What A Week! Part 2 ❤️

[AliHC]

Thank you to each and every one of you for reading, liking and responding to my last post!❤️

I really am the eternal optimist. My glass is never half full, it is always overflowing, but I am also realistic! 😊 Last week was horrific, so this week in these uncertain times there are a few things I can focus on to help me cope and be certain of...

I will... I will be able to spend quality time at home with my immediate family, I will have time to spend cooking the most inventive meals with whatever ingredients I have in the house for them 😂 I will have time to spend playing my piano and guitar and singing at home 🎹🎸 (I left the trombone in the studio! 💨) I will play a concert in my garden for the neighbours to hear (they don't know this yet! 😆) I will be able to read some of the books I was given for Christmas and my birthday 📚 I will be able to drive out into the middle of nowhere and run 🏃🏼 I will be doing my bit for the Vitality Running World Cup and for Team HU 🇬🇧🏆 (WE ARE IN THE SEMI FINALS!!!) AND running my virtual Sherwood Pines Half Marathon!!!! GET IN!!!!!

Here's sending you all some positive energy to help you though this week and to help make it bearable!

Love & Kindness & Virtual Hugs to you all xxx 🤗

PHOTO ~ Me in the air cadets 1983 😃 I flew in that chinook!

[Hidden]

Keep that glass overflowing Ali, you flew in a Chinook that's some achievement to remember 👍 they fly down the valley by our house you can feel and definitely heat that unmistakable wump wump wump of the blades 👍👍👍

[AliHC Marathon in reply to Hidden]

I sat with my feet dangling out of the back whilst it was on a low level practice reccy! X

[Hidden in reply to AliHC]

That's both exhilarating and dare I say totally bonkers 👀

[AliHC Marathon in reply to Hidden]

I'm sure we wouldn't be allowed to do that now! 🤣

[Big_maz]

Your an inspiration Ali keep on flowing xx

[AliHC Marathon in reply to Big_maz]

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[Stephen_UK Half Marathon]

Love the positivity. And the photo. Stay well.

[AliHC Marathon in reply to Stephen_UK]

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[Decker Ultramarathon]

Its great to hear you are feeling a bit more hopeful today Ali. That Chinook ride sounds amazing. I’ve only been in a helicopter once to fly up the side of a mountain in BC to land on a glacier which was brilliant. Hope your garden concert is a huge success!

[AliHC Marathon in reply to Decker]

Wow! Landing on a glacier sounds awesome! I did so much flying in the air cadets! What great opportunities I had!

There'll be a race retort and a garden gig update on Sunday 🏃🏼‍♀️🎶

Lots of love to you Decker x

[Granspeed]

Well done on getting that glass filled up again. 🎉👍 Wish I could hear the garden concert. Maybe the neighbours will join in as percussionists. 😄 Our niece & her neighbours did a “concert”, each in own garden. They had a banjo, a clarinet and lots of banging, clapping and stomping. 🤣🤣 Your picture reminded me I was once an air cadet - well before 1983! - and got a semi-authorised helicopter ride. But not as impressive as a Chinook <jealous>. 😄 Enjoy those positives. It’s all any of us can do for the moment unless we are in the front line.

[AliHC Marathon in reply to Granspeed]

Can you remember which squadron you were in Granspeed 🤔 I was in 367 😊

I'm really looking forward to the garden concert! Sounds like your niece and her neighbours had a great time! 🎶

[Granspeed in reply to AliHC]

Alas, my squadron was in the US - although clearly it was a parallel thing. I was in Washington DC as a teen, and we were “looked after” by Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. So much fun. I loved flying. It was an old L-16 plane - held together by baling twine and chewing gum, they used to say. 🤣🤣

[Deals1 Metric Marathon]

Pleased the glass is over flowing!!

Garden concert sounds good.

Take care

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

Thank you for that positive energy, it's gone to a good home 😍.

Have a wonderful time working through your 'I will' list 😊

[misswobble Marathon]

My son was in the ATC and learned to fly in bulldogs. He was lucky enough to fly in a fighter jet from RAF Willenhall when they did mid air refuelling. He was only a kid but he was literally on cloud 9

My car is off the road but I’ve not missed it. I walk most places anywhere or just run/walk. Handy skill to have isn’t it 😃

I’m baking a birthday cake this morning. Best get off and do it I got eggs! 😁

[backintime 10 Miles]

well done for getting your optimism back

my opinion on the glass half empty/full , it's just a design fault that the glass was made too big It was always intended to be full