Fry-ups are all very well but you need to have built a small extension or driven half way round the M25 to justify tucking into this glorious gut-buster of a breakfast. What I would suggest as an alternative is the unparalleled combination of marmalade and hot buttered toast. 

I remember reading a few years ago that marmalade sales were declining; not any more if Jane Hasell McCosh has any say in the matter. From her wonderful home in Cumbria, during February she hosts The Worlds Original Marmalade Festival; the highlight of which is The Worlds Original Marmalade Competition. 

For two years running we have been fortunate enough to have been selected as prize winners. Hundreds of hopeful jars of marmalade find their way from all over the world to Dalemain, were they run the gauntlet of the expert taste buds of the WI. This year we won a bronze for St Clements Marmalade with Whisky and were highly commended for Pineapple, Lime and Lemon Marmalade. Last year it was the turn of Quince & Lemon Marmalade that won a silver.  

I know I didn't win these gongs for encasing myself in lycra, lying on a small tea tray, and going 80 miles an hour, head first, down hill on an ice slick. Never the less we at OVF are equally proud to be representing our country…in the fine old tradition of marmalade making!