right now.

Fingers crossed

Bigwings  ;D