Claim: Me and Dad were relaxing after a hard afternoon's work out at the claim. 
noun. a piece of a mine, that is owned by someone

wobbling: a four-wheel-drive police jeep came wobbling down the creamy red track.
verb. moving with an unsteady motion

startled: My dad turned around, startled.
verb. to move with a quick sudden motion.


figment: Pobby was a figment of her imaginings.
noun. a product of imagination


rummaged: He rummaged through a pile of rocks.
verb. moving around looking for something


ute: I slammed the door of the ute in Dingan's face.
noun. car type


crackpot: Lightning ridge was full of flaming crackpots as far as I could see.
noun. a strange or crazy person


Mello Yello: hiding my anger in a swing from my can of Mello Yello.
noun. a lemonade brand


mates: Dad had become mates with Pobby and Dingan.
noun. friends


opal: My dad would come back from the opal mines covered in dust.
noun. a type of rock

fairdinkum: There’s definitely something in that earth with the name Williamson on it!” “Fairdinkum?”
Austrailian slang word for truth, really, fair

imaginary: I wasn’t crazy enough to talk to imaginary friends.
Noun. Something that you have made up that exists in your head, not usually physical

grub: She said they were quieter and better behaved than me and deserved the grub.
Adjective. Short and thick

fossilized: a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it.
Adjective. Remains of something really old


mammoth: a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it.
Noun. An animal that doesn't exist anymore 

Are Pobby and Dingan real? It depends. In the book Pobby and Dingan, Pobby and dingan are Ashmole's little sister's imaginary friends, that might actually be more than imaginary characters in the book. But if they are imaginary or not in the book, does that make them real or not real. "Things that never existed can’t be dead. Right?” This shows how Ashmole didn't think that Pobby and Dingan were real, at least not in the real physical world.
I think that if they are imaginary, they are real. If they are defined as imaginary characters, and not real people, the fact that they exist in ones imagination, makes the characters real. If you think that is God real or not, you might think that it isn't. But what if God is just an imaginary power in our heads, instead of a actual physical person in the sky, does that make God real. I think that it does, because the definition of God is then something that someone believes in, and it is true that someone believes in God, so God is real.