Malcolm Douglas ill

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: treewind
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 07:34 AM

Wishing you all the best, Malcolm - one of the best things about Mudcat is the contributions from people like you!

Anahata

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: rich-joy
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 07:44 AM

Here's hoping you're back on form ASAP, Malcolm!

All the Best,

Rich-Joy (in Down Under land).

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: GUEST,baz parkes
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 07:56 AM

Echoing all of the above, of course

Good luck

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 09:03 AM

Add my well-wishes to the rest- to one of the finest!

Allison

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 09:22 AM

Thoughts, prayers and blessings to Malcolm. Please get well soon.

Thanks, Steve, for the info. - please keep us all informed.

Erica and Bryn

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 09:25 AM

get well, soon.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: alanabit
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 09:43 AM

Undoubtedly one of the sharpest and most knowledgeable minds here. I will be wishing him a speedy recovery too.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Greenacres
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 10:04 AM

Best wishes and healing vibes to Malcolm from all here. Felicity

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 11:27 AM

Hi Malcolm, Here's hoping that whatever is wrong with you can be put right as quickly as possible. Thoughts and prayers from the Harris family. Burl

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Compton
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:53 PM

....and a Big Get Well Soon from me as well...he has always sorted out out any queries I've raised and apart from a bit of a do we had about the EFDSS, I think the world of him!!

Compton

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Folkiedave
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:58 PM

I told Steve about this yesterday evening at around 5.00 pm UK time.

To get to over 100 messages in 24 hours is a great achievement and I am sure Malcolm will be delighted. Well done to all of you. If anything could revive anyone you can. Thanks you for all your prayers and messages of good will. And I have printed the thread (just the names I hasten to add).

I will see him this evening and will report on progress around 8.00 pm UK time.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 01:02 PM

Just seen this. Every good wish to one of the key people in this community. Great to see how appreciated he is.

Regards

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 01:38 PM

Just found this thread.
Wishing Malc a speedy recovery.
Sending you best wishes and prayers from Leeds, Malcolm
Get well - Duncan McFarlane

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: r.padgett
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:01 PM

I thought I posted here already but best of health to Malcolm ~ last seen at the TSF Meeting at Sheffield University just a few weeks ago with Steve Gardham and others

Hope the weather gets a bit warmer too, might help

Ray

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:04 PM

I've only just noticed this thread but I'd like to add my get well wishes to everyone else's. I'm sure I'm not the only Mudcat member to appreciate Malcolm's enormous knowledge and scholarship.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Brian Peters
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:09 PM

"Major truths, like benevolent madonnas, are sustained aloft by dozens of busy, cheerful angels of detail."
Nicholson Baker

When I scan through the names at the top of a thread I usually go straight to Malcolm's.
Best wishes.
Brian

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:13 PM

Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.
Mary

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: GUEST,post elf
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:17 PM

Ward K1, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield S10 2JF

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:25 PM

Many, many thanks, for all your good wishes. I'm not in the slightest bit religious and to the best of my knowledge I don't think Malcolm is, but if wishful thinking counts for anything Malcolm should make a very speedy recovery. A few of us this side of the pond have extensive indexes and access to enormous libraries, but Malcolm is very special, he holds much of this knowledge in his head!

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: IvanB
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:58 PM

Ever since I joined Mudcat and Malcolm was the first to respond to my query, I've regarded him in awe for both his innate good sense as well as his encyclopedic knowledge (or that to know where to look if he doesn't have the answer immediately at hand). For him to show human frailties such as illness is almost beyond my ken.

But, life is life and, Malcolm, you have all my best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery. Along with Steve I can only offer my wishful thinking, but be assured I'm wishfully thinking as hard as I can for you.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Folkiedave
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 03:44 PM

I have just returned from visiting Malcolm this evening with Ron and Jenny Day. He sends his regards to all those who have wished him well. Please feel free to send messages and cards if you knew him or have ever contacted him personally.

Ward K1, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield S10 2JF will get him.

We have permission to take his laptop in - that will make him happier than anything, especially if he can get an internet connection (!!)

I asked him for a quote to his many friends on here. "I liked the morphine but I don't intend to make a habit of it" was what he offered.

He looked a lot, lot better than when I saw him two days ago - a lot better. He is likely to be in for a few days at the least.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 03:59 PM

> He looked a lot, lot better than when I saw him two days ago - a lot better.

YESSSSS - that's what I was waiting to hear. It's great that he's up to even thinking about driving a computer, and I loved the quip. Here's looking forward to good news from Sheffield S10 2JF.

B xxx

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 04:00 PM

Dave,
Please warn him, as a national monument, he must not scare us like this!

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Rowan
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 05:17 PM

Truly he's a gentleman and a scholar!

All the best, cobber.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 05:19 PM

Be well, Malcolm.

~S~

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Gervase
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 05:34 PM

I don't usually post to threads like this but - well Malcolm is one of those people who consistently restore my faith in this place with his freely-given and hard-won erudition. In a fairer world his work would already have been recognised with honorary degrees and doctorates. Let's hope the medics looking after him are as careful and well-versed in their field as he is in his.
Get well soon.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 05:50 PM

Well put, Gervase.

Sounds like the Mudthinking is starting to work, folks! Keep it coming!

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Partridge
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 01:28 AM

be better soon

love

pat xx

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 01:59 AM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 03:08 AM

I am quite new to Mudcat so don't know of you yet. Please return that I may learn.

Good thoughts and wishes coming at you from Essex and to those providing your care.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: GUEST,jim mac farland
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 05:25 AM

get well soon malcolm

jim mac farland

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 05:03 PM

That Gervase...he's some writer, isn't he?!**bg**

Well put, Gervase and exactly what we all wish for you, Malcolm. You are one of the Shining Examples of the Best of Mudcat. Thanks, and please come back when you feel up to it.

kat

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 05:52 PM

I hope that you get well soon Malcolm.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Folkiedave
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 02:52 PM

I have been to see Malcolm tonight and he seemed a lot better.

He is expecting to be allowed to eat tomorrow (Saturday) which will improve him even more I would suspect.

Thanks for all the good wishes - they are appreciated.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: PoppaGator
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 03:07 PM

Glad to hear that Malcolm is doing well. I'm quite late putting my two-cents'-worth into this thread, but better late than never.

For VirginiaTam and anyone else who hasn't yet encountered Malcolm, I wanted to post a link to his list of postings, but I don't know how to locate it without first finding a thread to which he has contributed.

Every message in every thread begins with the writer's name in blue ~ as a "clickie." If you click on the name, you get to a list of all of that person's contributions, in reverse chorological order. Access to Malcolm's list would be helpful to anyone who doesn't know him yet; just about ANY randomly-selected message will be an example of some really erudite folk scholarship.

Joe, elf, clone, whoever: can you link us to Malcolm's message-list?

---

Done. -Joe-

Posts from Malcolm Douglas

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 03:16 PM

Malcolm's Postings

Good idea Poppa...


Spaw

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: PoppaGator
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 04:11 PM

Thanks, to both Joe and 'spaw.

I'd still like to know how I could have done that myself ~ probably to do whatever 'spaw did. (Joe could well be using some kind of insider's trick not availabel to us peons.)

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: JohnB
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 04:25 PM

Give him all the best from Canada too Dave.
JohnB

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 04:35 PM

Please add my encouragement for a speedy but complete recovery. Malcolm has been an incredible resource here at the Mudcat Forum.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Little Robyn
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 05:37 PM

Wow! 8779 posts since July 1999.
That's brilliant Malcolm.
Hurry and get better - we miss you here.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Folkiedave
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 06:09 PM

I tooka a moment or two to look at some of the posts. I recommend anyone to do the same.

Here's my favourite from the first page!! The problem isn't important - but look at that answer.

For what it's worth (if there is any connection, it's pretty tenuous), the Montreal Family Herald and Weekly Star ran a regular feature, 'Old Favourites', from 1895 to 1968, and apparently published two folio anthologies (1898 and 1900), though under what titles I don't know. For more on the column and the songs it included, see Edith Fowke, "Old Favourites": A Selective Index in Canadian Journal for Traditional Music, 7, 1979.

Now who dare contradict that!!!

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 06:56 PM

Poppa..it's pretty easy, actually. Just go to the Quick Links up top, click to get the Drop Down Menu, then scroll down to Old Adv. Forum Search, follow that, put the user name in the appropriate box and voila!

FolkieDave, that sounds good! Still sending good wishes from Colorado!

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 06:17 AM

Or How about this one?

"In fact they have 79 variants of Den vonde stjukmori, but only two refer to Moderen under Mulde in their notes. I wish, sometimes, that I understood Norwegian; I am assuming for the moment that this is The Wicked Stepmother, but I can't find a definition of stjukmori anywhere..."

From 2001

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: GUEST,andymac
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 07:11 AM

Like many others here, I've never met Malcolm but stand in awed admiration at his knowledge and recall.
Whenever I am looking for some background on a song variant, I have one or two people I ask in person but towering about even them is Malcolm.

Glad to hear you're improving, just keep improving and get well soon.

Andymac (Scotland and Norway)

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 07:40 AM

It's getting pretty obvious that Malcolms illness is reaching out across the globe.
How wonderful is that?
Would that any of the rest of us could have the same response.
Come on Malc. Get better soon.
It's not just your knowledge, It's your all encompassing friendship the is so important.
I just hope that Christmas treats you well.
Ralphie.
(Don't bother about the Card and the Present this year....It's fine!!!)

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 08:09 AM

Actually Ralphie, the 'Cat has a long history of this kind of thing dating back to even before Malcolm arrived here. Here was the first almost ten years ago and perhaps a less deserving 'Catter....

Malcolm is the latest and I am so glad to hear he's getting better! Maybe it is all just smoke and mirrors but the good thoughts and prayers of so many humane and wonderful people sure as hell can't hurt and I tell ya' what.......it may just be that little extra that gets us over the hump. Works for me (on numerous occasions!).................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: DMcG
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 05:39 PM

I've just logged into Mudcat for the first time in a few days, so have only just learned about this. I can only echo what everyone else has said. Malcolm has been a great help to me on this site and others and it is excellent news to hear he seems to be responding to treatment. Malcolm, just take things easy for a while. We will muddle through somehow and then you can have the pleasure of sorting all our mistakes out when you get back!

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 05:50 PM

Ditto to all Dave McG said above.

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 02:32 AM

Get well soon.


jOhn

Subject: RE: Malcolm Douglas ill
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 07:49 AM

Just found this. Best wishes Malcolm and hope you are better soon.