Have been struggling to work out how to let someone know about this... so let's try it here (if I've gone for the wrong place in the Community, apologies for newbie error)
Me and some fellow followers of Atlassian blogs have noticed that for a day or two now we can't view https://www.atlassian.com/blog
A quick trawl with https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime to check https://www.atlassian.com/blog reveals a regional problem
and switching to a VPN that routes traffic through US allows access to blog content again.
https://status.atlassian.com/ doesn't really cover this... but hopefully someone in Atlassian HQ can push some buttons to reconnect their audience.
Yay. It's working again.
Thank you blog team elves...