jimbo jones

Great knock from Crawled, supported well by Buttler.

Great win, really pleased for Buttler, lots of question marks over whether he’s a”test” batsman. Didn’t see it through to the end but did the bulk of it with Woakes.

Even England can’t.....

England been watching Derbyshires run chase from earlier in the week for inspiration ?. This could make Buttler as a test batsman.

1 hour ago, David said:

Awful hat.

I knew you’d comment ?

Mack the border collie

1 hour ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

 

 

Have either of you tried it?

 

I’ve been doing it for my working on blog posts (not necessarily posting something) Was a continuous chain until yesterday. Having been ill all week with a virus....just a normal one, not corona, I’m not that trendy....anyway, I kept it going through the illness, but yesterday I just felt mentally tired, and gave myself the day off.

Straight back on today though. Just doing one for now, might try something else later, but don’t want to over stretch myself right now.

@SaintRam I usually last a bit more than a day, but that is exactly me. Writing is my main thing.  I’ve got piles of stuff. Unfinished work, research that’s not been used. Finished work that’s just been left. I might have to pinch @DarkFruitsRam7/Jerry’s idea to.

its why after several years of talking about it. i went and got myself a web domain and paid for hosting. And started up by blog, with the commitment of at least posting what we’ve been up to everyday. With the idea of doing more when I can. Whilst also getting my writing out into the public domain, even if no sod reads it ?

Think im 13 days in now, without checking. And I’ve got some responsibility with people expecting me to post. So it’s working.

i now need something for the house, which is where I might try the calendar.

1 hour ago, Gap tooth ram said:

I fully understand this post mate.  My lad is autistic as well as having spina bifida.  We've had loads of battles over the years with school and the local authority and I have had those same blank faces looking back at me, so I feel your pain.  I'm lucky in that the wife is phenomenal and deals with pretty much everything, I just get rolled out if she thinks she might lose her poo and needs a calm head ,or needs me to use big words.

Not saying I can offer anything other than the quite brilliant advice @Alpha has already given (think he's missed his vocation in life reading through this thread!), but if there's anything specific I can help with (by I, I actually mean the wife), then drop me a message.

Good luck, stay strong and remember your not alone.

In other news I'm with you, @Alpha and @Mostyn6 on the DIY front, maybe we should set up a group and one weekend a month we can all take turns helping each other further butcher our house's!

Thanks mate. And @Alpha & @Mostyn6 your comments were just what I needed today. Really appreciate it.

@Alpha I decided months ago, one thing I can do is sort my house out. Which currently resembles raynesway tip. I think this has summed up where my head has been. I’ve gone from frantically doing random areas of the house in random rooms. To then giving up for days, leaving the house look no better over 2 months after I started, despite spending a huge amount of time on it. Which has now in my mind turned it into a massive issue that’s stressing me out more than anything else ?‍♂️
 

Thanks @Mostyn6 you are right. I’ve come realise I’ve neglected myself, and in the end in turns out worse for everybody. 

as my daughter gets older, I’m seeing the same problems coming up with schools & services and it didn’t feel like I could do it all again. it’s hard to explain the mental strain of meeting after meeting about your children’s health.
 

Every 3 months we have a multi agency meeting, where we sit around a table with highly paid “experts” who stare at us blankly and hope we’ve got the answers. Then they promise to do things that never happen. Then at the last one after we’d managed to completely turn around how things were going with my sons behaviour. They basically said that they were amazed as they thought we were ducked and my son was going to have to go into care....I didn’t know whether to be happy or punch someone in the face ?

theres going to be plenty more battles ahead, and the only way I’m going to be ready for them, is if I’m in the right place. Im starting to find that but if time, but it’s not easy. I’m slipping at times. But compared to 5/6 months ago it’s better.

I’ve been living with depression for nearly 20 years now. There’s been the good times and the bad times. 2019 was the worst. Both my kids are autistic.

My son got excluded from his special needs school in 2018. We went round every special needs school in Derbyshire, to be told not one of them could meet his needs. In short, the problems we had with my son were huge. We ended up getting a disability social worker and being tagged as a family in crisis.
 

In the end Derbyshire Council are having to pay for him to go to a private school in Nottingham. Which isn’t cheap ?

The difference in him at the new school was huge. So then we had the battle of just getting my daughter a diagnosis. For whatever reasons it’s a lot harder to get girls diagnosed. Her school were dismissive of anything being wrong  and extremely unhelpful. Eventually we got the diagnosis and she went up to junior school, who were much more helpful.

Then my partners sister passed away after a long illness at just 30. Obviously it was difficult for all of us. But my son found it really difficult, and the old problems were back. The last month he got back to where he was.

Me personally. I was on the brink when I went back to see my doctor. Who signed me off work. 4 months later and I’m no closer to being ready to go back and starting to get stressed about what I’m going to do about work.

my depression is just something I have. Ive done the counselling and basically been told I just have to manage. The amount of stress I’ve got going on is making that seem impossible a lot of the time.

ive started writing a blog, basically about me trying to deal with life having 2 kids with autism. Which is helping me get what’s on my mind out into “the universe” (or something like that) and getting into the “autism community” on twitter. Getting to know other parents who know what it’s like, which has been good.
 

Anyway this has been me getting things off my mind again....cheers ?

16 minutes ago, 86 points said:

No it's not 'the same with everything' and I don't wear glasses. The assessment I made was not a blanket 'the past is better than the current' statement, just MY OPINION on a single current division. If you want to blithely dismiss other folks' views then at least try to do so with an valid argument rather than implying they are blinkered or stupid.

Wasn’t talking to you, was making a generalised statement to alpha....which is gernerally accurate. I have little doubt you know a lot more about said subject than me, as it doesn’t interest me greatly

5 hours ago, Alpha said:

Seeing a few haters over social media as usual when Joshua fights. And he still marches on. 

Still some people think you can't support AJ and Fury. You can. 

Took AJ 4 rounds to figure Povetkin out though. Great effort from Povetkin. 

It's odd. Price is far stiffer than AJ but he caught Povetkin a few times as Povetkin went under and over with a hook. He caught the top of his head because Povetkin leaves himself open when he hooks. 

Joshua never really got that success. But it was further proof he's got a good chin and as soon as Povetkin slowed down he took him out perfectly. 

Seen one idiot say that if AJ had been in with a world class fighter tonight he'd have lost. What? Like Povetkin? Wlad? Parker? 

AJ and Wilder have both nearly messed up here. Povetkin nearly spoiled their fight and Tyson still might. Terrible that this fight wasn't made. It'll be Whyte in April.

It’s the same with everything, nothing is as good as yesteryear when your looking back through rose tinted glasses....

2 hours ago, Edtheram said:

Jason Statham supported derby but moved down south and now watches Chelsea. Still a ram at heart.

He’s moved back up Ashbourne way, he might be back down PPS this season ????

Don't think I ever played, without signing ode Tonton, usually Kim Kallstrom as well.