<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>mmm ... pie :)</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Thanks to everyone who came along to the pie-divin' lunch today, and to Pie Minister and the Garden&nbsp;Gate in sunny hampstead&nbsp;- &pound;92.80 raised, bringing the total to a tidy sum of &pound;1,285.80! holy. cow. Thanks again,&nbsp;and much love xx ali</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>**************************************************************************</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Unbelievably, I've jumped! Thanks so much to everyone who's supported me, it was a truly awesome day, and your donations are going towards some really fantastic work. </strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>On the day of the jump, the front page of a national newspaper (ok, the Daily Mail, but it's still news!) ran with the story that a new drug is being developed which stops the damaging effects of Alzheimer's in its tracks. It could be rolled out in a couple of years. Your donations will go towards reasearch and trials which support breakthroughs like this, as well as supporting those affected by the disease. Which makes you bloody brilliant. </strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Thanks one and all - go to <a href="http://www.ukskydiving.com/myskydive/">www.ukskydiving.com/myskydive/</a> and use the refernce PAGHSMKJN for the unflattering photographic proof that I did indeed plummet from over&nbsp;10,000 ft!!</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>xx</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>*************************************************************************</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>O. M. G. [said in the style of Peaches Geldof, for effect] I have hit my target! Thank you thank you thank you everyone who's supported me so far - the I'M ALIVE celebrations will be on Sun 15 May (details to follow), I hope you can make it! xxxx</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">***********************************************************************</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #00ccff;"><strong>Hurrah for the lovely folks at <a title="ali's favourite PIES!" href="http://www.pieminister.co.uk/#/home" target="_blank">Pie Minister</a> - they are supplying a selection of their delectable pies for my I'M ALIVE&nbsp;celebratory party, following what we are currently calling "ali's big leap of doom"! For a wee donation to the Alzheimer's Society, you can nosh on the finest pies known to humanity. </strong></span><span style="color: #00ccff;"><strong>A massive thanks to&nbsp;all at Pie Minister - I salute you.</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #00ccff;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #00ccff;"><strong>Also, a huge thank you to you lot - I wish I had a jazzy Blue Peter-style totaliser to show you how excited I am every time someone makes a donation! Perhaps that's a project for later ... :)</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #00ccff;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>***********************************************************************</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;">I'm up to my minimum donation required - I'm a-jumpin' people!! Thanks to everyone who's donated so far - love you lots :) xx</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">***********************************************************************</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So ... I&rsquo;m feeling a bit blas&eacute; about life one day, and I decide I&rsquo;m going to jump out of a moving plane. And I decide to do it for charity, so there&rsquo;s no chance of backing out!</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fairly crazy, but it&rsquo;s been a crazy year. Lots of you know that my Dad&rsquo;s got Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease, and in October we reached a point where Mum just couldn&rsquo;t look after him at home any more. He&rsquo;s now in a nursing home, where he can get the specialist care he needs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are so lucky that we had such fantastic friends, family and colleagues who supported us through everything, and now I&rsquo;m being cheeky, and asking for even more! I&rsquo;m doing a tandem skydive on Easter Saturday (23 April) to raise money for the Alzheimer&rsquo;s Society, and would be so honoured if you&rsquo;d consider sponsoring me.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Alzheimer&rsquo;s Society supports thousands of families across the UK who are struggling to cope with the demands of looking after a loved one - a wife, husband or parent - who can no longer look after themselves. They fund research into the cause, care, cure and prevention of dementia, which affects over 700,000 people in the UK alone. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any donation will get me closer to my target, and if I make it to &pound;1000, I promise to get the whole jump filmed so you can all have a laugh at my Bridget Jones-style landing/imaginative use of swearing as I plummet to the ground! </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thanks guys, much love, </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ali</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">xx</span></span></p>