Are Wombles real??

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Just had an argument with a friend... is there an actual species called Wombles or were they made up creatures?

Thank you

As a child not familiar with London place names I mangled it even more. I thought it was a person singing that line and that it said "the wombles are Wimbledon, common are we" i.e. wombles are rare, Wimbledon must be a synonym for rare seeing as the next part was saying that people are common

I didn't even think of google either

Endangered species now, plastics not helping. Find your inner womble.

I would have thought bettybaggins that the over polification of plastic rubbish would absolutely help wombles, just think of all the stuff they could use it for.

Carrying the othef rubbish they collect
Storing things in the bottles
Using the bags for clothes
......

One of the few if not the only creature helped by plastic rubbish.

wombles can eat plastic, their gut bacteria contains organisms which break it down
the gut bacteria in question are thought to originate in a species of moth which is able to digest plastic

they also shred it up and weave/'knit' it into clothing and textiles for their burrows

As a child I desperately wanted my very own Wombling bag. A white bag with a large red W on it for collecting the things the folk leave behind.

Sigh.

thats the wombles not the moths, moths obviously cant knit whereas wombles have an oppose-able thumb

I thought the song was about common, prolific wombles too!

remember your a womble!

You're not alone, OP.

Of course Wombles are real, so are the Clangers

Although my head tells me Womble & Sooty, Sweep & Sue, Santa too are not really real......
My heart tells me otherwise.
So yes they are real!
(Explain how Sooty always gets me with his water pistol. DD & I have seen him 3 times. Once with Richard & twice with pet sitters other presenters.
And no I don’t always sit in the front row.....learnt the hard way.....& don’t have a sign on me saying ‘Sooty water me’ )

Clangers are an endangered species. Long live the Clangers

@TyneTeas same here! Probably because my grandmother regularly used the word common to refer to most things (patent leather shoes, sandwich shape, not wearing a hat, fork alignment, calling it a scullery, wall to wall carpet, riding in the front seat of a car, wearing a coat indoors, owning rodents as pets, watching itv...)

We are most definitely real.

I was brought up in Wimbledon, they're absolutely real.

Definitely real - I was overtaken by a womble in a marathon once

Definitely real. I met one recently in Scotland on holiday. He was visiting his old uni friend in Loch Ness.

I met Madame Cholet when she and another Womble came to the opening of a newsagents circa 1975!

Mcolll's I think it was and the high street was mobbed!

They even appeared on the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 as the it’s very poor quality sadly.

Maybe the OK was thinking of a wombat

Why is there a load of filth added on here?

wombles.wikia.com/wiki/Wombles_Wiki

Op, I wonder if you have got confused about the fictional Wombles and the real Wombat?

There is a law firm called Womble Bond Dickinson, so at least one of them branched out from refuse collection

Those of you sniggering about Scottish Wombles have clearly never read The Wandering Wombles. There is a sizeable contingent of MacWombles living at Loch Ness and indeed the Loch Ness Monster is proven to be a Water Womble, her train of humps being baby Water Wombles following their Mum.
You "Wombles are not real" people belong over with the flat earthers.

Tobermory was recently spotted. Headline on the bbc news so it MUST be true.

They are real stop motion puppets.