According to the sounds in my lounge room, Jackie French is coming to swancon, and bringing her wombat—who’s going to be dressing up as a robot! And then they’re going rogaining, and then, her wombat is the first wombat going into space! (He’s a remarkably <i>literate</i> wombat, too… spends a portion of the time reading to Jackie French!)

(They’ve been playing ‘Jackie French and Wombat’ for about a week or so… always ‘Jackie French’ to distinguish from the Jackie we know:-) I’m not quite sure <i>why</i> they are so taken with them… we have a number of her books, both gardening and children’s picture book… that includes Diary of a Wombat—which explains why they associate her with Wombat… but still… I didn’t think we’d talked about her <i>that</i> much:-))

Actually, it’s a text book example of improvisation, of offer and acceptanc. They both ‘lead’ the play, and make suggestions, without saying ‘you do this’… it’s very cool to listen to:-)