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Are Wombles real??

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fucketynamechanged · 13/05/2018 00:52

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

Thank you

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DoryNow · 13/05/2018 19:55

There are earrings !!!

Can’t get the fuckers to load -hang on .

ScreamingValenta · 13/05/2018 19:58

Bearing in mind that Alderney Womble is very feisty, some posters need to speak of her with a little more respect and decorum! Grin

DoryNow · 13/05/2018 20:00

Sorry charm bracelet not earrings !

Are Wombles real??
ScreamingValenta · 13/05/2018 20:02

You could easily convert them into earrings, Dory.

MiddleClassProblem · 13/05/2018 20:03

In Wimbledon they have womble bollards instead of penguin bollards.

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 13/05/2018 20:06

We had one of these in the 1970s

Are Wombles real??
TracyBeakerSoYeah · 13/05/2018 20:07

Meant to add it's a night light not a garden ornament.

VQ1970 · 13/05/2018 20:11

RafalsTheKingOfClay I don’t think they like the crapauds, donkeys are much kinder to them.

ErrolTheDragon · 13/05/2018 20:14

This is weird... why?
www.wayfair.co.uk/Paul-Neuhauss-Womble-Collection-X129344.html

Rachie1986 · 13/05/2018 20:16

Tyne I still did think that! I've never thought of it the other way!

I'm off to question everyone I know!

Feckitall · 13/05/2018 20:20

think I have just dropped into alternative universe..Grin

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 13/05/2018 20:22

As a donkey, I was trying to be diplomatic, VQ.

Obviously Wombkes know better than to go to the wrong island Wink

Shockers · 13/05/2018 20:23

What about a wimbling of wombles?

IveGotBillsTheyreMultiplying · 13/05/2018 20:25

They're not just in Wimbledon

IveGotBillsTheyreMultiplying · 13/05/2018 20:26

A burrow of wombles, clearly

GreatUncleBulgariaWomble · 13/05/2018 20:29

Hello, young Wombles

Now, what's all this about Madame Cholet and me? I've never heard such nonsense in all my 300 years! Have you been listening to young Bungo again?

To more important matters ... has anyone tidied up a copy of The Times yet?

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Ikabod · 13/05/2018 20:33

@TyneTeas me too (the Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we). I

OvergroundWomblingFree · 13/05/2018 20:41

Personally I couldn't be friends with someone who disbelieved in Wombles. They put the rest of us at risk with their selfish refusal to acknowledge the facts and I wouldn't want them around my children.

AdaColeman · 13/05/2018 21:26

Surely a group of Wombles is called a Gathering or a Collection?

OvergroundWomblingFree · 13/05/2018 21:45

Well I just read a group of Wombles is called a "shuffle" upon googling

MenopausalMaud · 13/05/2018 21:45

They are real but according to the song they are common so you probably wouldn't want to befriend them :)

PanPanPanPing · 13/05/2018 21:47

Rafals' I think you might have missed the bit when I said I was drinking rather a lot of Pernod back in those days?!?! It's a miracle I managed to see anything in Alderney, let alone a few Wombles!

AvoidingDM · 13/05/2018 22:01

Tyneteas - we owned a very similar lampshade. Sadly it was replaced with a pink number with fringes!

AvoidingDM · 13/05/2018 22:03

This is the one we owned

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Japanesejazz · 13/05/2018 22:05

I ran over one once. I did do CPR at the side of the road but to no avail. I’m still in therapy but it did make a nice rug, the fur is so soft

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