Nappyaddict, are you worried that you don't know how to go about potty training? I admit I left it until day nursery told me that DS had been happily sitting on the potty there every day, and doing something! He was 2.6. Interestingly, at home DS never asked to sit on his own potty, or told me he sat on the nursery ones! I wish they had told me sooner, as we could have done the same at home. They used to put a group of them on the potty after meals together, but nappies were put on between times. (Potty practice) Then they thought he was confident enough to try the no nappies approach.
Over the weekend I left DS pantless, with a potty in the lounge and explained that if he needed a weewee or poo he could sit on it. I watched astounded as he paused in his play, made his way to the potty, sat down, and did a wee! I put nappies back on some of the time that weekend. On the Monday, DS soaked every clothing item I had sent to nursery and some of theirs, and his carseat. I felt so dispirited. It was obvious he knew what to do and seemed such a regression. After a full day at work, extra washing and cleaning carpets was the last thing I wanted to do. I prepared myself for weeks and weeks of it, but never communicated my disappointment to DS.
The next day, the nursery took off just his jogging bottoms and left his pants on. This was a really good day, he asked for the potty and used it every time. The jogging bottoms fooled him into thinking he still had a nappy on. By the weekend he could cope with having trousers on, and used to shout 'potty!' when he needed it, I would down tools and get him on it quickly, and he always did something, no false alarms. In a fortnight he was reliable, accidents tended to happen if he fell asleep in the car unexpectedly.
A month later, DS was fetching his potty from the downstairs loo, pulling his trousers and pants down and putting himself on without my help. He needed me to wipe him and help him pull up his clothes, but mainly took responsibility for his own pottying.
What I'm trying to say is that I, like you, dreaded potty training, thought it would be a long drawn out thing, and I would be fed up of washing and scrubbing carpets, tired from working full time. It really wasn't as bad as I feared.
Do you think a low-key potty practice with a nappy in between potty uses would be a good way to start your DS? Put him on the potty at certain times throughout the day and see what happens? When he knows what you want him to do you can start the more intensive no-nappies training.