Underground, Overground
Feeling the need to gloss over a few days here because they’ve been fairly rubbish, mainly because I’ve been ill. We’ve managed the usual maths, reading, and music stuff … been to the library, and had a trip to Crealy … all on autopilot really. Today I finally took myself to the doctor so things should improve but it’s taking a while. Thankfully Steve had the day off so he was around to lend a hand today.
We started today with an assembly at the girls’ school, because Abbie was receiving yet another Thank You Certificate. We and she were fairly proud of her for this one because she was apparently the first person in all of Key Stage 2 to achieve a certain level of reward for hard work/good behaviour.
After that we took Josiah and Robyn out to this exhibition, which was lovely. (as an aside, can’t believe it’s been three years since the last time we went there!) We had the gallery to ourselves, which was great. Joe sat for ages doing the children’s activity pages and drawing a picture of Parsley the Lion (from the Herbs) for a competition, while Robyn pottered between the rooms and did some drawing of her own as well.
The Wombles were the highlight for me – not sure that I really used to watch any of the others (Huxley Pig, the Herbs, and something else I can’t even remember now! Oh and Paddington, which I did watch but I preferred the books!) Not really supposed to take photos in the gallery but I don’t think you can see any of the actual exhibits in this one 
Came home and I faded fast, had lunch and got Joe through maths and music in record time so that I could veg out for the rest of the day. Girls have arrived home from school so now it’s officially half term which feels very nice indeed 
February 16th, 2007 at 19:51
Our access was shortlived. I had changed to opendns servers but they can’t resolve your web address or Ros’ today. I can’t help thinking the problem is quite deep.
February 16th, 2007 at 19:52
So tell me what the problem would be? And does that mean you’re still at work? If so, go home!!
February 16th, 2007 at 22:18
Sorry to hear you’re under the weather. Would us taking the girls tomorrow help?
February 16th, 2007 at 22:46
Oh I’m fine really, and we have Steve at home tomorrow in any case so looking forward to lounging around together. Might go to the museum at some point in the afternoon if you fancy meeting up though?
February 16th, 2007 at 23:11
I’m in from home for the first time in WEEKS!
Woo and also Hoo!
February 16th, 2007 at 23:39
Oh, I don’t know. I think we’re in town at some stage. My favouritist ever boots have gone through at the sole and I really hope I can get them resoled. If not, it’s new sassy boots but I like the old ones! What are you doing at the Museum? I think I’m out of touch aren’t I!? C asked today if I was taking time off work next week since it was half term. I think my incredulous look said it all. Half term? I’d forgotten. Poor C.
February 17th, 2007 at 0:39
We have erractic access to TRB. sometimes it’s fine, sometimes not, it might be a minute or two, might be sometime.Seems totally unpredictable, but ha s been doing it for sometime. I’m with Chris, that the problem seems pretty deep – seeing as it seems to affect only some people, and to varying amounts which comes and goes it sounds like some sort of routing problem that only affects some people depending on the route their ISP’s take to connect to the server hosting TRB.
Have you raised it with your hosts?
February 17th, 2007 at 0:48
Just a thought, i wonder if those people having problems would still havethem if they used the IP address for trb.co.uk rather than the domain name
February 17th, 2007 at 1:15
hmm, I’ve just been poking around (with the tools at http://www.network-tools.com). If you do a Whois is query on trb.co.uk it reports the name servers as being at codeplacidly.com. If query the DNS for trb then the DNS servers always report as belonging to solidhost.com (presumably the webhosts), but the other bits on that page, answer Records, Authority records etc. sometimes report normal looking records on solidhost.com, at other times (as in a minute later say) it will return codeplacidly.com instead.
I’ve no idea if this is right or wrong really (though my gut feeling is it isn’t). Maybe Tim or Jax can say.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:38
Hope you feel better soon Sarah.
We had half term this week because we were all ill so next week will be working whilst everyone else is playing. Thank we may have a science week and get some of our boxes of experiments open at last, then it won’t feel so much like work.
February 17th, 2007 at 21:14
Yes, my access here is erratic too. Sometimes will work, sometimes it won’t. Sometimes I get the headers via rss, but then can’t see the actual page. Talk about a tease!
Odd.
Hope you’re feeling better, don’t think I have your email addy Sarah, can you mail me about the ds game please
emma at nattyem dot co dot uk
February 18th, 2007 at 9:16
I think it is a dns problem. The plus net dns servers claim (99%) of the time not have no idea where trb.co.uk is. When I changed the dns servers we used at home it worked but then stopped again (possibly coincidence). It could of course be all the problems are with plus net users (we are, I think Nic is). Ask your host about it.
February 19th, 2007 at 13:41
And i’m plus too and i can hardly ever see you now
February 19th, 2007 at 14:34
But they must be having a good moment, because I can see you atm too
Hope you’re feeling back to normal now xxxx
February 19th, 2007 at 20:00
have mailed you.
February 20th, 2007 at 0:46
OOh – if i view you through http://anonymouse.org/ i can see you!
February 20th, 2007 at 22:05
Yup, I’ve had to resort to using an anonymous proxy, as TRB seems to have become frequently inaccessible from here now. We aren’t with Plus, nor use their system that I know of. Currently running our own Treewalk DNS server.