Geographically challenged
I had a look at other LJ support requests and it seems that the problem is only happening in this country, as I have now told them. As if it wasn't already annoying enough to live at the arsehole edge of the world. It must be LJ's end because other sites are loading fine.
So it looks as if I won't be around much till whatever it is is fixed. It's just too bloody annoying to deal with raw data.
Stuff you, LJ.