i eat half a grapefruit for breakfast. of course i would rather indulge in a bacon sandwich or a full scottish breakfast, but, what the heck ...
we can't have everything we want!

grapefruit wise, this is the best time of the year for me because the supermarket shelf is very often stocked with south african grapefruit.
i love south african fruit, cider and wine. south african sunshine in an edible or drinkable form, delivered to my scottish table.

of course, even the simple matter of purchasing breakfast grapefruit can be elevated to an art form. after all, grape fruit have changed since the days of my youth when they were smaller, available only in yellow and really quite nasty. only the addition of lashings of sugar made them anywhere near edible!
as a native born south african i have long suspected that all the very best south african fruit was exported to foreign lands, leaving us, the sun blessed population to make do with what might possibly be described as 'seconds' i.e a tad less than perfect.
no matter, i am now a resident of those foreign climes and the south african fruit available is, quite simply put ...
well, practically perfect.

my personal favourite is the pink grapefruit, unfortunately in my supermarket the pink costs 49 pence per fruit whilst the more common marsh, a yellow fruit costs only 35 pence. that is 14 pence difference on each grapefruit. so, say i eat three a week or say 10 a month that would make a price difference of £1.40 to my breakfast spend. in a year... i would have saved £14, given that i might live to ninety whilst continuing to eat grapefruit for breakfast ... 27 x £14 equals ... damn, £378! now what might a ninety year old find to do with £378? most likely,absolutely sweet blow all!
and ... we haven't even touched on the red grapefruit ...

great goblets of glue! i need to get a life!