Well after a few days of waiting and pondering if it was worth parting with so much money, my brand new digital rebel has arrived. All i can say is, any doubts i had have gone and i am amazed just how good this camera is. Here are a few test shots from the garden, i am still waiting on my 75-300mm lense with super macro, but that will be here tomorrow.
First testing its up close abilities:)

depth of field needs some practice

some nice colours

perhaps they should be watered a little more:)

The only work that i have done with these is resizing. I have not sharpened or messed with curves or brightness at all, something i have had to do to get this sort of pic from my 2800. Cant wait till yeovil this is going to be sooo much fun

Yes sir i did go with the sigma. Thank you for your adivce and help with selecting this camera. Yes i used the kit lense for these, just shot it on full automatic, taking a little more time to learn the manual features now.
Thanks again for the help Ken:)

Brilliant shots Craig, enjoy your new toy