From Jackie (June 2009)
What do wombats do in their spare time?
Most wombats spend their lives finding food and water to stay alive. But a few of the wild wombats at our place have struck it lucky. They get to eat the leftover rich food – alpaca mix and oats and other goodies from the wombats we care for.
Which means they don’t have to spend nearly as much time looking for their own food.
So do wombats develop hobbies? Contemplate the universe?
Actually they seem to sleep a lot. Which makes sense. When you’re an Australian marsupial in a land of droughts it makes sense to sleep whenever you don’t need to be out looking for food.
They seem to dig a bit more too, though only the young ones, sometimes new holes but mostly renovating old ones, up to two or three wheel barrow fulls of dirt and rocks can be excavated in a night.
But mostly they just become picky eaters. Instead of chomping the grass like lawn mowers they nibble a choice bit here, some tussock over there. And then go back to bed. . . . read on

The first web entry from 1999
Hi,
This site is a (probably vain) attempt to cut down on the number of letters in our overstuffed mailbox up in town. I try to answer all kid's letters, (a few thousand a year), but most adult enquiries are slowly eaten by silverfish in the pile by the sofa that the wombat knocked off the table last December and I haven't got round to collecting yet...
Some time or other we'll get round to throwing them in the compost.

Hopefully, the stuff in here will give kids enough material for their projects, and let everyone else find out which book they need to get out of the library to find out what they want to know or if you're feeling flush you can buy it from the contacts supplied.

I only have two hands (both of which are sometimes occupied with things other than answering mail), one tired brain and a computer that depends on sun or a creek powered waterwheel to power it.

But I promise - the answers are in the books, somewhere. (I did keep my fingers crossed with that promise.)

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