lighting wasn’t a problem, the time was eaten up by the sculpting etc on the lemon in the centre and his varies apparatus, I didn’t do any baking so its rendering several mill polygons.
You know after you rendered and lost it you could’ve clicked F11. F11 shows Render buffer. If you accidently quit your render. It could be a useful feature next time. 
That only works if you have something rendered =P. Does anybody know if you can continue from a previous render? This thread is no longer urgent since I’ve finished the project but I still like to learn… Especially considering how I’m intending to do a animated short to properly learn Blender’s animation capabilities, anything I learn between now and then will be helpful. I happen to have that book on animation, just haven’t gotten around to properly doing it.
try doing some tutorials or reading the manual.
Yeah that’s kinda what I’ve been doing, but tutorials don’t tell you how to fix stuff.