M for Marmalade
2nd March 2022 2/?
Hello Hello all you wonderful awesome readers and writers!
Are you rocking March now, touch wood I am, so let's hope that this rockingness it keeps on lasting all month long๐
I posted a picture of a bee yesterday and whilst I was searching through all my bee pictures of which there must be over a hundred, I also saw a picture or three in my gallery that brightened up my day. And then I read about marmalade this morning.
So guess what I decided this morning. Yes, I decided that the time was right to have marmalade for breakfast!
This was a brand new jar of marmalade that I had not opened. I remember as a kid helping my grandmother make jams and marmalades. The marmalade though was always made with oranges which sometimes I found a bit too sweet, I don't sugar control was really a thing back then!
If you look at the label on the jar, you can see that this one is called Three Fruit Marmalade, which means that not only does it have Oranges but it also has Grapefruit and Lemons. I wonder should it be two grapefruits or grapefruit what a difficult language English really is!
Anyway I decided to have some marmalade on a piece of sourdough malted wheat bread with a wee dod of butter.
Of course, I had to have a cup of ubiquitous coffee with it. That was my breakfast and it was bleeding delicious. I think I shall be having that again very soon.
I am not a big breakfast eater, I know from your pictures that some of you though like to eat a feast for your breakfast!
The more I eat then the more I want to keep eating throughout the day. It is as if my gastric juices start flowing and tummy says feed me, feed me NOW.
I often used to only eat one meal and that was at night.
Enough of the food, what was the picture that I had seen in my gallery that reminded me of marmalade?
Well if you saw the lead image I am sure that you know the answer by now?
This is a marmalade hoverfly, the markings give it the name marmalade.
More specifically the marmalade hoverfly has the scientific name of Episyrphus balteatus. Although it lives all year round, you tend not to notice them in winter in the UK. Gardeners love them because they feed on aphids and they are also nectar feeders on garden flowers.
Whenever I see one, I think spring is coming, now that the small flowers are starting to pop up, hopefully, I shall see some of these wee beauties flying around and yes they really do hover. Yes I am willing warmer weather to get here, like yesterday!
Unfortunately, many people confuse them with wasps and kill them. But I urge you, please leave all hoverflies alone, they are wonderful creatures like the bees. You don't kill bees so please don't kill hoverflies either.
It is a football night tonight and my dinner is almost here, so I am going to love you and leave you. Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day wherever you may be and whatever you may be doing!
Copyrightย @TengoLoTodoย ย ย ย 2022 and yes All Rights Reserved. All images, words, and ramblings are from the author unless otherwise stated.
100% original content from this mad Scotsman
And don't forget ;)
Haste ye back.
PS I thought I would leave you all with a picture of my dinner. It was from a Variety box from a local restaurant called Zaiqa. Fast hot and delicious and always scores a ten out of ten from me! Can you guess all that is there in the way of food? By the way do you say kebab or kabob?
We know grapefruit (pomelo) as grapefruit (toronja), in English it is written the same. Those foods you present are very exotic. I love beekeeping and honey production, I couldn't have an apiary.