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

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.
 
> >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.

				TTFN
					Jon
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