English playgroup and issues with my blog…

Noah & I went to our first English playgroup today with Tokyo North East team- today`s meeting was at a play area in Nishi-Ojima. The group meets once a week on Thursday`s or Friday`s either in Nishi-Ojima, Ryogoku or Akihabara. The last two places are a lot easier for me to get to with Noah as it is only one train (and there are elevators).

The people I met were lovely (and a couple of them read this blog, strange to have people recognize me and me not know them. Although I guess now I know them!)- Noah was by far the youngest there today (the next youngest was almost 9 months or so) however one of the members is pregnant and will be having her baby in about 2 months. I won`t be able to go again now for a couple of weeks because my dad will be here but I definitely look forward to going back. Plus, Noah slept in his pram the entire way there and on the way back (and had two other short naps today as well)…

I have to upload some new photos of Noah- it has only been a week since I put some up but he is changing so much everyday! He has already outgrown all his 0000 clothes (except the two outfits from Nay, which luckily still fit!).

Also some of you have mentioned having issues accessing my blog and commenting on my blog- were the issues only on the day before yesterday? If so, this is because one of the other sites on the server where my blog is kept (In Australia) had a huge influx of traffic which is why my site was also slow. If you are still having problems (like with commenting) could you please let me know. Also, if you receive an error message could you please let me know what the error message is (either in the comments or email me). My host will try to solve the issue, we just need to figure out exactly what it is. Sorry for the problems you have been having.

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16 comments:

  1. tj-injapan, 5. February 2010, 18:50

    I’ve had trouble commenting sing your post about housing…my comp keeps freezing up and I have to reboot (could be just my comp) . although seems this short comments works (have been trying to make longer comments – mabe cyber space is trying to tell me to keep it short and sweet?!?!)

     
  2. Laura A., 5. February 2010, 19:11

    Yes, I have continued problems posting – that’s why I don’t often comment, even though I’d love to! Hard to explain, but freezes, takes a while to show the words I have typed. Also, you know the tab at the top (XP) that shows a blue circle swirling while it is trying to find the site? Well it continues to swirl, as if it is trying to find the site, and then in between that, there is a little text box, with two vertical red lines crossed through it. This symbol also appears next to the URL at the top throughout. Hope that makes sense to someone who knows better than I!! Hope it gets sorted out :)

     
  3. Lulu, 5. February 2010, 19:17

    Thanks to both of you for adding what is happening- can you tell me what browser you use? Ie, netscape, firefox, etc etc? It could be a browser issue/bug with my site.

    Also anyone else that comments please let me know what browser you are using.

    Hoping I can get it all sorted soon!

     
  4. Nay, 5. February 2010, 19:58

    Laura explained the problem very well! I just use internet explorer…

     
  5. Nikki, 5. February 2010, 20:00

    English playgroup sounds like fun! I would love to get something like that happening down here but we are seriously lacking in foreign families.

    I use Internet explorer too and have had problems with your comments page freezing up. I always just thought it was my computer but if other people are having the same problem? It has probably been happening to me for a couple of months….

     
  6. Laura A., 5. February 2010, 20:08

    Internet Explorer here too.

     
  7. Lulu, 5. February 2010, 20:20

    Oh okay, I use firefox so have not had the same issues (except for 2 days ago when the server was slow)- it might be a bug in internet explorer. I know Shun uses that and my blog doesn`t appear as well in there either…it looks “better” in firefox if that makes sense.

    I have contacted my server host and he will look into it to see if there is anything we can do from our end although I am thinking it might not make much difference…will have to wait and see,

    Thanks for all the replies though- really helpful!

     
  8. Sarah, 5. February 2010, 22:38

    I have the same problem as Laura! Every picture of Noah makes me want to leave comments about his adorableness. You’re doing such a great job!

     
  9. Mande, 5. February 2010, 23:01

    Great that you found a playgroup already. You are always welcome to start attending our BKC meetings which usually take place in Inagekaigan or Makuhari. We meet once a month for sure, but sometimes more often. One of our members just had a baby last month, and another member is pregnant, so we’ll have 3 babies total soon! (7 toddlers plus the 2 babies currently)

     
  10. Sara, 6. February 2010, 9:03

    Yay for English playgroup. Crossing my fingers I will be joining you in a couple months.

    Its crazy how much they grow isn’t it?! Sakura is size 0 now… barely fitting into 00.
    Its such a shame since baby clothes are so cute but you only get to really use them for a few months only.

     
  11. Kel, 6. February 2010, 10:36

    Same thing happening with me too for a long while now.
    And like tj-injapan, the longer the comment the more likely it is to happen.
    I use IE btw. Just while reading your post even the wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php and flickr colour something or other keeps trying to reload . Computer also freezes saying IE has to be closed down and I lose what I write. Sometimes it happens as I press submit and the comment appears even though I lose the connection, if that makes sense. Same goes for your contact me link.

     
  12. Tiffany, 6. February 2010, 11:15

    The playgroup sounds like a lot of fun! I use firefox and I haven’t had any issues at all being able to comment on your blog.

     
  13. Radan, 6. February 2010, 15:51

    Hello’s
    I’ve looked through the coding and made a few updates and modifications.
    Using my internet explorer (and firefox + safari) browsers I can comment and view the pages just fine, although the flickr photo-box on the right sidebar seems odd in IE except when I enable compatibility mode (thats the torn-page like symbol at the end of the address bar next to the reload and stop icons) that seems to fix it.
    I’ll continue looking through the code and monitor the comments here so if readers are still having difficulties please post it and I’ll keep digging.

    Thanks.

     
  14. Lulu, 6. February 2010, 15:58

    Hey everyone, as Radans said above he has looked into the issues and all seems to be solved except for the issue with the flickr badge- if people continue to have issues I could remove it so please let me know how you are finding the site now.

    Thanks to Radans (and Snos, my other host) for looking into the issues so promptly- let me know if there is any other issues with commenting.

    Thanks

     
  15. Kel, 6. February 2010, 16:32

    The constant reloading has stopped and I can also see the flickr icon now after pressing the symbol Radan mentioned, but there is still an error message at the bottom of the screen. There’s a symbol with an exclamation mark on a piece of paper and it says (in Japanese) that the page has been loaded but an error has occurred on the page. It’s a lot easier to type now btw. Thanks.

     
  16. Nay, 6. February 2010, 21:09

    Just wanted to quickly say for me the problem has been fixed as well!! YAY! Now I can go back to writing lot of long comments without the fear of losing them like I have been :)

     

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