The Goblin Post

I just got in this evening and found a letter in our box from eight-year-old Lucy, written in goblin. Except it’s addressed to “Dear Aunty Ali”. Don’t know who Aunty Ali is. I thought I got to be the Fairy Queen ...

Lucy apparently took up my letter with fascination, memorised the whole thing, read it to anyone who would listen and has now written back to me. (I don’t have a scanner at home or I could show you!) She’s done well and even used the double vowel and consonant symbols (it’s a fairly comprehensive alphabet Mr Tolkien put together). This is what it says:

Dear Aunty Ali,

I still like cats and cooking. I don’t like school. Can you come to Brisbane? Thanks for the Easter eggs.

Love from Lucy

(And that took half a page of goblin to write!)