Hi everyone,

First of all, huge apologies for the fact that the site was down almost all of yesterday.

Secondly, you’ll probably notice that now that it’s back, it’s displaying posts from September. This is because at about 2pm today our web hosts, Heart Internet, contacted us to say that while they were working on our server they had managed to irretrievably lose the entire site  – and all the rest of our websites – and that there was absolutely nothing they could do to recover it. Essentially, they told us Shoeoerwoman (and, indeed, all of our other sites) was gone for good.

Yes.

As you can see, that turned out not to be true and they have managed to restore most of the site. We have, however, lost just over a month’s worth of posts, and the posts we do have don’t currently have images. We have our own backup of those posts, but it will take us several days to get them back online, and unfortunately there won’t be any posts here for a few days because it’s going to take us at least until then to deal with the considerable fallout from this fiasco.

We’re currently working on rebuilding the sites, but as the posts are restored you’ll notice they won’t have images or comments to start with – there’s no need to contact us about this, we know about it and are working on it!

We’re really sorry for the interruption in transmission, and hope you’ll bear with us for a couple of days until we can get back on our feet.

Amber