***Warning - May cause bitterness if digested in the Falkland Islands***

Just back from a trip to the local market with some helpful neighbours and what a fantastic experience it was. A massive selection of fruit and vegetables at very reasonable prices and fresh and firm to boot!

I have decided to try a new fruit each week so yesterday we had had star fruit with our ice cream for pudding. Today I have bought some rambutans (red, spiky fruit the size of golf balls with fleshy inner part) for the next trial. I bought a bunch of celery for the first time in 2 years. I tasted things at stalls without a clue what they are. I got a quarter of a watermelon for the equivalent of £1.75. They had foods which seem extremely exotic such as bunches of ferns, dried fish and terrapins as well as all the run-of-the-mill produce like garlic, onion, ginger, apples, bananas, lettuce, peppers, chilli, aubergine and myriad other things I couldn't identify!

Next stop is the plant market to see if I can get chilli, pepper and thai basil plants to grow at home ...