Preparedness for when

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Has anyone else been having problems with being timed out of the MSE site this weekend? It's been happening since yesterday morning here and will drop out and show the page cannot be displayed, timed out message, then it takes 5 to 10 minutes before it will reconnect me to the MSE forums. Very difficult as there's not much time to post or read.

I've found the forum to be more down than up this weekend. If a page loads then the next one may not load for several minutes (by which time I've finished my tea break and am heading back to whatever I've been doing (yesterday writing up recipes, today gardening).

I'm currently regretting having the foresight to wear walking boots for the gardening, I managed to find a plank of wood with a nail through it, the hole in my foot will heal (tetanus up to date, wound disinfected) but the boots won't be waterproof with a hole in the sole - still if I'd worn my usual canvas things there might have been a far deeper hole in me.
Suspect I've found enough snails to feed a housing estate - the problems of neglecting a garden at the start of the growing season.

[Deleted User]

Ouch!!!!poor you, poor boots!!!

[Deleted User]

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Has anyone else been having problems with being timed out of the MSE site this weekend?

Yes. I started a thread about it, yesterday evening, in Site Feedback.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5298155

moneyistooshorttomention

That makes 3 of us on that thread then!

I tend to come on here for "breaks" in between tasks and its really annoying to find a quick 10 minute looksee during a "break" can go on for rather longer than that - as I tend to get the bit between my teeth and stick at having a look at whatever I've decided on.

I don't need all this - on top of the fact that its a battle anyway to have normal Internet reception in this area. I'm only thankful that I remember what "normal" broadband is like from my previous area - so I'm quite sure I am right when putting in complaint no. 101 (or whatever its got to by now....:() and telling them "So I DO know what normal is like....".

ivyleaf

Problems with the forum here too.

mardatha

I haven't had any problems. Yet.

Karmacat

mardatha wrote: »

I haven't had any problems. Yet.

Nor me, this time around at any rate - I have done in the past.

GreyQueen

I've been playing in the dirt, so haven't been around to notice any problems. For all those with the bad weather, I'd just like to point out that I've been enjoying a gloriously sunny day with temps in the low twenties. Very nice indeedy. :cool:

jk0, I never iron my jammies. I reckon if a person's jammies are either entirely a private matter, or shared with very close family/friends/partners who are far too close to care what you look like. Either way, no ironing is ever needed.

MTSTM, I prolly get followed around W&rose by their store detectives as definately don't look the target demographic. Ours is frequented by two Types and one outlier:

Type 1: Stressed-out yummy mummies in from the County with five fractious under-tens in tow. One of the children will be called something fey which will get them mercilessly teased by the common people, if they ever get to meet common people, that is. My spies and informants overheard one enfant being addressed as Marigold.* Some parents, hey? Although I do think Vileda has a certain ring as a girl's name.....

Type 2. Orfly Nice Married Pensioners, who can't see to drive prop'ly and tend to prang other people's cars in the W&rose car park.

The Outlier; My friend (the posh thirty-something professional lady) who gets her car dinged by the Orfly Nice Man who is terribly terribly apologetic.

I have told posh friend to shop at HASDA for the joy of seeing her shudder. She went there once looking for a grocery item more appropriately found in W&rose, and has never lived down the teasing from the rest of the gang when we found out about it.

Mind you, I'm un-posh and I seldom darken HASDA's doors, on account of it being about the size of an aircraft hanger and full of nuclear families about to achieve fissile status and go ka-blooey.

:eek: Once went there on a Saturday afternoon. Oh. My. Gawd. Never again. Beats me why Relate and divorce solicitors don't set up shop in the HASDA foyer, there's plenty of scope for them.

*If, in a completely bizarre co-incidence, Marigold's maman or papa are reading this, you've got a wicked sense of humour, dudes. She'll get you back for it, one day. She'll prolly hook up with an oik just to annoy you.

Nargleblast

Site playing silly boogers here too, like wading through treacle.

GreyQueen

:eek: Check this out : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-02/surveillance-state-goes-mainstream-windows-10-watching-logging-everything?page=2

Makes me glad I am using a 13 y.o. PC with a very obsolete operating system. My Computer Wizard detests Windoze. He has one PC running it because he occasionally codes for customers using it, but otherwise loathes it. When this great putty-coloured behemoth finally goes the way of all tech, I think I might be looking at Linux. Would have to have a play-around with it first, to make sure I could cope with the change.

Wonder if the site is misbehaving on some OS and not others or it's something to do with what servers you're on? Where is nuatha when we need him?!

Actually, am feeling peckish, so will be going after some cookies - the techy kind.