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I thought that I didn't like raspberries but I discovered that it was cooked raspberries and raspberry sauce that I dislike. My first experience of the fruit had been of preserves and sauce then I avoided all of it. The fresh fruit is great.

Lime chilli chicken wings, spicey fried rice and roasted plantain slices.

Congrats on the new baby, Kell

I love cherry tomatoes and sweet peppers too, those I'll eat chopped up in salads, cooked and I've had a few times where I've just picked one up and start munching on it just like that.

Oh how could I have forgotten to mention pineapple, its delicious. I have to be careful though, I have a mild allergy to it so I rarely have in and if I do I have a minute portion. Kiwi seems the same way. It burns my lips and tongue slightly but taste great.

I don't consider some of my favorite fruits to be exotic since I got a taste for them in the Caribbean right off the trees in most cases. Those taste much better than those mass grown for export to supermakets.

Strange enough I did write a short story on bullying when I was around 19 and entered it into a local competition. I got a letter from a publisher interested in more but I panicked and didn't reply. I had more than a short story to tell and its somewhere lurking around my place.

I've just noticed that I haven't seen any topic on fruit. I like fruits. My favorites are mangoes (not the average supermarket ones found in the UK), watermelon and banana. There are those that I don't get regularly but enjoy them when I get them; tamarind guava star fruit kumquats The rarer ones; Guanabana (soursop) pomcythere/dune plum (golden apple and no it has nothing to do with apples in Europe or North America) I even like grapefruit but strange enough I don't like lychees. What are you favorites? What would you also like to try even if its just once? I'd like to try a jackfruit.

A bannana, yogurt and oat smoothie.

Yeah its more adult. I discovered it in the Library and there're no copies of it in the teen section.

Well Cranes look like flying Daddy Long Legs When I first saw them I was confused, I thought surely they aren't some giant sort of mosquito?

Was The Trouble with Harry the movie with everyone claiming to have killed Harry since he was not a nice character ? If so I remember it. It was in black and white I think. I liked it. I saw it on tv when they were doing old classics when I was a teen. The last movie I watched was Precious.

I got bored so I watched it. I kind of like Hercules for being funny and not at all like the Hercules we'd usually expect.

Tad Williams has a series called Otherworld. Most of it is spent in virtual reality and that's where these friends met each other having never met in real life. One even dies (degenerative illness) but manages to live on because of his virtual self. I read some of the books but not all it was too much. There's references of other books even Lord Of the Rings because the virtual world is what the friends make it and they've been influenced by books and movies. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Otherland-City-Golden-Shadow-Bk/dp/1857236041/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381258455&sr=1-1&keywords=tad+williams+otherland

I've seen both.

There's Kate Griffins I've read her Madness of Angels book. Rivers of London's author is Ben Aaronovitch.

I've lost count of the series I've read. Some of my favorites that haven't been mentioned so far are; Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician Trilogy Anne Bishop's Black Jewels series Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern series Octavia E Butler's Xenogenesis/Lillith's Brood Terry Prachett's Discworld series Terry Brooks Landover series Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden Files Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series Kate Griffin's Mathew Swift novels Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series Ilona Andrew's Kate Daniels series Kelly Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan/Hollows series Wen Spencer's Elfhome series Peter V Brett's Demon Cycle Orson Scott Card's Ender's Saga Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori

Hmm, I recall Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series and her YA series. There's a character called Simi (nick name supposedly meaning baby) who refers to herself as The Simi. She'd say "The Simi want/likes ...." She is hilarious with a voracious appetite, there isn't a thing she won't eat especially if she adds ketchup/barbeque sauce and yes she'd eat a car too tires and all.

I'm waiting for my butternut squash cake to finish baking. I followed a carrot cake recipe that had yougurt and oil instead of melted butter/margarine. Steamed mash squash replaced the carrots and I've added mixed spice. I've made this on many occasions, its delicious. At Christmas I bake some upside down pear cake using demerara sugar so it ends up all golden. Sometimes I have cherries in the center of the pear slices. I also make a luscious dark chocolate cake using pure cocoa powder and yogurt as well the usual butter, eggs flour and sugar. I've been baking since I was 12.

Well I'm planning on trying jogging. I've had long walks in the past, swimming and cycling. Since I haven't been very active in the past two years and am now carry extra weight I'm starting with walking. I've had 3 power walks this week 2km-4km, partly uphill since there is a hill where I live. My immediate incentive for the walks is to visit all the libraries in a 6km radius. I have done this years ago and it was very effective, new reading material that day without having to order it and wait for it to get to my local library. Then there was the opportunity to read al fresco in the parks on my walking routes. I'd also taken the 2km walk to have a swim and play squash rather than use the one a few hundred metres from my home then walked back home. I ended up fit enough to try capoeira then. This time I'm not swimming due to having skin allergies causing trouble. I am also starting yoga again.

Hi Dex, one that easily comes to mind is the Ukiah Oregan series. It starts with Alien Taste. There are four books in total.

It has to be fiction. Sometimes I'd go for a light read. CS Lewis was handy when I was a child. There are times that I like a dark read. Ann Bishop's Black Jewels series works.

I'm about to eat a rice salad.

Water, my favorite drink.