Offline for a few minutes. Please try again soon.

[fruitshootsandheavesupafurball]

At least give us a warning...or better still a small miniclip game of Pombear juggling or FruitShoot skittles so we don't have to go and interact with real life whilst we desperately try to reconnect

I find it happens quite often at peak times. I don't think the site has been deliberately taken off-line.

It's done it to me about 8 times this morning. Always when I click on Preview Message, Post Message or just click on a thread title to open it. Has this happened to anyone else, or is something weirdy going on with my computer?

Happening to me too nearly everytime I click on anything - just refresh the page and it comes back to life - weird

Mine keeps doing this too. Saying it's offline and then I refresh and it's fine.

I've tried clearing my cache but it doesn't seem to have helped (maybe I need to clear it from a longer period?)

Happened to me just now when I went to open this thread!

Hello. And yes, we seem to be flipping offline for a few seconds at random intervals this morning. We're on it. But in the meantime, do keep refreshing - you should get us back pretty quickly.

just sat down for tea and toast with Jeremy Kyle the news on in the background and you were all gone

So glad you're back

Helen, is Tech meddling again? Could he do his meddling in the middle of the night, whilst most of us are offline ourselves? :(

Ok, Tech thinks we should all be back to normal now.

Thanks for your patience

Ironically, that was the message I got when I clicked on this very thread at about 9.30 this morning.

I read the message as "go and do the hoovering, you lazy-arse, and stop titting about on MN, or the day will be gone."