So on Wednesday’s stream I made a mistake 👀👀 I didn’t read out @AdrianMoore-vj1pb becoming a new member on stream!! I am so sorry for missing that in the chat as I believe welcoming people as members is one of the most important things I do!! I hope you see this and can pop into the stream on Friday so I can say sorry to you there and of course give you a proper shout out!!
The Sky’s the Limit . Have you ever stood outside, craned your head back as far as it would go, staring into the blue abyss above as a plane slips through your field of vision?
The sun delicately glistens on the fuselage as white, puffy contrails cascade behind with the force and constancy of a waterfall.
Ever thought about what airline it is and where it may be going? That there may be hundreds of people on board, reading, eating, chatting, or maybe even glancing down, trying to spot someone just like you, gazing up at them?
There was a time before apps that track every flight and every measurement, as though you too need to know the altitude and ground speed along with the pilots.
A time when you could use your imagination and wonder what exotic and distant land they were flying to. Full of people ready for adventure, new cultures, and the excitement travel brings with it.
Next time you look up, resist the urge and put the tracking app down. Go back to a world of imagination.
In a time when we seem to know almost everything, there’s value in not knowing, in letting your mind wander and embracing the adventure it creates.
The Dark Side of the Plane . This image is not perfect. It’s not sharp due to the distance and heat haze. The lighting isn’t great. The edit is the best I can get with what I have to work with.
What this shows, however, is that it’s real.
AI can produce the perfect image, so it’s time to embrace real, unpolished, and imperfect pictures.
I don’t deny that AI can be useful. It can help brainstorm or organise your day. It can summarise vast amounts of data so you know where to look. What it cannot do is replace a human, and I hope it never will.
When we dreamt about the future, we were promised the robots were doing the housework and boring tasks so we had time to spend doing what we loved. Why is it then that AI is doing all the creative work whilst we still mop the floors?
Too many people chase numbers and validation on social media, so they turn to AI to help them. It’s getting hard to spot. I’m now in a mindset that most pictures and videos are not real, unless proven otherwise.
As for text?
🤔 Who puts bullet points in everything? 👆 Especially with emojis
That’s not over-analysing what you’re reading. That’s spotting a pattern.
If you use ChatGPT a lot, you’ll recognise the above.
Embrace the wonky, weird, and imperfect things we all create. Leave the perfect AI images and posts to those who don’t or don’t care to understand what creativity really is.
Well what a disaster this morning was 🤣. I’m really sorry about not being able to stream but the issue was beyond my means of control. I’ve put a ticket in with my service provider and hopefully that will be sorted for Wednesday. I won’t even start with the pop up stream I did as that was even worse 🤣 But hey I got the Emirates before the signal went. I will say I’m sorry to John Walton for not getting his torch whilst going to Belfast today, Henry I’m also sorry for not catching your grandparents flight and Ian who was off to Paris later. I hope you have a fantastic Monday I’m off to get a shower after coming home caked in mud 🙄 Take Care
A Moment in Time . Whilst the Lauda (Ryanair) aircraft shows how things can change, nothing quite captures it the same way as the cars in this image.
Captured on an autumn day in 2025, it will forever preserve a moment in time. Some things in the world change so slowly that we barely notice - the wild landscapes of the British countryside, or the jagged shores of our coastlines.
Other things, however, change so rapidly that we barely notice them at all. We simply move with time and technological progress, and it feels like we’ve barely blinked and ten years have passed. These changes often only become apparent when we look back at moments like this, frozen in time.
By 2035, these cars will undoubtedly look outdated, just as cars from 2015 do now. Yet we rarely notice this as it happens; we are too wrapped up in the present and the everyday chaos around us. That, ultimately, is not a bad thing. Many people actively strive to live this way, often without realising how naturally it comes to us as humans.
Still, there are moments when it is worth stepping back - to sit, to breathe, and truly take in what surrounds us, appreciating the small details we usually overlook, knowing that one day they too will be gone.
Welcome to Manchester . Ever since I was a little girl and first flew from Manchester Airport, I knew I wanted to move to this city one day.
Coming from Lancaster, the draw of a big, bustling place full of people was magnetic - a far cry from where I’d grown up.
In my late teens and early twenties, I had delusions of moving to London: a bigger city with what I believed were more, and better, opportunities. It was never meant to be. I was rejected over and over again from jobs I so desperately wanted at the time.
I stayed in Manchester.
Yet something never quite made it feel like home. Something was missing. I moved to Germany. I moved back to Lancaster. I moved somewhere in between, with a distant view of the growing Manchester skyline.
Something kept pulling me back, and eventually I followed that calling. Over the last six years, I finally worked out what had always been missing. The puzzle piece that stopped it from ever quite feeling like home before.
The people.
Because it’s the people who make Manchester what it is.
I found my place and I found my people. I’m proud to be part of this city. I’m proud to call Manchester my home.
It’s been a whole year since the last commercial Jet2 757 flight from Manchester Airport. . Just as there is this year, there was snow on the ground in Manchester. Stepping off the bus to board, there hung that distinctive silence in the air that only snow brings, whilst simultaneously the aircraft engines, whirring in anticipation, cut through with their distinctive sounds.
The snow and subsequent airport closure resulted in a delay, but on this flight nobody complained and instead excitedly seized the rare and final opportunity to visit the flight deck and speak to the pilots.
The take-off can only be compared to what you imagine it feels like the first time you get on a plane as a child: forced back into your seat, feeling as though you might actually shoot into space. They do say that nothing quite compares to the power of the 757, but this felt different. This felt like, for one last time, the pilots were going to show us what this plane could really do.
It was a wonderful flight. The sun greeted us in Geneva with open arms, and we said goodbye to a legendary aircraft that has been sadly missed at Manchester ever since.
Think Planes
So on Wednesday’s stream I made a mistake 👀👀
I didn’t read out @AdrianMoore-vj1pb becoming a new member on stream!! I am so sorry for missing that in the chat as I believe welcoming people as members is one of the most important things I do!!
I hope you see this and can pop into the stream on Friday so I can say sorry to you there and of course give you a proper shout out!!
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Check out the final landing of Airbus Beluga ST 5 at it’s final rest place of Chester Hawarden Airport 😢
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The Sky’s the Limit
.
Have you ever stood outside, craned your head back as far as it would go, staring into the blue abyss above as a plane slips through your field of vision?
The sun delicately glistens on the fuselage as white, puffy contrails cascade behind with the force and constancy of a waterfall.
Ever thought about what airline it is and where it may be going? That there may be hundreds of people on board, reading, eating, chatting, or maybe even glancing down, trying to spot someone just like you, gazing up at them?
There was a time before apps that track every flight and every measurement, as though you too need to know the altitude and ground speed along with the pilots.
A time when you could use your imagination and wonder what exotic and distant land they were flying to. Full of people ready for adventure, new cultures, and the excitement travel brings with it.
Next time you look up, resist the urge and put the tracking app down. Go back to a world of imagination.
In a time when we seem to know almost everything, there’s value in not knowing, in letting your mind wander and embracing the adventure it creates.
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The Dark Side of the Plane
.
This image is not perfect. It’s not sharp due to the distance and heat haze. The lighting isn’t great. The edit is the best I can get with what I have to work with.
What this shows, however, is that it’s real.
AI can produce the perfect image, so it’s time to embrace real, unpolished, and imperfect pictures.
I don’t deny that AI can be useful. It can help brainstorm or organise your day. It can summarise vast amounts of data so you know where to look. What it cannot do is replace a human, and I hope it never will.
When we dreamt about the future, we were promised the robots were doing the housework and boring tasks so we had time to spend doing what we loved. Why is it then that AI is doing all the creative work whilst we still mop the floors?
Too many people chase numbers and validation on social media, so they turn to AI to help them. It’s getting hard to spot. I’m now in a mindset that most pictures and videos are not real, unless proven otherwise.
As for text?
🤔 Who puts bullet points in everything?
👆 Especially with emojis
That’s not over-analysing what you’re reading. That’s spotting a pattern.
If you use ChatGPT a lot, you’ll recognise the above.
Embrace the wonky, weird, and imperfect things we all create. Leave the perfect AI images and posts to those who don’t or don’t care to understand what creativity really is.
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If you want to see some of the cool planes that the leaders of World fly check out this epic upload from Zurich as that flew into Davos!!
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Monday Update
Well what a disaster this morning was 🤣. I’m really sorry about not being able to stream but the issue was beyond my means of control. I’ve put a ticket in with my service provider and hopefully that will be sorted for Wednesday.
I won’t even start with the pop up stream I did as that was even worse 🤣 But hey I got the Emirates before the signal went.
I will say I’m sorry to John Walton for not getting his torch whilst going to Belfast today, Henry I’m also sorry for not catching your grandparents flight and Ian who was off to Paris later.
I hope you have a fantastic Monday
I’m off to get a shower after coming home caked in mud 🙄
Take Care
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A Moment in Time
.
Whilst the Lauda (Ryanair) aircraft shows how things can change, nothing quite captures it the same way as the cars in this image.
Captured on an autumn day in 2025, it will forever preserve a moment in time. Some things in the world change so slowly that we barely notice - the wild landscapes of the British countryside, or the jagged shores of our coastlines.
Other things, however, change so rapidly that we barely notice them at all. We simply move with time and technological progress, and it feels like we’ve barely blinked and ten years have passed. These changes often only become apparent when we look back at moments like this, frozen in time.
By 2035, these cars will undoubtedly look outdated, just as cars from 2015 do now. Yet we rarely notice this as it happens; we are too wrapped up in the present and the everyday chaos around us. That, ultimately, is not a bad thing. Many people actively strive to live this way, often without realising how naturally it comes to us as humans.
Still, there are moments when it is worth stepping back - to sit, to breathe, and truly take in what surrounds us, appreciating the small details we usually overlook, knowing that one day they too will be gone.
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Welcome to Manchester
.
Ever since I was a little girl and first flew from Manchester Airport, I knew I wanted to move to this city one day.
Coming from Lancaster, the draw of a big, bustling place full of people was magnetic - a far cry from where I’d grown up.
In my late teens and early twenties, I had delusions of moving to London: a bigger city with what I believed were more, and better, opportunities. It was never meant to be. I was rejected over and over again from jobs I so desperately wanted at the time.
I stayed in Manchester.
Yet something never quite made it feel like home. Something was missing. I moved to Germany. I moved back to Lancaster. I moved somewhere in between, with a distant view of the growing Manchester skyline.
Something kept pulling me back, and eventually I followed that calling. Over the last six years, I finally worked out what had always been missing. The puzzle piece that stopped it from ever quite feeling like home before.
The people.
Because it’s the people who make Manchester what it is.
I found my place and I found my people.
I’m proud to be part of this city.
I’m proud to call Manchester my home.
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It’s been a whole year since the last commercial Jet2 757 flight from Manchester Airport.
.
Just as there is this year, there was snow on the ground in Manchester. Stepping off the bus to board, there hung that distinctive silence in the air that only snow brings, whilst simultaneously the aircraft engines, whirring in anticipation, cut through with their distinctive sounds.
The snow and subsequent airport closure resulted in a delay, but on this flight nobody complained and instead excitedly seized the rare and final opportunity to visit the flight deck and speak to the pilots.
The take-off can only be compared to what you imagine it feels like the first time you get on a plane as a child: forced back into your seat, feeling as though you might actually shoot into space. They do say that nothing quite compares to the power of the 757, but this felt different. This felt like, for one last time, the pilots were going to show us what this plane could really do.
It was a wonderful flight. The sun greeted us in Geneva with open arms, and we said goodbye to a legendary aircraft that has been sadly missed at Manchester ever since.
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