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DO NOT BE ALARMED. Mumsnet is going to be offline for a few hours SATURDAY OCTOBER 11

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RowanMumsnet · 09/10/2014 10:20

Hello everyone,

We're very sorry, but Mumsnet is going to be offline THIS COMING SATURDAY, October 11, from 6am(ish) to 2pm(ish) while Tech undertakes some essential maintenance. We're leaving our creaky old data home for a whizzy new high-tech place, and we need to move the furniture. (MNHQ itself isn't moving - we couldn't cope with that )

But! We've no intention of leaving you high and dry. If it's too early on a Saturday to think about facing real life, fear not. We've plumbed the archive and pulled together a selection of 25 of the finest threads in Mumsnet's history, and we'll be putting those on a holding page while we're offline. The long winter evenings morning will just fly by!

Very sorry for the inconvenience but we're afraid this one's unavoidable.

Strength and honour
MNHQ

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BertieBotts · 10/10/2014 02:29

I think we should just make MN puns and references, not in a horrible way or anything, just sneak it into a thread and then we'll know.

FloatingPorpoise · 10/10/2014 02:17

I'd like to go on the field trip to NM. Has someone ordered a coach or do we just meet there? We need a word we can all use so we can recognise each other.

FiftyShadesOfGreen4205 · 10/10/2014 00:40

Fuck me, guess I'll have to look after the kid.

Tapirbackrider · 10/10/2014 00:39

Saturday is the first day of my holidays - dh is golfing, the dcs are both out, and I had a lush day of mn'ing & Wine planned.

WTAF am I supposed to do now? Sad

LuckyLuckyMe · 10/10/2014 00:13

I was going to say it's my birthday and stamp my feet but I see I'm 14 hours too late and I've been beaten to it.
But it's my birthday.

elQuintoConyo · 09/10/2014 23:56

My mother flies in tomorrow.

All I can say is "thanks MN", high 5s all around.

EBearhug · 09/10/2014 23:44

I'm at a wedding! A WEDDING!!! With a bat shit crazy "mother of the flower girl" and I was going to do a live fred about her mentalness and everyfink!!!

Just save it all up to stress-test the new servers when it's all back up.

Maryz · 09/10/2014 23:43

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QuintessentiallyQS · 09/10/2014 23:40

Rowan I don't suppose you have managed to find my old "oh my god the midgets are coming and they are gonna eat us all up!" -Thread?

Hmm thought not.

VanGogh · 09/10/2014 23:38

But BUT!!!
I'm at a wedding! A WEDDING!!! With a bat shit crazy "mother of the flower girl" and I was going to do a live fred about her mentalness and everyfink!!!

EBearhug · 09/10/2014 23:35

Oh look, I'm not even technically competent enough at the moment to be able to just post once, either.

EBearhug · 09/10/2014 23:35

I'll have to do some housework or something, won't I?

Dear techies, I do hope it all goes better than the server migrations I've been working on lately. OTOH, if you need someone to break a Solaris server, I'm your woman... screwing up clusters is my speciality this week.

(And it all bluddy worked in testing, of course.)

EBearhug · 09/10/2014 23:33

I'll have to do some housework or something, won't I?

Dear techies, I do hope it all goes better than the server migrations I've been working on lately. OTOH, if you need someone to break a Solaris server, I'm your woman... screwing up clusters is my speciality this week.

(And it all bluddy worked in testing, of course.)

EBearhug · 09/10/2014 23:31

I'll have to do some housework or something, won't I?

Dear techies, I do hope it all goes better than the server migrations I've been working on lately. OTOH, if you need someone to break a Solaris server, I'm your woman... screwing up clusters is my speciality this week.

MrsWembley · 09/10/2014 23:02

I'm not on here so often these days, but I'm still Sad

Seth, that's the sort of thing my DP would say.

I don't understand him either...

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 09/10/2014 22:38

But this means I'll have to do dissertation research! Now I might actually pass my degree!!!

I'm all a-quiver.

xalyssx · 09/10/2014 22:31

Please be over by 2.15 so I can MN while having lunch after a hard day at work! I have a lady coming in specifically to ask me to help her!

VSeth · 09/10/2014 22:11

You shouldn't have to accept down time from your Tech people. Build and configure DC in advance and migrate live services. Lots of companies do

Chippednailvarnish · 09/10/2014 21:56

W T A F

DH is away and I will be left on my OWN with the two short lodgers who keep calling me Mum.
It's enough to drive me into the arms of the comments section of the Daily Fail website.

RubyGoat · 09/10/2014 21:49

Bollocks that was not supposed to post! Grin

RubyGoat · 09/10/2014 21:48

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NeedsAsockamnesty · 09/10/2014 21:44

Looks like I shall be having sex on Saturday then.

Now where the hell did I put my address book,I need to pick a victim

MrsGeorgeMichael · 09/10/2014 21:35

i am so excited to see what threads make the top 25 :)
i know, sad!....... but sure ...... lol

MoonlightandRoses · 09/10/2014 21:30

See, I don't usually MN on Saturdays, but now I'm going to have to just for the historic threads.

Any chance you've selected Shiney's penguin ones as part of the list? [Hopeful]

Honeezreturn · 09/10/2014 21:25

YABU! Shock why cant you do it sunday when im working??
That means I shall have to speak to DH!
I could go and annoy netmums Grin