Following on from the Colling discovery of smoothies, I've been reading Nigel Slater's Thirst. Several gorgeous recipes for smoothies and fruit juices. The only problem being, the juicer and the blender are in the attic room, packed in their boxes, and liable to remain so until the kitchen is finished. Foiled again...it'll have to be Tesco Finest smoothies for the moment.

Although I do have a rather marvellous gadget which you can use for (a) mashing potatoes (b) making German spetzler (looks like worms I know, but absolutely gorgeous) and (c) pureeing fruit/veg/soup etc. I'll leave you to guess what it looks like, but give you the hint that it's a weird one to store...