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Post by abbaman48 on Sept 4, 2015 10:45:45 GMT
did you know frida likes to race pidgeons? quote Lyngstad remains involved in charity work, and stated in a 2005 interview that she had no interest in ever returning to a music career.[citation needed]
She currently lives in Zermatt, Switzerland, sharing a home with her British boyfriend, Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden, since 2008.[12] Frida also has an interest in racing pigeons and is actively involved in the UK. She is the Honorary President of a Homing Society in Stockton On Tees. She also competes as a partner in a team in the same club "Cunningham, Nixon, Lyngstad". Lyngtad also owns several homes in the UK; one in Newcastle Upon Tyne, another in London and another, shared home in the Yorkshire Dales.
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Post by shoshin on Sept 4, 2015 15:36:47 GMT
Not sure if Roxanne might want to move this to get it more views; there's a thread called 'Did you know this about ABBA?'. Otherwise these one-off threads tend to quickly sink without trace as they drop down the pecking order (pigeons, geddit?). I wouldn't want that to happen because it's my chance to say that I have always wondered where the supporting evidence is for this story. Wikipedia doesn't give a source and most of the other internet citations seem themselves to be taken from the uncorroborated Wikipedia article. I've found a story similar to the Wikipedia entry, but which contains the additional info that in June 2013 Frida's team scored one point. Again there's no source for this, but at least it's another morsel to research. Also, I've found that, in 2011 at least, there was indeed a senior member of the society named Nixon, which sort of fits Frida's team name. But I would have thought that it would be pretty easy to find pigeon fanciers' forums on the internet in which someone writes 'you'll never guess who I competed against last week'. Haven't turned anything up yet, although one of the main forums requires registration to view and I would have almost as much trouble explaining that membership to my wife as I do the ABBA ones Anyone else got thoughts about this?
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Post by chelseacharger on Sept 4, 2015 15:51:15 GMT
I think the Wiki page also claims she has several houses in the UK. Hmmmm. I did, when I had rather to much time on my hands, check on the racing pigeon angle. And yes, there is a club up there with snazzy photo's of tattooed, moustached, beer bellied folk lovingly caressing their winged speedsters on their site. No sign of a 'Lyngstad' unfortunately.
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Post by Zeebee on Sept 5, 2015 20:41:17 GMT
Not sure if Roxanne might want to move this to get it more views; there's a thread called 'Did you know this about ABBA?'. Otherwise these one-off threads tend to quickly sink without trace as they drop down the pecking order (pigeons, geddit?). If there were no other posts after abbaman48's post, I would move it into the Did you know this about ABBA? thread. but since there are a couple of other posts, I'll leave it here. Roxy still could move it if she chooses to.
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Post by abbaman48 on Sept 9, 2015 16:45:14 GMT
yes shoshin,,the source only seems to be from wilkipaedia,which i suppose does seem odd,however your nixon point seems to give some credence to it,,i too have spent hours trying to find added input without success
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