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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

OP posts:
JammyDodger1 · 09/10/2014 20:25

MrsV I suppose if it goes wrong they could turn it all off and back on again like our I.T dept say

MrsVamos · 09/10/2014 20:29

Oooh, you mean start from the beginning again, Jammy ?

That's promising...Wink

TinyPawz · 09/10/2014 20:33

Not impressed AT ALL!

Might finally get to try the recipe for cinnamon buns in 1 hour and then see how many of the 24 batch I can eat while reading available threads. I reckon I'll be overstuffed by about 10.30.

JammyDodger1 · 09/10/2014 20:43

Ha yes MrsV back to the day where I could watch more than one thread and remember stuff Grin

ChippingInLatteLover · 09/10/2014 20:46

Thanks for letting us know Rowan :)

MrsVamos · 09/10/2014 20:50

Quite, Jammy.

I get so confuddled these says. Sad Blush

MrsVamos · 09/10/2014 20:51

days.

Pffffttt.

FrancesNiadova · 09/10/2014 21:09

I've got DH in work & youngest DC' s friends round on Saturday. How am I going to keep sane without gin or mumsnet? Hoooooowwwwwllll!

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

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]

MrsGeorgeMichael · 09/10/2014 21:35

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

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

RubyGoat · 09/10/2014 21:48

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RubyGoat · 09/10/2014 21:49

Bollocks that was not supposed to post! Grin

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.

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

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!

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.

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...

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.

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 23:35

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 23:35

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

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!!!

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.