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

[RowanMumsnet]

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

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.

My mother flies in tomorrow.

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

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.

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 & planned.

WTAF am I supposed to do now?

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

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.

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.

Somebody needs to sign up as Paul. Then we can say "Paul? Is that you?"

So I actually will get some cleaning and clothes sorting done this weekend .

Oh joy.

This is unacceptable!

I GAVE the tv remote to dh and asked if he would start watching all his recorded crap tv shows instead on saturday so at least i can watch something good on saturday normaly let him watch his stuff on sat while i mn he looked at me me with must distrust

I have registered on Gransnet with the same NN. I plan to hang out there learning at the feet of wise women.
Who's coming with me?

I might have to pop over there with you Norks, will put my best behaviour cap on.

I've just had my first look at gransnet. It's lovely. I might register there and stay there. Ha that'll show mnhq not to mess I'm only 32 and not a gran but I'm sure that's ok

But...but...I'm a regular and I can prove it...naice ham, cutted up pears..
Sorry, just wanted to use that line somewhere, sometime

D.d.does this mean I have to to do some housework on Saturday morning! Darn it!

Everyone I know is away this weekend.

I'll have to go shopping with my dad. I'll do an experiment. I dunno what yet. Something to do with shoes, no doubt.

Oh crap. I now have no reason not to do the bloody hoovering.

OK mumsnet where is the notice period?

Couldn't you have given us enough time to organise a meet up or three?

I am so distressed. I'm not alarm, just very, very, very sad.

Thank feck. My shoulder may actually start to feel better after a rest. Am I the only poster out there that has developed a sore shoulder from constant mumsnetting?

This is going to be like the New York blackouts of 1977. A wave of crime as frustrated MNers kill their MILs denied the safety valve of coming here to rant, triggering an economic crisis. Society falling into chaos and dystopia as countless domestic and personal situations are tackled without wise advice to LTB or to consider "no" as a complete sentence. In decades to come, young MNers who are currently at school will be wide-eyed at our tales of how we survived, and what we did that day.

Terrifying

Ooh I wonder will I be on any of the 'finest threads'.

@ Fish