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Today, amongst other things we minded Abigial after school for a time. The games vary a lot from playing school to drawing and colouring in. This time though, Abigail wanted to play with the Joseph Narrative cast of stick people (with a few from the Wizard of Oz). It was nice to see them come out of their boxes again. It is amazing how a crowd of stick people will make a game come alive and lead into a new story each time. On this occasion, the Wizard and the Queen of Egypt developed an uneasy relationship which ranged from enemy to marriage and back again. That was the subplot. At a higher narrative level, there was a grand food distribution to each of the queen's people and that took some time and there were many queues. Quite a story. When children play they are doing important work for life.