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Three things which are orange:

1. Citrus fruits

I do like the smaller orange citrus fruits: satsumas, tangerines, etc.  When the kids were at home I used to sometimes make trifle with orange jelly and tinned mandarin slices, which was really nice.


2. Marigolds

And lots of other small orange flowers, plus roses.  So bright and cheerful.


3. Ginger cats (and goldfish)

At one point we had two cats - farm kittens, brothers who shared a brain.  One was ginger and the other was ginger and white.  Our previous cat had been extremely intelligent, this pair were useless - although one of them did manage to catch the neighbour's goldfish, which it brought home and we'd rescue the fish and send it back in a bucket of water.  To be accurate our son was sent back with the fish.


Fanfics I've written with orange:

Not many come to mind, so I will use the 60 word ficlets written for [community profile] sherlock60 due to the ACD short story The Five Orange Pips

The Ocelot Tales 

Entries in the Marylebone Monthly Illustrated

The Private Journal of Dr Watson



Date: 2020-07-06 03:52 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (mucha)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
I like citrus fruit myself. I like them all except grapefruit but I did have a very good grapefruit one time at a Bed & Breakfast inn in Oregon where they cut the grapefruit in half and grilled it with sugar. I tried to replicate it at home but it was never as good.

I did not know you had cats!

Date: 2020-07-06 04:31 pm (UTC)
bloodydemonic: (Winchester Brothers)
From: [personal profile] bloodydemonic
Those trifles sound amazing!

🧡

Date: 2020-07-06 06:26 pm (UTC)
oldtoadwoman: Sam Winchester, Supernatural 14x17 (orange slice)
From: [personal profile] oldtoadwoman
Is there a reason they chose 60 words as a target? I hadn't seen fics shorter than drabbles before. (And I struggle to convey anything meaningful in 100 words. 60 is quite impressive.)

Re: 🧡

Date: 2020-07-06 07:01 pm (UTC)
peoriapeoriawhereart: orange sun backlights tree (in Africa)
From: [personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart
There are 14 word fics.

[personal profile] smallhobbit, did anyone manage to get Babylonians into one of those 60 word fics? What with the degrees and minutes.

Date: 2020-07-06 09:37 pm (UTC)
corvidology: Cuppa from Sean of the Dead ([EMO] CUPPA)
From: [personal profile] corvidology
And now I'm thinking about trifle... I'm not sure if I should thank you for that or not. :D

Date: 2020-07-07 04:16 am (UTC)
margaret_r: (Default)
From: [personal profile] margaret_r
What a yummy sounding trifle, we have a mandarin tree, maybe I should try it. We also have an orange tree and the oranges are just staring to nicely ripen.

Date: 2020-07-07 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] luthienberen
Your citrus fruit trifle sounds scrumptious!

Amused greatly by the tale of your cats, ours have had varying temperaments and intelligence too.

Date: 2020-07-07 09:37 pm (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Default)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
I have an orange cat and she is so, so naughty!

Date: 2020-07-07 10:34 pm (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Default)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
Sometimes hahaha. When she's sleepy.

Date: 2020-07-09 02:39 am (UTC)
adafrog: (Default)
From: [personal profile] adafrog
3. No way. It would survive the trip?

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