So do I keep with writing this book on the different citrus fruit that I know about?
I am having fun with the research, not so sure about the writing down of all the words.
21 January, 2022
15 January, 2022
The Book I am Working on
So I started to write book on Citrus fruit.
Below is the introduction to the book, in fact its the first bit that I have so far written. I am sure that it will change a lot as time goes by, enjoy.
Hey you lost reader !
If you found yourself reading this and want to make a comment then please do so.
Citrus Introduction
Citrus
is the name of a group of trees and shrubs which belong to the Rue family of
plants.
The
four original citrus species pomelo, citron, mandarin,
and papeda), from which the rest of
cultivated citrus hybridized.
In particular, the common orange and the grapefruit are
assumed to be natural occurring hybrids between the pomelo and the mandarin,
with the pomelo providing the bigger size and greater firmness. Some of the more
common citrus fruits are:
Oranges, Grapefruits, Lemons, Mandarins, Clementines, Satsumas, Tangelos,
Tangerines, Tangors, kumquats, Bitter Orange, Limes, Citrons, Pomelos & Bergamots.
Citrus
trees grow wild in parts of India and also south-eastern Asia. The Chinese appear to have been the first to
cultivate Citrus trees, more than 4,000 years ago. These trees and shrubs have been grown in
other parts of the world for their Citrus fruits for many years e.g. 1000 odd
years or more.
Citrus
trees are thorny, but usually attractive.
They are evergreen, with long, shiny, pointed leaves. The flowers are fragrant ripe citrus fruits
may be green or yellow to orange-red in colour.
All Citrus fruits are a type of Berry that scientists call a Hesperidium
(And no I don’t have a clue what this means); Actually I have now looked it up
and most of the sources that I looked up say this sort of thing;
“Hesperidium,
is a berry with a leathery rind. The exocarp (this is the peel) contains
volatile oil glands (essential oils) in pits. The fleshy interior (or its more
proper name the endocarp) is composed of separate sections (yep, there is a
proper name for all these bits, and this is the name for these bits carpels)
filled with fluid-filled sacs (this name has got to come from some Latin word vesicles)
that are actually specialized hair cells.”
Citrus
fruits all grow in rather warm climates.
They grow best where there is almost no frost or wind. All grow in tropical regions, but produce
better fruit in a slightly cooler climate.
Citrus fruits are valuable foods.
They contain large amounts of vitamins and minerals. Citrus fruits are usually high in vitamin C,
which humans need daily if they are to stay healthy.
Citrus
plants are members of the rue family of plants, Rutaceae.
This
plant family consists of six genera:
·
Fortunella
·
Eremocitrus
·
Poncirus
·
Clymenia
·
Microcitrus
·
Citrus
The
Rue is a type of herb, which grows as a low shrub. Common Rue (Ruta graveolens,
commonly known as rue, common rue or herb-of-grace, is a species of Ruta grown
as an ornamental plant and as an herb. It is native to the Balkan Peninsula. It
is now grown throughout the world in gardens, especially for its bluish leaves,
and sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions. It is also
cultivated as a medicinal herb, as a condiment, and to a lesser extent as an
insect repellent) has deeply divided blue green leaves that have a very strong
acrid or bitter smell.
The
leaves are used sparingly to flavour meat dishes. The small yellowish flowers
are borne on stiff upright flower stalks. About 40 species of Rue are native to
Europe and Asia. Rues belong to the family Rutaceae. (Rutaceae, commonly known
as the rue or citrus family, are a family of flowering plants, usually placed
in the order Sapindales. Species of the family generally have flowers that
divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents. They range in form
and size from herbs to shrubs and small trees) The Common rue is also called Ruta
Graveolens.
The genus Citrus is native to Southeast Asia, occurring from northern
India to China and south through Malaysia, the East Indies and the Philippines.
There are about 16 species and they are all small evergreen trees and shrubs,
usually with spines on trunks and branches.
The ecology of wild species is now hard to
establish because of drastic habitat modifications in the region as well as
extensive hybridisation between wild and domesticated plants. The history of
domestication has also been hard to establish because archaeological evidence
is lacking and it has been difficult to link names and descriptions in ancient
accounts with the actual species we know today. Records of domestication go
back to about 500 BC.
Citrus fruits are high in vitamin C, Flavonoids,
acids and volatile oils. They contain Coumarins (Coumarin is a fragrant organic
chemical compound in the benzopyrone chemical class, which is a colourless
crystalline substance in its standard state. It is a natural substance found in
many plants.) such as Bergapten (Bergapten is a psoralen found in bergamot
essential oil, in other citrus essential oils, and in grapefruit juice. It is
the chemical in bergamot oil that causes phytotoxicity. Bergapten-free bergamot
essential oil or synthetics are now used in perfumery.) which make the skin
sensitive to sunlight.
Many Citrus species and varieties are not
cultivated for producing fresh edible fruit but are sour and used for other
purposes: oil is extracted from freshly open flowers (e.g. Neroli oil (Neroli oil is an essential oil produced from the blossom of
the bitter orange tree. Its scent is sweet, honeyed and somewhat metallic with
green and spicy facets. Orange blossom is also extracted from the same blossom
and both extracts are extensively used in perfumery. Orange blossom can be
described as smelling sweeter, warmer and more floral than neroli. The
difference between how neroli and orange blossom smell and why they are
referred to with different names, is a result of the process of extraction that
is used to obtain the oil from the blooms. Neroli is extracted by steam
distillation and orange blossom is extracted via a process of enfleurage.) which
comes from Bergamot) and is used in perfumes. Leaves are used for flavouring
foods and for medicinal infusions.
Essential oils are extracted from leaves and unripe or ripe fruit and used in flavourings and for scenting toiletry products. The skin of fruit is used for making marmalade.
New Post
So this is my first written post to this Blog , so keeping it a live for another year!
I don't know how 2022 is going to be for Blog posts, but lets hope its more than this one post!
11 January, 2022
09 January, 2022
07 January, 2022
31 December, 2021
29 December, 2021
21 December, 2021
Worried
I was worried that this Blog was going to get a lot of hits but glad to say that the view hits have dropped down to the usual 5 or so.
18 December, 2021
Looking at Stats
I was looking at the stats for this blog and what countries had accessed this Blog.
Number 1 was USA which I suppose is not a surprise as there are over 300 million people in the USA (I think, no I have not checked!) so there is always a good chance that someone in the USA could hit this Blog by mistake.
Second country was the real surprise for me in that it was France!
Well the blog is in a very poor English and I suspect that what I tend to write about really is no interest to the average French person, on top of that I have no idea how many people there are in France but it must be more than in the UK,
I am thinking that they hit the site by mistake......
How to Blog Better
Apparently the list below are things that you should do to make your blog great and get lots of readers. so I thought it would be a great idea to list them and to say what I do or don't do.
Find a niche
This I think I have done, not very well but I have done it.
Write about what you love
Write about something you love I have done this, trouble appears to be that others don't like much what I tend to write about, go figure....
Offer value
Not got a clue what this means, so I have not done this.
Focus on marketing
I dont do this, which will be the main reason why I don't get any views.
Encourage interaction
This is set up, but as no one reads the Blog it has not happened.
Make commenting easy
As above I think this is set up and when I do get a comment I do answer it.
Don't worry about negativity
Occasionally you may get the odd negative comment on your blog I have not had this and if it did happen I would not worry about it.
Don't get stage fright and believe in yourself
Gosh Blogs can get that many views, who knew?
Images, images and more images
People love images. I have tried this but its not something I have tried really hard to do, so perhaps its time to try this again, especially as storage is not an issue.
Provide easy reading
I think I do this, as most of my Blog posts tend to be very simple and short.
Give your posts punchy titles
I think I do this, not sure if they are click bait standard.
Keep it regular
This one I fail at badly in that it can be weeks between postes, perhaps something to try and improve on and see if it makes no difference.
Avoid clutter
I do this my site is very simple.
Get social
I don't do this one very well.
Keep an eye on analytics
You know I do look at the stats I am waiting for the day I can proudly say I have had 10 views of one of my posts.
Allow easy following
I don't know in Blogger how to do this.
Get personal
This is something that I have not done.
Spell checking and proof-reading
This is something that I have done mainly because I cant spell.
It's a very long list and as you can see most of the items I don't do. So I shall try in the new year which as I write this is going to be 2022 and see if it make any change to the Blog.
12 December, 2021
6 Views
OMG
this site last week dec 2021 got 6 whole views, I know... its a lot
I don't know how Google was able to handle all those visits......
11 December, 2021
07 December, 2021
New Track
So later tonight 7/12/2021 I will release a new track and post it on youtube, so it will appear here also.
Enjoy
Blog Stats
For some reason that I cant fathom I decided to look at the stats for this Blog, which as you know is a waste of time as noone looks at that Blog.
One of the recent Blog posts got 6 views which surely must be some sort of record for this blog.
One other stat that I saw was that the send most popular country to visit my Blog is Portugal!!!
I don't understand why this is as the Blog to my knowledge has until now had any mention of Portugal, and this Blog is in English not Portuguese.
So why is it so popular, popular just being a turn of phase as this Blog is not popular.
I don't know the answer.
Anyway if you are from Portugal and you find yourself reading this Blog Welcome.
05 December, 2021
Album Deep
Just a note to me that I have finished the Album Deep and that I have somehow also manged to post all the tracks from the album on to YouTube.
If I am lucky maybe they will get a pay by one person or two....
I don't care if there are no plays or lots of plays as Youtube is a great place to hold my music so that I can listen to it wherever I am in the world and on any device that I happen to have with me at the time.
I also happen to like listening to my own music!
Does that make me weird or what?
You never hear of other artists confirming that they like to listen to their own music do you?
Why is that?
Is making music just a job?
I dont know the answer to these questions but it would be great to find out some answers.
Music
Why is it the all humans like music?
What is it about music that appeals to humans?
These are two questions that have been going around in my head over the last day or two
Parkrun
Don't know if I written it here before, but I now do a parkrun every Saturday that there is one running, have been doing this now since 2017, so maybe I have said something about it before?
Anyway I run each saturday 5K in the fastest time that I can, I am pleased to say that I have got a bit faster as time has gone by.
The big question is
Is it fun?
The answer is yes
The run does me good which is good it gets me out of the house, and somehow I have even manged to make some friends which is something I still find amazing as I am not an outwards going person, so to make friends is great, what is even more amazing is that most of my friends are women who I have found hard to talk to.... go figure
Perhaps because its a non threating place and time I don't feel unsafe and that I don't have to make small talk as most of the things we talk about most of the time are about running but often as not it does go into other things which so far I have not found uncomfortable in talking about.
At the time of writing this Blog I have managed to get my time to 24.22 for 5K I would love to get under 24 perhaps with some training this is something I will be able to do
Who knows?
Anyway onwards and upwards
04 December, 2021
Blog post
Looking at the Blog dashboard for this very underused blog site I noticed that somehow one of my posts was looked by 10 people, bots ect
How is that possible?
I am sure that as I don't post very often on this Blog that the bots and any humans out there wrote this Blog off years ago as a dead Blog not worth following.
I suppose by posting this Blog entry they will think that the Blog is alive again!
Who knows? maybe it might get 11 views......!!!!
Learning
Do you find it easy to learn new stuff from books?
I find that I have to break the learning down into 15 minute chunks, otherwise I find that I loose concentration and start to loose what I am reading. This must also be something that must get harder if you have not done a lot of book learning for some time.
I wonder if the brain needs to get itself back up to speed in doing book learning, so I suppose that if you are doing book learning often its easier, not Shure if age has anything to do with it either, just an idle thought.
Now test are I thin another thing that also needs practice, that I am sure of, one so you can pull the information out of your head and the second thing is getting control of your nerves while doing the test.
I have a test soon where you have to answer 60 multiple questions in 90 minutes with the added joy that some of the questions have more than one answer needed!
Or the questions ask for the correct no answer!
Real Ale
So a note to me.
Today I am drink a ale called "Old Speckled Hen" its 5% and a nice easy drink to have while blogging or just listening to music.
28 November, 2021
videos that I like
28 November 2021
So I have finally found out how to upload my tunes to YouTube again, so prepare for your ears to hurt.
videos that I like
28 November 2021
So I have finally found out how to upload my tunes to YouTube again, so prepare for your ears to hurt.
27 November, 2021
videos that I like
27 November 2021
So I have finally found out how to upload my tunes to YouTube again, so prepare for your ears to hurt.
26 November, 2021
06 November, 2021
Fat boy Slim concert
So I was lucky yesterday to go to the Wembley Area in London to see Fatboy Slim in concert and I am very pleased to say that his set was very good, up to date and well worth the time and effort it took for me to travel to London and also to stay in a hotel overnight, which is something that I find hard to do.
The set that was played was a mixture of old crowd favourites and also new ways of playing these tracks with new material, the great news is that this concert was filmed so you will at some stage be able to watch it.
One thingsomall in all a great night out. to bear in mind is that I filmed the very star of the set some two or three minutes and the camera does not capture the sound 100% the base that I felt more than heard just cannot be captured, I have heard several of my friends remark the same thing.
03 November, 2021
Three in a Row
So I have somehow managed to write three blog posts in a row, (this could be a record for me, not that I have any way of checking) which these days must be some kind of record (and I do also like to repeat myself, well? why not?).
Hopefully this sudden activity has caused the Google system to realise that this blog has not died and that it is sort of active for me at least in the last part of the year.
Sad that I am also finding myself reading some of the older posts to find out what I was doing or thinking of back then. Also just how old this blog is.
What is more amazing to me is that Google have not done there normal trick of shutting down something that they brought.
I have seen a post that did list all the projects that Google released that shut down some time later.....
02 November, 2021
Oh no!
following yesterdays post I looked up my 1 follower of this blog, and it appears that he has died sometime in late December of 2020, this is very sad as i did like to follow his blog and his pictures on Flicker..
It also shows just how often I looked at this blog and his.... (I have said else where how I have not done much blogging)
So I am sad that I did not know of his passing,
I do hope that Linda his wife is okay and that has come to terms with what has happened and can remember the good times, especially the trips that they did together, as there are lots of pictures to look at.
Although I suppose that it will be painful so close to losing him to look back at the pictures, but hopefully in time it will just bring back good memory's.
01 November, 2021
My Blog Follower
Somehow way back in the early days this blog got a follower,
I was pleased that someone found me and decided to follow me. I did the good thing of also following them , but what was also great I like his blog content and the pictures that he posts and that he has an interest in Scifi the same as me, he is more into collecting, while I am mainly into reading about it.
It sadden me to learn that his health is not the good. In fact since his last posts I have not been able to find out how he is doing, I hope that he is well. (if I find out will update this post)
So thanks you dear follower Traveller28 for your time and pictures.
November
Wow,
Look at me another blog post in a new month, looking at when I first started this blog, it turns out that I started sometime in 2005!
So from 2005 and its now 2021 so somehow I have been doing this blog poorly for over 16 years!
As a Google project it's a surprise that it has not yet been shutdown. How many of their other projects do you know that have been running that long that are not part of their main business?
I don't think there are very many.
I wounder if there is a way to find out just how many active blogs there now are on Blogger it would be great to know.
Perhaps they use the data in all the blogs in some way and thats the reason why it has not been shut down or that it does not take many resources to run it, who knows? I am just glad that it is still working and that I can when I want to just dump Odd Thoughts from my height desk on to it when the mood strikes me.
10 October, 2021
A Voice
So is this a blog a shout out into the void, never to be read by anyone other than me?
I thinks so, there are so many blogs by so many people why would anyone find mine?
More to the point why would anyone want to read what I have said?
Dose it matter that no one other than me will read this? the answer has to be no!
I am not really writing this for anyone other than me, I may read this when I am much older, I many never read it, it may be read by one of those internet bots, what they will make of this I just dont know all I do know is that I have at this time and date put down some of my thoughts and that to me is great as now those thoughts are not lost to the moment the will live on for a while.
I suspect that at sometime in the future Google or what ever it is called at the time will notice that I have not updated this blog in a long time or even accessed it ( probably because I am dead) it will send a warning but it will in the end delete it and so my thoughts of today will finally be gone lost forever.....
Eden Mill St Andrews Shipwreck
Eden Mill St Andrews Shipwreck
So just to prove that this blog is still alive sort of....
Just had a new beer to me, which is called Shipwreck and its by Eden Mill brewery of St Andrews all I can say is that its a nice dink with good flavor and that it is 6.2% which these days makes it a strong beer?
Mainly as most beers today tend to be on 5% or less alcohol these days.
All I can say is that you can't taste the alcohol if that makes sense, the hops and malts etc are what you taste, so I can only put that down to the brewer and their skill.
I do wonder how they make sure this batch of beer tastes the same as previous brews, perhaps that is something I should look up?
Anyway it's a nice drink, its not a session drink, as it's far to strong for that, and I think it would cheapen it some what doing that to it, e.g making it a session beer, not that there is anything wrong with a session beer.
23 September, 2021
Still alive (mostly)
This blog is still alive, not very alive but still hanging on in there. I have found that I don't have a lot to say and as this is really me talking to me, as this blog does not get very many views from what I can tell. What do I want to say to myself at this moment in time?
See that's the problem what to talk about?
I don't have much to say to myself that I want to put here, are written blogs a very old thing now with Ticktock and such things? I don't know.
Anyway I shall try and look at this site again before the end of 2021......
19 August, 2021
videos that I like
Back Time
Another track that I like
Check I seem to have done some 600 tracks made for me if you like them great otherwise don't worry.
19 June, 2021
Still Going
So this blog is still going...
Its just that I do not have much to say at this time as I am the only one that reads this its really more like an old notebook to me where i can jot down things I am doing or thinking about. I also post links to music that I have uploaded to YouTube.
Upload my music has become much harder as things have been altered to make it harder to upload content, (well thats what it feels like to me) I used to be able to upload in just one or two clicks, now its much much more and do I have the time for all that ?
No, I don't
so that is one of the reasons for less uploads.
So see you later
05 April, 2021
videos that I like
18Km run in time-lapse 18Km run in time-lapse playing with the new GoPro 9 still have yest to get the right setting.
28 March, 2021
25 March, 2021
Blog I am still a live Blog....
so,
This blog is still going, not that many new posts and what gets posted is from YouTube telling you normally about a new music track that I have uploaded. it could also be a new GoPro post, if I ever work out how to post the vid from the GoPro cloud to YouTube, if there are no Go pro vids then I did not manage to work out how to upload.
The good news is that I am still creating lots of music and have a backlog of 50 tracks to upload when I now work out how to do this again, as YouTube has changes what it like and so has the main sequencing software that I use, changed how you upload, in fact it has got much harder to just upload the raw music track.
It does not help that I don't yet have proper thumb nails for my tracks or even video, well with over 700 tracks how could I make so many video's?
So the blog is alive and if I can i will post the odd text blog.
videos that I like
In The Warehouse at 6am. The last track of the set playing out at 6am, after an all night set.
28 February, 2021
02 February, 2021
17 January, 2021
16 January, 2021
02 January, 2021
01 January, 2021
31 December, 2020
03 November, 2020
videos that I like
Fade into The Night This track is from 2012 and is the 1st part from a soundtrack album called Fade into the Night, made with a very early version of Ableton and a Sony programme called I think cinescope?
videos that I like
ABA Two So if this has worked this should have some graphics. The mix is from a very long time ago in fact I think it started out as a mix on Dance ejay of all things! then has been mixed with other programmes.
09 October, 2020
videos that I like
Keep Fit Trance Trance Beats So welcome to a new form of Trance which I have just made up called Keep Fit Trance it’s not really that different from any other Trance apart from the fact that it got a beat that you could do a hit class to. I do like the second lot of drum beats in this track.
03 October, 2020
videos that I like
October Trance Trance It looks like October 2020 is Trance month for me as I have been very busy and it appears that all the tracks I have written have been Trance sounding in some way or other. Not sure just how many of the tracks will end up here.
29 September, 2020
videos that I like
Dawns Glow Film Soundtrack Dawns Glow is one of the sound tracks to a film that never got made, mainly because there was no funding for the project. the film was going to be called “The Crowd” this track was going to be used in the first act after the Titles had finished and helped to introduce the main character early in the morning hence tracks title.
20 September, 2020
videos that I like
Warehouse Trance Part 1 This is part 1 of the Warehouse Trance series, don’t know how many parts there will be, but had fun making the tracks. A lot of the samples that were used on this track have been very heavily modified to get the sound that I was after.
19 September, 2020
videos that I like
Dupe Blues This is my version of Trance Blues, not sure if such a genre exists, nevertheless here my take on it
Dupe Blues
If all has gone well I think I have managed to upload a new music track of mine to YouTube for the first time in weeks, they appear to have changed how you upload stuff on the site.
10 July, 2020
28 June, 2020
27 June, 2020
25 May, 2020
Largerita ( Very Updated Content)
Largerita ( Very Updated Content)
This is a great Summer drink (Yes, it's true that the UK does have summers, it's just they don't last long! normally 3 or 4 days then it's rain, rain and rain!) that with great food and friends is a very nice drink that always goes down well, and it is also a hot summers day drink and a hot summer is even better (But much much rarer here in the UK!), and a BBQ is well even more better! (hey English is my first language, which I am still trying to learn!)
So to make my version of a Largerita you will need;
( I did say to make my version of a Largerita! you may find others that have similar ideas, they are also worth having a go at, it may be that one of the versions you find is just what you are looking for! )
So you need the following bits and pieces, leaving any of these items out, will as you have worked in in what you make not being a Largerita!
Bottle of Mexican Beer
(For me this is Sol, as I have not here in the UK found anything else for sale from Mexico) (330 ml) make sure it's cold, (I said Cold got it?) if you have no Sol,(yes, and I also do bad puns!) I have found that any 5% (Alc vol) bottled Larger works, but for some reason the less "sweet" ones work much better, your taste buds might have other ideas!....(and if they do, give them a taking to.....)( make sure the beer is cold, you will see a theme, about cold here....so the beer has to be cold okay? got that!)
One shot of Tequila
(The best you have around, also without this ingredient you will not have a Largerita, and I mean the best you have (Tequila that is), your Largerita will taste much better if you don't skimp on the quality of the ingredients honest.....if you happen to have Patron Platinum, and who doesn't? then go for it, it really does make a big difference to the final drink, I should know as I have tried this drink with several different Tequila's and its sad to say that in the case of Tequila you get what you pay for, at least that's what my taste buds are telling me!)
One shot of Triple Sec
(Any make seems to work, but please do note that different Triple Sec's do have different tastes, and deep flavors so find one you like.)
One shot of Lime Cordial
(The higher the Lime content the better, here in the UK, I have found that Britvic and Rose Lime Cordial work well, for me that is (my taste buds again).)
Fresh Lime Juice to taste
(Not really needed, but try it for the first glass or two, it's a real surprise what a little fresh Lime juice can do to the taste of a drink.) No I don't know why but it just makes a difference!
Mix vigorously and serve with ice
(Well don't ask me why, but do not leave this out, as it makes all the difference to the final drink, you end up with in your hand, well to me it does...and I promise you, I have tried this recipe both ways and this is the best way (with Ice that is.....)
I have read somewhere that it deepens the taste, whatever that means!
(All I know is that it really does change the nature of the drink into something-worth having on a hot day, with lots of blue sky, your shades on and a BBQ near by...)
Now sit down, relax, make sure you have your shades on, enjoy a sip or two of your Largerita, chill and enjoy the taste and the blue sky and if you have a BBQ near by, enjoy a little snack to help with your Largerita.
When you find that your glass is empty, then do go and make yourself another! ( of course as your thought ahead you will go to the fridge and just fill you glass from the pitcher of Largerita you made earlier, because you know just how great a drink it is!!)
My Thoughts on all of this
So there you have my version of a Largerita, which I have to say it always works well for me.
I suspect that the better the ingredients the better the end result, but then, you know that don't you?
Also it's a bit like when baking, keep to the measures given, as it makes all the difference. (yes just a little bit over on just one of the items can change the whole nature and the final taste of resulting drink) (I have warned you, as I know from my own experience! that it can make a great drink, complete crap!)
Have fun and let me know how you got on, and if you can remember what Larger, Lime cordial and Triple Sec and Tequila you used, let me know, so that I can try them out assuming I can get them in the UK that is.
23 May, 2020
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17 May, 2020
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