So it’s the day after and phew! That was one interesting experiment in twenty-first century wombling…
Here’s a photo of Tobermory helping me sand down a beautiful door rescued from a skip:

And a chair fixed up with new legs from wood found in another skip, done by the awesome Ryan Frank:

We would like to thank Stephen [...]

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Say hello to Tobermory (NOT the capital of the Isle of Mull), the talented Womble engineer!
Tobermory is a skilled inventor, so you’d be right to think that his practical reuse know-how and Macgyver like ability to make creative reuse of the things that he finds are exactly the kind of qualities we need for The [...]

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Nritu has no memories of the Wombles as she is from Hyderabad in India. However she’s loving them now!
Check her out in her Womble badge…

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Walking home tonight - with all the fantastic stuff the New Malden B&Q have offered for the Big Womble - there outside my flat was a bookcase, a pine desk and a whole lot of potential wombling beauty.
It’s a sign!
You too could find potential around
the corner… let’s get wombling

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here’s a little jpeg to direct Wombles to Wimbledon…

See you there!

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With the Big Womble kicking off this coming Friday 20th February, we’d love to see some of the furniture you’ve found on Freecycle or bought second hand, hand me downs and found objects.
To make it really easy for you to share your images (or video posts if you’d prefer) we made a moblog for everyone [...]

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When a Womble went a-wombling, s/he was always reminded to take their Tidy bag with them to make sure they could carry all the things that they found. What a fantastic idea! But instead of buying one of those new reusable carrier bags from M&S or Sainsbury’s, why not make one from something you’ve got [...]

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Hey there wombles!
We have been flyering at today’s Farmers’ Market to spread the word among the local community about the event.
If you are a Wombledonian, look out for our colourful purple posters, soon to be strewn around the town…

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It’s getting exciting at Womble central.
(ooh, was there a name for the house that the Wombles lived in? Prize for the first to answer)
7 days to go… we have to sweep the floors, gather the sandpaper, spread the word and pick up the Womble costume. Yes, we have a Womble available for the day!
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My name is Hannah and I’m the Coordinator of Big Womble: London.
My memories of the Wombles are a blur of still images and movement. Like the morning after a dream I know that I watched the wombles, but I don’t remember what they said!
My favourite thing about the Wombles was the house, which seemed to [...]

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