Re: [Very OT] Re: Re Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we!

In message <B0000228587@rincewind.sar.bolton.ac.uk> "Jonathan White"
writes:
> On 30 Jul 98, at 10:44, Kelvin Henderson wrote:
> Why am I getting involved in this :)
> 
> > >Or Australia for that matter :) 
> > >The guy who wrote it was actually a girl - Elisabeth Beresford.
> I think she might be flattered to be described as a 'girl'. She's not
a spring chec
> 
> > >And as for the song...
> > <Snip a song that shaped my childhood>
> It was the best selling single in the UK at one point. mad.

Mad? It's an excellent song. Mike Batt a is pop god. Much better
than the Smurfs (Jonathan King).

> > >Yes it is probably very sad that I can remember this. 
> > >Beth
> > Hey Beth, there's nothing sad about that at all!  I loved the
Wombles (and
> > still do).	They were a great show for kids and its a darned shame
that
> > its not on TV anymore.
> Um, up until recently it was back on - sort of a 'Wombles : The Next
Generation' but with 
> a few of the old ones too. They've broken the scheme of them all being
named after 
> Islands for the new ones though. Bummer. Didn't seem the same somehow.

Islands? Orinoco is a river, Wellington a city, Bulgaria is a
country. The Tour de Farce passed through Cholet a few days ago.

What are the new young Wombles called?

-- 
David Brewer