golden syrup – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 24 Dec 2015 22:18:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Essex https://orangette.net/2012/08/essex/ https://orangette.net/2012/08/essex/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:05:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/essex I MADE IT! By which I mean, I managed to not go into labor before, in the middle of, or in the days immediately following the opening of Essex. VICTORY. I imagine that I will very soon start cursing the fact that I am still pregnant, but for now, I feel like I should be given a medal, or a cocktail. Since neither is a viable option, I made myself a pan of flapjacks and ate a quarter of it in one sitting. I haven’t written a lot about Essex here, not because it has felt like any less of a big deal than Delancey, but because the first half of this year, which was when the project began to move forward,…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2012/08/essex/feed/ 208 No frosting, no ceremony https://orangette.net/2011/09/no-frosting-no-ceremony/ https://orangette.net/2011/09/no-frosting-no-ceremony/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:04:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/no-frosting-no-ceremony We left our window open last night, and when I woke up today, there was rain on the sill! I am wearing a scarf that I made! Let the hoarding of plums commence! What I thought about saying next was, “The citrus is coming! The citrus is coming!” (In the privacy of my own head, I spout this kind of garbage the way Old Faithful does boiling water.) I decided against it, but during the thirty seconds when I was considering and then reconsidering, I remembered a walk I took with the dog a few weeks ago. A little boy down the street was having a birthday party, and from the skull-and-crossbones flags tied to the laurel hedge along the…

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