Les Barker ill

Subject: Les Barker ill
From: Surreysinger
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 05:41 PM

I started a separate thread to notify people of a cancellation of Les's gig in Guildford due to his illness - he had a mild heart attack (whatever "mild" in those circumstances means). For full details, and other people's messages go here Someone suggested that another thread should be started to alert people to his situation - which I've now done. I'm loath to alter the heading of the other thread, though, as it's intended to alert anyone who may have booked for that particular gig to the circumstances for Friday.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Jim Lad
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 05:44 PM

Get well soon, Les.
Cheers!
Jim

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: skipy
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 05:48 PM

Hi Les, we need you! Get Well sooner than soon Please!
Skipy
P.S. Do EVERYTHING that the doctors tell you! We can wait really.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: ClaireBear
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 05:52 PM

Take care, Les. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Claire
(whom you may recall as Jon Berger's friend in northern California)

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 06:02 PM

Get well soon Les, then you can do a Vin and write a little something about it!.

Deirdre

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 06:06 PM

I'm looking forward to Len's account of all this.

And the sooner the better till he's ready to write it!!!

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 06:17 PM

I nearly wished that he would soon be back to normal, but then he wouldn't be Les.... all best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 06:29 PM

Had an odd sense of deja-vu on seeing this thread... seriously that, dunno why.

So take best care Les. And get well really soon, friend.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 06:38 PM

Good wishes from me to an exceptionally fine man.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Betsy
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 06:42 PM

Hi Les, very, very best for a quick and full recovery - they do marvelous things these days in hospital , and so will they, for you.

Cheers Betsy.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 07:40 PM

Take care of your ticker and it will take care of you! Get well, Mr. Barker and remember Laughter Is the Best Medicine! Look how many folks you've helped to stay well.

All the best,

kat in Colorado

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 07:52 PM

Oh dear!

I'm sorry but there's no way that Les can be permitted to leave this earth at this time. He's got responsibilities!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Surreysinger
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 07:58 PM

Just to reiterate what I said on the other thread, I'll arrange to print out any messages to go with the card that we'll be arranging on Friday at the Guildford club night.
Irene

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 07:59 PM

Who said 'Normal' and 'Les' in the same sentence ? The old bugger will be back with a string of hospital poems ! I bet he gets Nurse Ratchet ! LOL - Good thoughts Les !!

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 08:10 PM

Get well soon, Les.
You haven't finished that latest book of poems yet!
Colyn.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GUEST,Bill the sound
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 08:29 PM

Get well soon Les-I've met other people that try do do your poems
BUT I HAVEN'T MET ANYBODY THAT COMES ANY WHERE NEAR YOU!
PS I would have been in tht Forest Folk Club on the 18th.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GerryMc
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 08:33 PM



A get well soon to Les. Do you know how hard it is to go on stage after Les? I sing a line of me song and then I have to stifle chuckle.

Hope to see you out there soon

Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GerryMc
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 08:35 PM


OK, that should be either a 'chuckle' or 'chuckles'.

It's the same already!

Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 08:55 PM

Thinking of you Les - hope you're back to full strength soon!

Love, Bonnie

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GUEST,elfcape
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 10:45 PM

If I could write a limerick for your recovery I'd do it. But I'm a miserable rhymer.

So here are some high hopes for your speedy recovery.

Emily from Cape Cod many years ago.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GUEST,Tanglefoot
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 11:25 PM

Please get well soon Les. You have many admirers who think very highly of you and can't bear the thought of you being ill.
- everybody from Tanglefoot

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Bugsy
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 11:33 PM

All the best for a speedy recovery from one in Australia who's been where you are now.

Get well soon Les mate.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 01:34 AM

We're expecting him at JennyO's club this year. And we'll expect some good hospital poems, too.

And I'll be there to collect the money, see you then, Les.

Get well soon, you'll feel better.

sandra

My experience in Emergency wired to a heart monitor was that the next bed was kept for drunks-who-had-fallen-over-and-might-have-done-themselves-an-injury. There were a lot of them that Saturday night. And they all had the same difficulty in answering the Registrar's questions.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 01:37 AM

The Fooles Troupe have been greatly inspired by Les.

Robin

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Fran
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 01:56 AM

Get well soon Les

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GUEST,The Barden of England at work
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 02:44 AM

Have a good rest and get back to fitness as soon as you can Les as you are irreplaceable.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Raggytash
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 03:33 AM

Best wished Les, take it steady and come back fighting fit

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 04:22 AM

Les get better soon we are thinking of you in Llantrisant.


Scooby.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 04:25 AM

As mentioned in the 'Music In Middlewich' thread, Get Well wishes to Les from we ex-STPs and everyone else in Middlewich.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Folkiedave
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 04:29 AM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Dave

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Schantieman
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 04:33 AM

What's all this then?    Hurry up and get better and start enjoying yourself again!

Steve

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: evansakes
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 05:08 AM

101 Damnations!

Sorry to hear this, Les. Hopefully you'll be up and about soon.

Best wishes from all at Twickenham!

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Mo the caller
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 05:17 AM

Get well Les
Love from earwig Mo

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GUEST,JeremyRS
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 05:34 AM

Get well soon Les, you;re the best

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 05:45 AM

Don't know what to say really ...

Great bloke, the funniest around, brings so much joy, and considerable insight,

We hope for and anticipate another 40 years of great poetry

Les (no relation) in Chorlton

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 06:01 AM

Dear Les,

Best wishes from everyone at the Lewes Arms Folk Club. The patients on either side of you have probably put their hospital beds up for auction on Ebay already.

Get well soon,

Valmai

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 06:12 AM

Tell him to get better soon or I'll come and visit him!

Seriously, someone give him a big kiss from me and a squeak.


Actually... better leave out the big kiss, that might send his ticker into overdrive.

Thinking of you dear....

LTS

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 06:31 AM

Liz, Liz I'm not feeling well ....

Les (no relation) in Chorlton

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 06:44 AM

I'm not feeling either.

LTS

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: mouldy
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 06:57 AM

Oh dear!
Please get well soon, Les!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 07:06 AM

Liz, the last time I spoke to Les, he remembered you well.

I think you SHOULD go and visit him. We want him out of there and over here in Oz for Easter.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Derby Ram
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 07:13 AM

Les

Get well soon, missing you already!!

Keith & Sylvia

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: GUEST,The Black Belt Caterpillar Wrestler
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 07:21 AM

Your public demands your immediate recovery!!

Very Best Wishes,

Robin Madge

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: LesB
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 07:37 AM

Get well soon Les. The world awaits your version of the 'Casualty' theme music.
Cheers
Les (Southport)

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: stallion
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 09:31 AM

I had a "mild" heart attack January 2006, a thoroughly unpleasant experience, however the condition is now under control and I am back! (Heart proc. in August 2006 helped!)Now I have loads of pills and drink less but otherwise ok back working climbing scaffolding, ladders etc. so chin up Les weren't we the lucky ones, at least four of my friends had their one and only cardiac infarction this year which saddens me, but hey, so far so good.

Peter

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: r.padgett
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 12:42 PM

Take yer flippin time!

No sense rushing around, so look after yerself Les!

Funny blokes are in short supply, and we need you to amuse us!!

See you soon

Ray

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: My guru always said
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 01:06 PM

Was so sorry to hear this. Get well soon Les, but do it slowly & take this as a warning - slow down!! Looking forward to hearing new material gleaned for your enfoced stay in the Ward!
Hilary Ward

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Anne Lister
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 01:21 PM

Les - there's a card on its way to you (I hope!) from us both. We both know the Welsh NHS can do very well for its patients (Steve's Dad is currently in the Royal Gwent) so here's hoping that Wrexham is no exception to the rule.
All best wishes and hugs -

Anne (and Steve - who knows you less well than I do, but who is equally concerned for your health, if only to prove that eating green stuff isn't essential for survival!)

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: lady penelope
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 02:24 PM

Ye gods! The poor man's had a heart attack and you wish Liz upon him? Don't you worry Les, I'll make sure she stays put in London till you're well enough to cope... assuming there is a point at which people can cope with Liz... (I get me invisibility cloak....)

All the best Les, Lady P.

Subject: RE: Les Barker ill
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 02:45 PM

It's so lovely to know the impact my presence has on people....

LTS