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Road island looking over to piel castle.

Road island looking over to piel castle.

Road island looking over to piel castle.

I'll be in Darkest Dorset in a few weeks time. Christchurch, Weymouth, Bournemouth, anywhere really. Any restaurant recommendations appreciated! 

Glad they've got him. Gotta be not all there to intentionally start something like that.

Winter Hill TV mast fire: Man arrested as blaze continues http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-44654410

Showed you a time lapse video on the bbc news website yesterday. It was shocking. 

Canadian Grand Prix

Brilliant photos @DE6RAM 
Have a great time, plenty of booze, plenty of singing, and bring that big gold thing home!

Hi folks,
Apologies for all the issues people are having with the service.
I'll do my best to pass on the details. 
And sorry if anyone was tweeting me on Saturday - I was in Munich and in no fit state to reply to anything.
Just on the confusion about what games we can and can't stream. If it's a Sky pick or the international pick, we can't show it in any territory with an EFL broadcast deal. While Villa wasn't on Sky, it was the international game, which is why some Rams abroad couldn't watch it with us.
And while I'm here, don't forget the Preview and Review Shows - watch them for free every week ?
Owen
 

I was really lucky to get an invite along today to the yard from John O’Hare to meet up with some of the 70s legends who were meeting up to celebrate Roy Macs 70th birthday and the annual Easter visit of Alan Hinton.
i thought I would take the opportunity to take my son along to meet some of the older players who when he is grown up will hopefully be given the status that that Steve Bloomer gets now, at least he will have a few photos to show that he really did meet the men who made us famous and for a brief moment in time perhaps the greatest football team in the world ?
when I got there I was a little embarrassed to find that I was the only member of the general public in attendance and felt a little bit out of place, the classic gatecrasher at the party, fortunately I know a number of them already and was instantly welcomed, I made sure that we sat just out side of the main group to allow them to chat to each other
Every one of them made time to come over and have a sit with us, I had of course taken some stuff to get signed as it was to good an opportunity to miss, after checking that they were ok with it they signed stuff and sat and talked and had photos with my son, he loved it and entered into some great conversation with them all, he was asking them about the odd haircuts that they had on the photos ( he is only eight) he told John Ohare that he should now be called john nohare which I’m not sure if john picked up on or not, he spoke to Alan about his white boots and got me showing Alan photos of his green boots, to a man they sat and chatted away talking about anything and everything, the numbers continue to dwindle, I felt like the man in the middle sharing stories of my recent meets with Colin Boulton, Colin Todd, Frank Wignall, john McGovern, and Peter Daniel, those in attendance (some with their good ladies) were John Ohare, Alan Hinton, Alan Durban, Roy McFarland, Roger Davies, Rod Thomas, Jim Walker and Henry newton, once again it struck me that the club should make more of a fuss of these guys whilst they are with us, let’s not wait twenty year before we finally get round to making up a song for them that we sing and the younger generation doesn’t have a clue what the names Todd, McFarland, Nish, Hector, Hennessy, Boulton, Newton, Gemmill, Davies, McFarland, O’Hare, McGovern, Hinton etc mean to Derby as a city.

Picked this up from Verdent/Beavertown last night at 8.8%. A double IPA.
Doesnt taste that strong so be careful but it’s very very good

Can’t wear those red hats for some reason. Have a great day folks.
COYR

In Vienna for Christmas 

Enjoy the game today froggg. Hope you have a head for hights. Some of the stands look high and steep.

Up the Rams.

Nice walk around Elvaston castle.

Out walking the hounds.

There you go froggg. Merry Christmas from Manchester.

There you go froggg. Merry Christmas from Manchester.

Sorry for anyone that had issues today.
I'm told there was a problem with Microsoft that was resolved pretty quickly and won't happen again. 
Owen

Been a while since I last posted in here but have kept an eye on posts from others. Anyone who is familiar with my story will be glad to hear I'm back having another crack at my final year at uni and so far, so good (on the whole). Got a really interesting project i'm working on and even managed to make the uni cricket squad for the first time! That said there's still bad days, living by yourself can take it's toll on your mind at times and only yesterday things got on top of me and I just broke down. I'm in a much better place now luckily having had some good fortune this past 10 months as well as amazing support from my family and friends. I even took the plunge on World Mental Health day and spoke out on Facebook about it all and the response was overwhelming and it was something I never expected I would have been able to do since I rarely post much on there. Part of the reason I felt empowered was having been able to open up about it on here, so to anyone who has been a part of this thread, thanks! 

For anyone interested, the post is below:
 
Just under a year ago, I was diagnosed with having depression. It was something that had been going on for a lot longer than I was prepared to admit and it was only when things started to boil over that I decided to do something. At first, I was afraid to confront the issue, scared of what people might think. I kept my issues a secret for a while, suppressing my feelings in the hope that they would simply go away and that everything would blow over. It became increasingly difficult to hide what was going on beneath the surface and, having taking the decision to drop out of university, I slowly started to confront my fears and tell my friends. Even typing it now, it seems ridiculous that something as simple as talking about these things can be so difficult. Despite my initial fears, I can honestly say that speaking about and sharing something as important as suffering from depression has been utterly liberating. The amount of love and support I have received has been overwhelming and has made the struggle that little bit easier knowing there is always someone willing to listen.
It’s incredibly hard to put into words the effects that something like depression can do to you, not only mentally but also physically. I guess my greatest fear when trying to explain my depression, was the perceived lack of understanding that surrounds the issues of mental health, and attitudes towards it. Having taken the plunge and telling people, it has become increasingly obvious how prevalent an issue it really is, and that I was certainly not alone. I guess this is the point that I’m trying to make – depression can literally hit anyone, even the people you’d least expect it to and that there are far more people out there suffering in silence than you may realise. Like me, you may find it hard to convey your feelings to those around you, you feel like whatever you might say is pathetic but I assure you it is not. There is ALWAYS someone who is there to listen to you, and that you mean a whole lot to them.
My mum once told me - “A problem shared, is a problem halved.” I never really believed how true this would prove to be.

Helen and Pippa - really chuffed about this partnership. Helen has a season ticket in East Stand and she was thrilled to bits to meet Gary Rowett and Johnny Russell .