Lost without Skype at this time of year!

[lavenderbongo]

Thought this might be the best place to put this. We are in NZ and every morning I log into Skype so that everyone in the Northern Hemisphere can contact us. But, horror of horrors this morning we can't connect to Skype at all. On any of our laptops or PCs. Is anyone else having this problem or is it just us?

Oooh, I've just tried sending a message via skype to NZ, it's just constantly trying to load. It was working last night I know. Looks like it could be a worldwide skye mess up or it could just be in the UK and NZ

Ha! after 15 mins it's just finished loading. Try again lavender is it working for you now?

Thanks shelscrape. It is still not connecting. It seems to load up but can't connect. Its not going to be a very good christmas if we can't skype all the relies back in the UK.
Is anyone else having any trouble?
I think I will have to get DH on to it when he gets home.

Mine is doing the same! Trying to load all the time but
It never goes online. It was fine until early afternoon today

Hey, just seen the news. Skype have got a general outage and they are trying to fix it, likely to take a number of hours at least.

Aaaaah. I'm in France and it hasn't been connecting most of the day. It was telling me that I lost my internet connection or had an offline status . I was briefly wondering whether I was going crazy as obv neither was the case.

Thanks everyone - if its only temporary thats ok. Would be awful if we couldn't speak to everyone over christmas!

we had problems today in the US trying to call the UK. Am going to attempt to use Google talk tomorrow if Skype is still up the spout.