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Tales From The Town #65: The Lodger (Methods Of Success)
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... f-success/
He said all the right things to the right people, smiled the right smiles, stared into their eyes with exactly the right intensity to suggest sincerity. No matter what he did, what he said, those fluttering eyes of his would convince you it wasn’t his fault. It was yours.
“No, no, I should be the one apologising to you,” Agnes said to him, as she surveyed the wreckage beneath the tree. The ruined swing, the broken branch, the sullen children mourning their loss. “I should have told you it was only strong enough for the kids…”
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... f-success/
He said all the right things to the right people, smiled the right smiles, stared into their eyes with exactly the right intensity to suggest sincerity. No matter what he did, what he said, those fluttering eyes of his would convince you it wasn’t his fault. It was yours.
“No, no, I should be the one apologising to you,” Agnes said to him, as she surveyed the wreckage beneath the tree. The ruined swing, the broken branch, the sullen children mourning their loss. “I should have told you it was only strong enough for the kids…”
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Ooo! Intriguing!
*thumbs up*
*thumbs up*
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It is saturday again
Tales From The Town #66: Minor Complaints
1: Poetical Complaints
“Claire, you’ve stolen my poetry books again!” Tina said. “Stop stealing my poetry books!”
“I have not!” Claire said. “I don’t even like poetry.”
“You do like poetry,” Tina said. “You just pretend you don’t because I like poetry.”
“That might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard,” Claire said. “The reason I don’t like poetry is because it’s stupid and you’re stupid and I didn’t steal your poetry books anyway so who cares what I think of poetry!”
“Well if you didn’t steal them who did?” Tina said. “And don’t blame Daniel or Ethel because I already asked them and they definitely didn’t steal any.”
“I don’t know and I don’t care,” Claire said. “Maybe no one stole them. Maybe you never even HAD any poetry books in the first place and you’ve made all this up to annoy me.”
“Of course I had some poetry books,” Tina said. “I write all my poems in them. Which is why I want at least one of them back right now, Claire! Because I just wrote a poem.”
“Well you don’t need your poetry book back then,” Claire said. “Seeing as you’ve already written this one down somewhere else. Use that as a poetry book instead.”
“But I can’t. I wrote it in my head!” Tina said. “I need to get it out of there as quickly as possible!”
Claire snorted at this in derision. “The only thing worse than poetry,” she said, as she stomped down the stairs. “Is poets!”
2: Technological Complaints
“Have you seen my phone, Oya?”
“No. Actually, I was just going to ask you if you’ve seen mine.”
“I haven’t. I was planning on using it to ring mine.”
“And I was planning on using yours to ring mine.”
“I told you we should buy a spare one for emergencies.”
“Wait, I told you we should buy a spare one for emergencies.”
“If only we’d listened to each other!”
“But then what if we lost that one as well? How many spare ones would we need before it was physically impossible to lose all of them at once?”
“We could glue one of them to the desk.”
“That’s not a bad idea actually. Maybe tape another one to the wall.”
“It’ll be like we’re living in the 80s!”
“One of us could have a pager!”
“I don’t even know how pagers work!”
“They’re like twitter I think. But just one message at a time. And the message is a number that you have to decode.”
“That sounds brilliant.”
“It does, doesn’t it?”
“Why don’t we still do that? Imagine having to take out a little notebook from your pocket every time you get a message just so you can look up what it means and who it was from!”
“Not a notebook. A filofax!”
(laughter)
“So anyway, I wonder where our phones went.”
3: Artistic Complaints
“Mum, have you seen our paintings of the whale that we made?” Ethel asked
“The whale AND the penguin,” Daniel added. “And a heron.”
“We were going to show them to Lucas,” Ethel said. “But now we can’t find them.”
“Weren’t they hanging from the washing line?” Agnes said. “That’s where I saw them.”
“But we looked there and the only thing on the washing line is some sheets,” Ethel said.
“And some of our paint,” Daniel said. “Which is now on the sheets.”
“So our paintings are back to front!” Ethel said. “We can’t show Lucas back to front paintings.”
“Maybe Lucas will like that,” Agnes said. “Considering you keep telling me he lives in the mirror.”
“But we painted them back to front because he lives in the mirror,” Ethel said.
“So now they’re front to back,” Daniel said.
“Which will be completely back to front by the time Lucas sees them,” Ethel said. “It’s a disaster!”
Ethel and Daniel put their hands in the air and ran out of the kitchen screaming in unison.
“You could turn the sheets round,” Agnes called after them in her ever practical way, but Ethel and Daniel were having none of it. Panicking was too much fun.
Tales From The Town #66: Minor Complaints
1: Poetical Complaints
“Claire, you’ve stolen my poetry books again!” Tina said. “Stop stealing my poetry books!”
“I have not!” Claire said. “I don’t even like poetry.”
“You do like poetry,” Tina said. “You just pretend you don’t because I like poetry.”
“That might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard,” Claire said. “The reason I don’t like poetry is because it’s stupid and you’re stupid and I didn’t steal your poetry books anyway so who cares what I think of poetry!”
“Well if you didn’t steal them who did?” Tina said. “And don’t blame Daniel or Ethel because I already asked them and they definitely didn’t steal any.”
“I don’t know and I don’t care,” Claire said. “Maybe no one stole them. Maybe you never even HAD any poetry books in the first place and you’ve made all this up to annoy me.”
“Of course I had some poetry books,” Tina said. “I write all my poems in them. Which is why I want at least one of them back right now, Claire! Because I just wrote a poem.”
“Well you don’t need your poetry book back then,” Claire said. “Seeing as you’ve already written this one down somewhere else. Use that as a poetry book instead.”
“But I can’t. I wrote it in my head!” Tina said. “I need to get it out of there as quickly as possible!”
Claire snorted at this in derision. “The only thing worse than poetry,” she said, as she stomped down the stairs. “Is poets!”
2: Technological Complaints
“Have you seen my phone, Oya?”
“No. Actually, I was just going to ask you if you’ve seen mine.”
“I haven’t. I was planning on using it to ring mine.”
“And I was planning on using yours to ring mine.”
“I told you we should buy a spare one for emergencies.”
“Wait, I told you we should buy a spare one for emergencies.”
“If only we’d listened to each other!”
“But then what if we lost that one as well? How many spare ones would we need before it was physically impossible to lose all of them at once?”
“We could glue one of them to the desk.”
“That’s not a bad idea actually. Maybe tape another one to the wall.”
“It’ll be like we’re living in the 80s!”
“One of us could have a pager!”
“I don’t even know how pagers work!”
“They’re like twitter I think. But just one message at a time. And the message is a number that you have to decode.”
“That sounds brilliant.”
“It does, doesn’t it?”
“Why don’t we still do that? Imagine having to take out a little notebook from your pocket every time you get a message just so you can look up what it means and who it was from!”
“Not a notebook. A filofax!”
(laughter)
“So anyway, I wonder where our phones went.”
3: Artistic Complaints
“Mum, have you seen our paintings of the whale that we made?” Ethel asked
“The whale AND the penguin,” Daniel added. “And a heron.”
“We were going to show them to Lucas,” Ethel said. “But now we can’t find them.”
“Weren’t they hanging from the washing line?” Agnes said. “That’s where I saw them.”
“But we looked there and the only thing on the washing line is some sheets,” Ethel said.
“And some of our paint,” Daniel said. “Which is now on the sheets.”
“So our paintings are back to front!” Ethel said. “We can’t show Lucas back to front paintings.”
“Maybe Lucas will like that,” Agnes said. “Considering you keep telling me he lives in the mirror.”
“But we painted them back to front because he lives in the mirror,” Ethel said.
“So now they’re front to back,” Daniel said.
“Which will be completely back to front by the time Lucas sees them,” Ethel said. “It’s a disaster!”
Ethel and Daniel put their hands in the air and ran out of the kitchen screaming in unison.
“You could turn the sheets round,” Agnes called after them in her ever practical way, but Ethel and Daniel were having none of it. Panicking was too much fun.
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Last week's was long so this week's is short
Tales From The Town #67: Midnight Disco
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... ght-disco/
Daniel showed the cat his moves. No one else was allowed to see.
Tales From The Town #67: Midnight Disco
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... ght-disco/
Daniel showed the cat his moves. No one else was allowed to see.
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Good stuff!dng wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:54 am Last week's was long so this week's is short
Tales From The Town #67: Midnight Disco
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... ght-disco/
Daniel showed the cat his moves. No one else was allowed to see.
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And I haff no complaints about Minor Complaints - it were a fun reade!
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Hooray. Thank you
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Tales From The Town #68: Surveillance Tapes (1-4)
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... tapes-1-4/
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... tapes-1-4/
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Jolly good, Davuss!
The back and forth dialogue of 3. By the swing (after school), is really nice! Dig the cassette drawing, too!
The back and forth dialogue of 3. By the swing (after school), is really nice! Dig the cassette drawing, too!
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i love cassettes and always will
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also thank you
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More tapes:
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... tapes-5-7/
(for some reason this weeks illustration looks like a cybermans head)
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... tapes-5-7/
(for some reason this weeks illustration looks like a cybermans head)
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More tapes - more goodness! Yo!
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Great work, Davuss!
Proto-thoughts
Poor beetle.
Gravitational forces - lovely, and would make a good 1970s prog-rock album cover!
MOAR PROTO-THOUGHTS 2 FOLLOW...
Proto-thoughts
Poor beetle.
Gravitational forces - lovely, and would make a good 1970s prog-rock album cover!
MOAR PROTO-THOUGHTS 2 FOLLOW...
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Tales From The Town #69: The Children’s Court (first session)
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... t-session/
(more transcripts that have too much fiddly text formatting for me to retry here)
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... t-session/
(more transcripts that have too much fiddly text formatting for me to retry here)
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This: "Tales From The Town #69: The Children’s Court (first session)"
Is dialoguetastic!
And I approvez!
Is dialoguetastic!
And I approvez!
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Hooray. Thnk you homfrus
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Tale #70: The History Of The Mirror
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... he-mirror/
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... e-history/
Tale #71: The Mirror Of The History
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... he-mirror/
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... e-history/
Tale #71: The Mirror Of The History
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Dig the concept and execution! *thumbs up*
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Tales From The Town #72: The Children's Court (second session)dng wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:49 am Tales From The Town #69: The Children’s Court (first session)
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... t-session/
(more transcripts that have too much fiddly text formatting for me to retry here)
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... d-session/
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Bickering FTW! 
Hurrah!
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*thumbs up* Nice work!
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more tapes (with some added back to school, and some moon chat)
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... pes-27-30/
(and no picture because I haven't drawn it yet)
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... pes-27-30/
(and no picture because I haven't drawn it yet)
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Wait I've drawn one now
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I enjoyed those, especially 'Detention' - that was delightful!
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hooray, thank you
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Tales From The Town #75: Statues At Noon
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... s-at-noon/
They stood like statues on the crest of the hill overlooking the house, stone watchers standing in judgement over all they surveyed. All that moved was their hair in the wind. No one knew where they had come from nor when they would leave. Perhaps only when all our crimes had been confessed would they disappear.
“This,” said Claire, through gritted teeth and clamped closed lips. “Is the worst game ever!”
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... s-at-noon/
They stood like statues on the crest of the hill overlooking the house, stone watchers standing in judgement over all they surveyed. All that moved was their hair in the wind. No one knew where they had come from nor when they would leave. Perhaps only when all our crimes had been confessed would they disappear.
“This,” said Claire, through gritted teeth and clamped closed lips. “Is the worst game ever!”
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I like that!
Also I'm not sure if you're aware, David, but Last Of The Summer Wine features very similar long shots to the one you've drawn!
Also I'm not sure if you're aware, David, but Last Of The Summer Wine features very similar long shots to the one you've drawn!
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I am, as always, in debt to the classics
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In last of th esumemr wine one of the figures would have been trig
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Yuss! Me loikes!
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two more mild tales in this spread out and neverending lodger saga
#77: the lodger: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... f-failure/
#78: in the woods in the early autumn: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... ly-autumn/
#77: the lodger: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... f-failure/
#78: in the woods in the early autumn: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... ly-autumn/
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#77 is nice, but #78 is excellent! Digs the #78 artwork, also! Yo!
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Hooray, thank ye
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Tales From The Town #79: Beneath The Witch’s Hat
These were just some of the things the dolls had seen the witch pull from beneath her hat as she went about her work, or so they said.
1. Needle. 2. Thread. 3. Wool. 4. Twine. 5. Yarn. 6. Wire. 7. Ligament. 8. Vein. 9. Small patch of cloth. 10. Small patch of leather. 11. Small tuft of hair. 12. Handheld catapult. 13. Model trebuchet. 14. Glass eye (several). 15. Pebbles (various). 16. Marbles (bag of). 17. Earth (handful). 18. Potted plant (japonica). 19. Potted plant (rose, with thorns). 20. Potted plant (assortment of cacti). 21. Potted plant (bonsai). 22. Small hat. 23. Large hat. 24. Medium hat. 25. Clockwork brain. 26. Clockwork heart/lungs. 27. Clockwork Bagpuss. 28. Cloth Bagpuss. 29. Flesh Bagpuss. 30. Newts. 31. Fungal spores. 32. Epoxy resin. 33. Gloy 33. That glue that smells like fish. 34. Doll’s leg (left). 35. Doll’s arm (reversible). 36. Butterfly swarm (as distraction). 37. Night. 38. Telescope. 39. Reading glasses. 39. Writing glasses. 40. Microscope. 41. Electron (singular). 42. Proton (en masse). 43. Molecular model (for illustrative purposes). 44. Skull (mouse). 45. Skull (deer). 46. Skull (own). 47. Skull (other). 48. 17 inch metal spike. 49. 11 inch metal spike. 50. 7 inch wooden spike. 51. Chopstick (wooden). 52. Another chopstick (porcelain). 53. Third chopstick (superfluous). 54. Fluff. 55. Lint. 56. Dust. 57. Shoebox (filled with playing cards). 58. Shoebox (filled with teeth). 59. Shoebox (spiders). 60. Shoebox (misc. other items). 61. Toothbrush. 62. Paint (yellow). 63. Paint (white). 62. Hairbrush. 63. Unidentified herbs . 64. Sausage wrapped in bandages. 65. Bread. 66. Photo of the house. 67. Photo of photo of the house. 68. Well water (bucket of). 69. Eel. 70. Heron. 71. Stopwatch. 72. Polaroid camera. 73. Reading monocle. 74. Writing monocle. 75. 1:5000 scale model of town. 76. The mayor. 77. Conker (on string). 78. Acorn (on string). 79. Walnut (no attachments). 80. Rest of Walnut Whirl. 81. Calipers. 82. Bell jar of unidentified eggs in viscous fluid. 83. Salt. 84. False teeth. 85. Actual lips. 86. Tongue (with working papillae). 87. Napkin. 88. An entire doll. 89. List containing items pulled from beneath the witch’s hat already containing its own entry right there on the page, as well as several subsequent items. 90-99. Several subsequent items.
LIST ENDS
These were just some of the things the dolls had seen the witch pull from beneath her hat as she went about her work, or so they said.
1. Needle. 2. Thread. 3. Wool. 4. Twine. 5. Yarn. 6. Wire. 7. Ligament. 8. Vein. 9. Small patch of cloth. 10. Small patch of leather. 11. Small tuft of hair. 12. Handheld catapult. 13. Model trebuchet. 14. Glass eye (several). 15. Pebbles (various). 16. Marbles (bag of). 17. Earth (handful). 18. Potted plant (japonica). 19. Potted plant (rose, with thorns). 20. Potted plant (assortment of cacti). 21. Potted plant (bonsai). 22. Small hat. 23. Large hat. 24. Medium hat. 25. Clockwork brain. 26. Clockwork heart/lungs. 27. Clockwork Bagpuss. 28. Cloth Bagpuss. 29. Flesh Bagpuss. 30. Newts. 31. Fungal spores. 32. Epoxy resin. 33. Gloy 33. That glue that smells like fish. 34. Doll’s leg (left). 35. Doll’s arm (reversible). 36. Butterfly swarm (as distraction). 37. Night. 38. Telescope. 39. Reading glasses. 39. Writing glasses. 40. Microscope. 41. Electron (singular). 42. Proton (en masse). 43. Molecular model (for illustrative purposes). 44. Skull (mouse). 45. Skull (deer). 46. Skull (own). 47. Skull (other). 48. 17 inch metal spike. 49. 11 inch metal spike. 50. 7 inch wooden spike. 51. Chopstick (wooden). 52. Another chopstick (porcelain). 53. Third chopstick (superfluous). 54. Fluff. 55. Lint. 56. Dust. 57. Shoebox (filled with playing cards). 58. Shoebox (filled with teeth). 59. Shoebox (spiders). 60. Shoebox (misc. other items). 61. Toothbrush. 62. Paint (yellow). 63. Paint (white). 62. Hairbrush. 63. Unidentified herbs . 64. Sausage wrapped in bandages. 65. Bread. 66. Photo of the house. 67. Photo of photo of the house. 68. Well water (bucket of). 69. Eel. 70. Heron. 71. Stopwatch. 72. Polaroid camera. 73. Reading monocle. 74. Writing monocle. 75. 1:5000 scale model of town. 76. The mayor. 77. Conker (on string). 78. Acorn (on string). 79. Walnut (no attachments). 80. Rest of Walnut Whirl. 81. Calipers. 82. Bell jar of unidentified eggs in viscous fluid. 83. Salt. 84. False teeth. 85. Actual lips. 86. Tongue (with working papillae). 87. Napkin. 88. An entire doll. 89. List containing items pulled from beneath the witch’s hat already containing its own entry right there on the page, as well as several subsequent items. 90-99. Several subsequent items.
LIST ENDS
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i like lists
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That's a delightful list!
73/74/33/29/64/79/53/29 are particular faves.
73/74/33/29/64/79/53/29 are particular faves.
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I like that - it's the best forecast Bill Giles ever delivered on BBC weather.
Nice visuaals, an' all!
Nice visuaals, an' all!
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A most pleasant read.
Also - Daniel is best.
Also - Daniel is best.