“What are you watching, Daniel?” Claire asked.<\/p>\n
“Curling,” Daniel said.<\/p>\n
“What?”<\/p>\n
“Curling,” said Daniel.<\/p>\n
“Curling is not a sport, Daniel.”<\/p>\n
“It’s a game!” <\/p>\n
“It’s not even a game.”<\/p>\n
“It is!”<\/p>\n
“Is not! Look, they’ve got brooms!”<\/p>\n
“So?”<\/p>\n
“That means it’s not a game, it’s a chore<\/em>.”<\/p>\n “Says who?”<\/p>\n “Says me. Remember when Mum told us to play the sweeping up game?”<\/p>\n “Yes! That was so much fun!”<\/p>\n “Daniel! That wasn’t a game.”<\/p>\n “What was it then?”<\/p>\n “She was just making us tidy up the kitchen!”<\/p>\n “Because someone<\/em> had fallen through the window and then traipsed mud all over the floor?”<\/p>\n “Exactly!”<\/p>\n “So wait, you’re saying that someone’s<\/em> fallen through the window and traipsed mud all over the ice? At the Olympics?”<\/p>\n “Yes.” <\/p>\n “And Mum’s making them tidy it up?”<\/p>\n “Well, not our<\/em> Mum.”<\/p>\n “Oh.”<\/p>\n “But someone’s<\/em>!”<\/p>\n __________<\/p>\n Notes:<\/p>\n 1. Written in January 2026<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br> “What are you watching, Daniel?” Claire asked. “Curling,” Daniel said. “What?” “Curling,” said Daniel. “Curling is not a sport, Daniel.” “It’s a game!” “It’s not even a game.” “It is!” “Is not! Look, they’ve got brooms!” “So?” “That means it’s not a game, it’s a chore.” “Says who?” “Says me. Remember when Mum told us […]<\/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":[1649,545,1209],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-curling","tag-sport","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","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=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6107,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"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":"