Carlene / Horseshoe Bend 2

Carlene has had a bad fall in the home, breaking a few bones and sustaining other injuries. She is due to undergo surgery on Wednesday, and has financial worries as a result.

Cathy / Life and Lessons

Cathy will be deleting her journal on Monday (27 October). She cannot cope with the transition to another platform, and is now reduced to writing by pen and paper. Please call round to her blog while it's still in existence (http://journals.aol.com/chatzeekay/LifeandLessons/).

Cathy is one of the true victims of AOL's callous decision to axe journals. We may have gotten new blogs here on Blogger, but she cannot follow.

Sheria / The Examined Life

Sheria has informed us that her mother passed away on September 15th. She is still coming to terms with her loss. Please call round.

Lori / Dusty Pages

Lori has had a tough weekend with two deaths in her immediate circle - please call round.

Coco / Some Random Thoughtz

Coco seems to be in a very low mood, so please call round and give her a big J-land hug.

Dana's father has passed away

Dana's father, who had been in ICU since last Saturday, sadly passed away in the early hours of today, Saturday 18 October.

Dana's main journal is private but her photo journal is public.

http://myphotolounge-heavenlybama.blogspot.com/

Dana's email (please replace [at] with @ and [dot] with a .) is heavenlybama [at] aol [dot] com.

Thanks to Franny for flagging this up.

Please Welcome This Blogger

Antonella, who has been following blogs for a very long time has taken the plunge herself and opened her own.

Just as in J-Land please call over and give her a great welcome. Here is her link

http://lunarossa-livingabroad.blogspot.com/

Dana's father

Our blogger Dana's father has been in ICU since Saturday. Her main journal is private but her photo journal is public.

http://myphotolounge-heavenlybama.blogspot.com/

Thanks to Franny for flagging this up.

J-Lander Loses Her Dad

Zoe has just lost her beloved Dad. Please visit and give her some support .

http://journals.aol.co.uk/zoepaul6968/domestic-chaos/

Dormant blogs

I repeat an earlier appeal for links to dormant blogs that people want preserved.
I also need to know whether it is OK to download blogs by deceased writers. So far, I have the following names:

Lahoma - mzgoochi
Kim - demandnlilchit
Jim - halliday0957
Barbara - babeboo73
Pennie - penniepooh
Pam - his1desire

Decisions may already have been posted elsewhere, but I need a central point to post this, so here goes.

I have a piece of software that allows me to download a journal. We can take a decision on the downloaded journals later.

Cathy / Life & Lessons

The majority of formerly J-land has now migrated to Blogger, and judging by the 800+ entries on Google Reader, is busy clattering away at their keyboards. Please spare a thought for the unhappy few who are unable to go through this humungous change.

Cathy, chatzeekay, left an entry on October 6th on her AOL journal Life and Lessons, saying she would not be able to make a new journal at Blogger, or wherever. She has suffered two severe brain traumas, the results of which have left her quite incapacitated. The entries, not spell-checked, speak for themselves.

Please call round, and ask if you can be put on an emailing list for her to continue beyond November 1st. Let it not be said that J-land (on Blogger or AOL) does not care for its less fortunate members.

Robin

Robin is recovering from gall bladder surgery. Please stop by and wish her well.

http://yellowbrickroadtwo.blogspot.com/

Posting

I'm afraid I am unable to open this blog to all comers. I need a list of names of people who I can put up as authors. Anyone else who wishes to make a Call for Support should then contact these authors.

Sorry about this: a minus-point for Blogger.

Call for Support - continued

Call for Support will continue on Blogger. If anyone wants to keep the old journal, drop me a line. Please bookmark this blog; I'll dress it up later.

Edit (1.15pm): Will transfer old journal.