{"id":5249,"date":"2023-07-15T06:08:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T06:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2023-06-24T15:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T15:15:55","slug":"tales-from-the-town-118-teds-shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2023\/07\/15\/tales-from-the-town-118-teds-shed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #118: Ted&#8217;s Shed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Ted&#8217;s collection of Ted&#8217;s things in Ted&#8217;s shoeboxes in Ted&#8217;s shed in Ted&#8217;s Mum&#8217;s garden there currently resided:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Spider (large)<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Spiders (small)<br \/>\n<strong>3.<\/strong> Cockroach collection<br \/>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> Mouse (dead) + maggots (not dead)<br \/>\n<strong>5.<\/strong> Slow worm<br \/>\n<strong>6.<\/strong> Fast worm<br \/>\n<strong>7.<\/strong> More worms (various speeds)<br \/>\n<strong>8.<\/strong> [Escaped]<br \/>\n<strong>9.<\/strong> Stick insect<br \/>\n<strong>10<\/strong>. Stick that looks like an insect<br \/>\n<strong>11.<\/strong> Cocoon (unknown inhabitant)<br \/>\n<strong>12.<\/strong> Wasps&#8217; nest (empty)<br \/>\n<strong>13.<\/strong> Bee hive (full)<br \/>\n<strong>14.<\/strong> Ant colony (writhing)<br \/>\n<strong>15.<\/strong> Cat (asleep)<br \/>\n<strong>16.<\/strong> Rock that looks like a fossil but probably isn&#8217;t a fossil<br \/>\n<strong>17.<\/strong> Rock that doesn&#8217;t look like a fossil but actually is a fossil<br \/>\n<strong>18.<\/strong> Assorted skulls<br \/>\n<strong>19.<\/strong> Assorted bones<br \/>\n<strong>20. <\/strong>Snails<br \/>\n<strong>21.<\/strong> Slugs<br \/>\n<strong>22.<\/strong> Slugs AND snails<br \/>\n<strong>23.<\/strong> Venus fly traps (plus slugs)<br \/>\n<strong>24.<\/strong> Shoes (plus snails)<br \/>\n<strong>25. <\/strong>Feathers (unsorted)<br \/>\n<strong>26.<\/strong> Eggs (dozen)<br \/>\n<strong>27.<\/strong> Discarded Selenite shell<br \/>\n<strong>28.<\/strong> Doll (awake)<br \/>\n<strong>29.<\/strong> Rusted toy car collection (plus a space shuttle)<br \/>\n<strong>30.<\/strong> Toenails\/teeth (own)<br \/>\n<strong>31-50.<\/strong> [Awaiting exhibits]<\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written on 26th May, 2023<\/em><br \/>\n2. <em>Ted previously appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2021\/12\/04\/tales-from-the-town-34-the-boy-with-the-box-parts-1-2-and-3\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tale #34: The Boy With The Box<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n3. <em>In case you had forgotten such a memorable chapter in all our lives<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ted&#8217;s collection of Ted&#8217;s things in Ted&#8217;s shoeboxes in Ted&#8217;s shed in Ted&#8217;s Mum&#8217;s garden there currently resided: 1. Spider (large) 2. Spiders (small) 3. Cockroach collection 4. Mouse (dead) + maggots (not dead) 5. Slow worm 6. Fast worm 7. More worms (various speeds) 8. [Escaped] 9. Stick insect 10. Stick that looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[415,1470,155,1209,1471],"class_list":["post-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-lists","tag-shoeboxes","tag-spiders","tag-tales-from-the-town","tag-ted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}