Womble Anniversary

The Wombles are 47 years old today. The show featured the stories of large rodent-like creatures as they recycled and upcycled people's trash on Wimbledon Common. I do, of course, still sing the song whenever someone mentions a trigger word or phrase (like Wimbledon, Tobermory, Wellington or "common are we").

The BBC has a bit of their history here. 

It doesn't mention the most fascinating fact, which is that Chris Spedding, early Sex Pistols adopter, was the Womble with the Gibson Flying V. 

I do remember reading some urban fantasy book about London which featured a parody of the Wombles as thuggish, working class, bad guy-adjacent gangsters. I cannot imagine how anyone could get such a hate-on for the Wombles, who were at their uttermost merely harmless, and generally speaking positive. They taught us to recycle in 1973, for example. Forty seven years later it's a lesson worth repeating.