May I introduce myself, my name is Belinda but most people call me Beau (pronounced Bo!) This is my first post here so no one knows me yet and I think it will be interesting to see what you make of my three facts. I have intentionally chosen three colourful facts and hope they don't give the wrong impression! Here goes:
1. I stood in for HM the Queen at Wellington Barracks at a full colour band practice for her birthday celebrations in 2010.
2. I turned down a part in a film about The Beatles and their early days in Hamburg. The film was called 'Backbeat'.
3. I owned a share in a stunning 'fleabitten grey' race horse called 'The Oil Baron' out of a stallion called Absalom who was trained by Richard Hannon and won several races over the sticks (National Hunt)
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Beau x
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Hello Beau and welcome to the group. I was interested to read your profile and hope we will be hearing more from you.
Your facts - given your choice of Beau "filly" as a name I will believe your fleabitten grey. The other two were difficult to choose from but standing in for the Queen - well I guess someone has to! So it has to be the film about the Beatles. My guess is that it is partially true but you didn't turn it down!
Welcome to the site Beau - what an interesting profile and thought-provoking first post. You have a snake and there is beauty in your name which means 'beautiful serpent'. What an enigmatic introduction.
Now, yours is a difficult one because we've only just got to know you. I wonder if horses, horse-racing, trooping of the colour are linked so that turning down a part in Backbeat is false? Then I wondered whether you play cameo roles so could you have acted both in Backbeat and have been employed as an 'extra' for the Trooping of the Guard practice?
This is an outside bet- but I'm going for the racing theme - I'm going to say you didn't own a share in a stunning 'fleabitten grey' race horse called 'The Oil Baron'.
I can't wait to hear which are the correct ones - and to get to know you more. I'm sure you'll find much comfort and friendship on the site.
I've has a peep at your profile and would share with you that for the longest time I was a member of the Lucciano Pavarotti Appreciation Society AND I love a bit of fresh powder too! I came to singki late in life when I had to stop riding but the joy of it fair took my breath away.
Ah - powder - skiing - there was me thinking greasepaint and powder in another of our threads. You'll see from my posts that I like quite a few outdoorsy things such as sailing, swimming and cycling. I'm not actually a terribly sporty person and once made a huge gaff saying that I only like sports beginning with 's' ... you can imagine where everyone's mind went after that statement!
Now don't get me on skiing or I'll never stop. I'm hoping to organise a bit of a family skiing party next spring so my four-year old grand-daughters can start. It's the best holiday in the world to my mind. White snow, blue sky, sun, terror and total exhilaration. Another trip skiing with my family is definitely on my bucket list.
I love horses. We lived near Epsom Downs for many years so I was spoilt with some of the best riding country in the UK. For some reason I never got into racing. It was quite a shock moving to Mid-Wales many years ago to find out how much more difficult it is to ride in a rural area where there are unsympathetic farmers and no bridleways.
I can relate to your joining the Pavarotti Appreciation Society. We're lucky having the Welsh National Opera on my doorstep. A neighbour plays first fiddle so we can sometimes get in to the dress rehearsals which I've come to enjoy almost more than the performances.
xxxx Annie
Hello Beau. Welcome to the site, even though none of us would have chosen to be here. Like Annie, I find your profile and your 'facts' intriguing. I wonder if you stood in for the Queen or if a friend did it. Did you turn down a chance to be in a film about the Beatles? And the horse; there's something very authentic about the expressions you used. Nevertheless, I think I'm going to say the horse is the red herring!
Thank you for your welcome and guess and well done!
I wasn't quite born in the saddle but have certainly spent many years in one. I love horses with a passion, any horse, it doesn't even have to be mine. I used to have a foal called Blue who was turned out with another foal we called Red but I have never had a horse called Herring
The 'falsie' is the race horse but maybe not as you would think. I didn't own a share in him, he was all mine lol I bought him from the stable of Lord Peter Mayhew. I saw him at auction but couldn't bid as my partner wasn't there. I grimaced and foot stamped all weeked because he should have been mine only to get a phone call from his old stable hand saying he had been returned as the new owners couldn't handle him. I drove the lorry up to collect him and paid the princely sum of £600 for the old boy (including tack) and never looked back (too busy clinging on for dear life).
The other two truths are just that. A dear chum is the RSM of Wellington Bks who organises much of the pagentry involving the army in London and he invited me, Jim and one other to the band practice where I was put on the 'X' where the Queen would be standing to take the salute! I went very red at the time lol
The part in the film 'Backbeat' was turned down as they wanted me to be a lesbian with a shaven head in a bar kellar (no disrespect to shaven headed Lesbians or any other sexualities which are available and just as good!). I was only there to do the cattering for goodness sake! Aside from that I had recently parted from my husband and he would have told everyone who would have listened that I was infact a Lesbian with a shaven head and thats why we broke up. I wasn't prepared to hand him that one on a plate bless.
so, well done to those that sniffed out my horsey tale/tail and here's to a few more laughs together on this dificult journey. If our Cancers teach us one thing it needs to be the joy of love and laughter in all things even our tears
Hi Beau welcome to our love;ly site. I did get it right but I am not clever enough to have workerd it out your name has filly in it and I knew this was a horse.
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