Bubbles

The Film Star

Told by Bubbles himself!

Hello everyone - I'm Bubbles.

 Everybody thinks I'm cute, loveable, and extremely beautiful and guess what? They're right.

 I love showing off and being the centre of attention and my dream is to be a film star.

Aren't I a little shrimp! Nicky is 5 ft 8ins tall

I've already been on T.V several times including:

The BBC children's programme, Blue Peter, The Saturday show,The Home Farm Twins and a few other programmes, Plus: I've been in quite a few magazines

Now at least we can see eye to eye!

One day I was invited up to Caesar’s Night Club in London to take part in a film for American Television.

I was so excited. Mum made me look absolutely gorgeous.

before my hair wash...

Having My Bath

...and after

She gave me a bath, washed and blow-dried my mane and tail, trimmed and varnished  my hoofs and put my best rug on.

 An hour later, a little horse box arrived to take Mum and I up to London.

Here I am in my posh coat

As soon as we got there, Fred, the owner of the club, and a thousand and one other people were waiting to greet me. Fred took me inside and introduced me to everyone and kindly gave me a drink, while Mum took off my rug and gave me a brush, ready for my film debut.

I had a well deserved rest

 I felt so important and loved every minute of it, although it was a little tiring. They kindly gave me an hours well deserved rest and a lovely feed. I was generally treated like a prince and thoroughly pampered all day. At the end of the filming, John the director came over and said to me:
"Bubbles, you’re a very good little actor."
Mum was so proud of me."

Mum was so proud of me

Maybe next year, I’ll be nominated for an Oscar and Steven Spielberg will call me from Hollywood to ask me to star in his next movie, then I’ll have my name up in lights :-

 

The most famous little pony
in all the world

Now you've seen my graceful side, I’ll show you what a horrible little boy I was when I first arrived at the farm.

"I may be small but I’m very strong"

 I was a real little thug. Then Mum sorted me out and taught me some manners. But before that, I had a fight with a big horse called Freddy who came to stay with us for a little while.

"Don’t think you frighten me, Freddy."

He thought he owned the place, and started making fun of me because I’m so small, so I thought to myself, "I’ll show you big boy, that I’m not frightened of you." So I jumped at him and took a chunk out of his face, which I know wasn’t a very nice thing to do, but I was so angry with him.

”Ouch, that hurt!”
“Good, it was meant to!”

 It did the trick, because he said that he was very sorry, and promised that he wouldn’t be horrid to me again. I said I’d forgive him, and it wasn’t long before we became the best of friends and he started to scratch me which I love.

"Oh! That's Lovely."

You know, I’m a real little tough guy. I’m not really frightened of anything or anyone, except Mum when she’s cross, and then I soon jump to attention!

"Excuse me please little pony. Can I have a ride on your back?"

 One day, a man stayed at our place for the night, with his pet owls that he was showing at The South of England Show the next day.

He left one of them on the fence, while he went inside to get a drink, and it asked me if I’d take him for a ride, so I said, "yes of course I will, Jump on my back" and off we went. I took him round the farm to meet the others, and he really enjoyed it.

"Yes of course. Hop on."

Another daring thing I did, was to meet a python at a show. When the lady asked Mum if it was alright, she said, "no, definitely no." I said, "Oh please let me Mum, I’m not frightened"

Don't think you frighten me,
Sammy snake

"Oh alright ", she said, and I wasn’t at all scared, but Mother was terrified, It was really funny, because she went so white, I thought she was going to pass out!

Billy

 There's a bull at the farm called Billy. He's ten times bigger than me, but I'm not scared of him, in fact we're really good pals.

Billy and Bubbles
having a chat

There’s just one thing that I have to admit that I’m not so brave about, and that is I don’t like the cold, especially when it snows, but I was a very lucky little boy last Christmas. Santa bought me a nice warm rug to keep me warm.


I love playing in the snow when I've got my nice warm rug on.