Ok, who has broken Mumsnet, AGAIN?

[MaryChristmaZEverybody]

Because it's so slow I'm managing to slurp a lot of while pages are loading, which might be a worry later on tonight.

Its very annoying

It is slow tonight.

Right, I give up.

I'll be back in a couple of hours to see if they've fixed it.

Let me know if all the trolls reappear will you? Ta ever so.

It's getting very annoying.

I thought it was my punishment for being deleted yesterday maryZ

Like molasses tonight.

I think the servers must be overloaded because the telly is so rubbish.

So we should blame the BBC, BOF?

Should be working ok now - and lol to BOF

dh is watching rugby - in Irish .

So yy to shite tv.

Thanks, Catherine

I'm watching Lord of The Rings.
Do you speak Irish Maryz?

Not if I can possibly avoid it LBE.

And even then, very little.

Nor can the vast majority of the population, but unfortunately TG4 (the Irish station) has acquired the rights to the rugby, so I have to listen to it most Friday nights .

And I wouldn't mind if the kids learned anything from it (Irish is compulsory at school so being able to understand a rugby match would be theoretically useful) but ds2 insists on listening to the English radio commentary on his ipod at the same time [mutter].

Yes, I knew it was compulsory in schools.
My Irish friends could never speak it either.

It's one of those ridiculous things education boards do. Make it compulsory, so everyone hates it, so no-one learns it .

A bit of a bone of contention in this house.

Twas rugby ( x 2 ) in our house too! DH delighted with the Munster win, not so much the Leinster score so turned over half way through... To something about the Von Trapps! Saturday night tv has def gone on holiday for Christmas.

Came to bed in the end to surf MN... Still seems a bit slow tho

Can we just say HA and BRAVO to ItLooksLikeRainDear

We've alerted tech

Why thank you Catherine!

ds2 was at the Leinster match, so was delighted with the win obviously.

Catherine, is Tech still recovering from Christmas day? We wouldn't want to upset him.

Learning Irish sounds just like the time, effort and money that is wasted ramming Welsh down the throats of a totally apathetic majority.

I confess I LOL when I read that the censes (sp) results recorded less people considering themselves Welsh speakers now than before the Welsh assembly blackmailed 100% English speaking parents to send their DCs to Welsh medium schools.