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

Crabb that's hilarious, love Katherine Parkinson & now she has gone up in my estimation!!

So folks where do we stand on Hefflelumps then eh?

Heffalumps are a Bad Thing. They compete for space with Wombles.

Interesting Womble Trivia: Clangers are actually wombles who've evolved to adapt to zero gravity. It happened when Orinoco tidied up a broken space rocket, and Tobermory fitted it with a new clockwork motor and sent some young wombles up to the moon.

If ever you travel on London Overground, remember the Wombles. That is where the name Overground came from, apparently.

Never stand on a heffalump. The Woozels don't like it.

And remember, no matter how hard they beg, NEVER feed your Gremlin after midnight

But what we all need to know, and I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, is how do wombles reproduce? The whole subject is shrouded in mystery. It bothers me that that might mean it's deeply sordid.

of course wombles are real, and are related to those scots creatures, the Haggis..

(well I always used to think a haggis was a real creature that lived on the scottish moors..)

Classics!

Ah yes, this thread would be why I woke up with the Wombles theme tune stuck in my head!

Glad to see it isn't just me hearing the common bit the same

And I have just remembered I had a Wombles lightshade when I was a kid, different panels for each Womble. Loved it as much as any child could love a 70s plastic lightshade

I heard breeding was encouraged to keep MPs off the committee n after the Ron Davies incident in Clapham.

*I heard breeding was encouraged to keep MPs off the common after the Ron Davies incident in Clapham.

They ARE real. The real wombles are closely related to hedgehogs and gained their reputation for litter clearing from their ability, much like their cousins the hedgehogs, to roll into a ball and pick up bits of rubbish on their spikes whilst whizzing over the ground.

Then there’s matzohs. Arthur Miller’s mother gave Marilyn Monroe matzoh balls in her chicken soup and Marilyn was disappointed that there was no other part of the animal that you could eat.

Wombles really tail walk Wimbledon Parkrun

They must be real or my username is a lie!

"how do wombles reproduce?"

Madame Cholet trysts with Uncle Bulgaria

They cuddle!

Bloody hell didn't expect to wake up to so many replies.

friend is being so fucking smug like she's brain of Britain

Anyway. Thank you

Of course they're real. I've got one. He's a rare Welsh grey-faced Womble, as opposed to the more common brown-faced ones.

AuntieStella But Great Uncle Bulgaria said there were 200 wombles in the Wimbledon burrow. Madame Cholet would spend her whole life being pregnant, unless wombles have insanely large litters of 20 baby wombles at a time.

@EspressoButler That sign has made my day

One of them sings for the band Idlewild....

They are real, yes. Here is one playing with my cat.