“Two scoops?!” Tina said, wide eyed with awe. “I’ve never had two scoops before.”<\/p>\n
“Mine’s got two scoops too,” said Daniel. “In different flavours!<\/em>”<\/p>\n “Mine has two scoops and a flake!” said Ethel. “I don’t know what’s gotten into dad but I like it.”<\/p>\n “I think maybe he’s just sad,” said Tina. “He’s not been the same since the mermaid ran off with that walrus last year.”<\/p>\n There was a moment of silence as they contemplated their father, as he counted out his sand and seaweed covered coins at the ice cream counter.<\/p>\n “Yeah, well mine has THREE scoops!” Claire shouted, quickly getting back to what was important. “And<\/em> I’ve got two of them!” She pulled her arm out from behind her back with a flourish a magician would have been proud of. “You’ll never beat that!”<\/p>\n __________<\/p>\n Notes:<\/p>\n 1. Written on May 26th, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br> “Two scoops?!” Tina said, wide eyed with awe. “I’ve never had two scoops before.” “Mine’s got two scoops too,” said Daniel. “In different flavours!” “Mine has two scoops and a flake!” said Ethel. “I don’t know what’s gotten into dad but I like it.” “I think maybe he’s just sad,” said Tina. “He’s not been […]<\/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":[1473,39,1209],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-ice-cream","tag-summer","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","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=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5258,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions\/5258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my patreon<\/a> or my ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br>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>(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":"