Les Barker - Heart Op

Subject: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Cally
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:25 PM

Les has had his bypass operation today in Liverpool and everything has gone as planned. No problems and he should be able to go to the ward from Intensive Care tomorrow.

It says in the instruction manual he must be strictly supervised when he is discharged.

His strict supervisor

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:29 PM

Fairly straightforward op these days, he should be OK in no time.
All the best Les.

JM

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Little Robyn
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:31 PM

Lots of cheer germs from New Zealand.
Mitch and Robyn at Hawke's Bay.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:31 PM

That is great news Cally.Hope he is back on the folk scene soon.
I send him best wishes from Llantrisant folk club.

Scooby

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:36 PM

Give the aa'd bugger a big hug from me, will ye, Cally?

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:40 PM

Thanks for letting us know. All the best from a Western Colorado fan!

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: SunrayFC
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:43 PM

On behalf of the Sunray Folk Club we wish Les all the very best. Hope to see him soon. He is fabulous!

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Aeola
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:45 PM

Good to hear he is doing well. Must ask him how strict you were!!

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: lady penelope
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:14 PM

"It says in the instruction manual he must be strictly supervised when he is discharged."

Ooer missus...!!!

All the best, Pen.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: ClaireBear
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:21 PM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery under the very strictest of supervision, from Claire in California

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:22 PM

Hurry up and get better, Les. We could all do with a good laugh.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:23 PM

Get better Les!   We miss you in New Jersey!!!

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:25 PM

Get well, and back out there soon, Les.......... under the proper supervision of Ms. Cally, that is.....

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:32 PM

I saw him at Old Songs Festival in Altamont NY a few years, and I hope he'll be back over eventually. Whether that happens or not, here's one fan in New Hampshire wishing him a speedy recovery.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:47 PM

Brysiwch Wella

will meet up again soon

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 05:00 PM

More good wishes from New Hampshire.

Linn

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: skipy
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 05:08 PM

Hope he will out & about soon, please tell him, "I've found his camouflage net" & he can have it back as soon as he is well enough.
Skipy

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: My guru always said
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 05:16 PM

Positive thoughts for recovery!! Taje it easy or someone may arrange a visit from Nurse Ratched....
Hil

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: nutty
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 05:34 PM

Best wishes from me. Get well soon Les.We need people like you to make sense of today's world.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Bernard
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 05:37 PM

Sense? Les? Perish the thought... but not Les, yet!

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 05:59 PM

As I explained to Louis Killen, the "zipper scar" is the body piercing of our generation.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: The Barden of England
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 06:08 PM

Good news Cally. Speedy and full recovery on order Les.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Tangledwood
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 06:13 PM

Great news, best wishes from Oz.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 06:35 PM

Looking forward TO Les touring again ! All the best Les

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,old girl
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 06:55 PM

All the best Les Hope to see you up and around soon,                                                    From Rose Dave & all at Newport folk club S/Wales

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: CupOfTea
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 06:57 PM

Wishes for a speedy recovery of the body & inspiration for the mind, Les!

A friend's recipe for success comes from her gran's platitude "it's dogged as does it" - if anyone can do dogged, it's the dear Mr. Barker.

fondest from Joanne in Cleveland & Runyard Barking Kipling, the world's smallest GOOD looking sheltie

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Folkiedave
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 07:17 PM

Speedy return to the scene Les.....Looking forward to seewhat you can rhyme with Palin............

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 07:45 PM

more good wishes from Australia - Cally, as part of your strict supervision, make sure he brings a (UK) summer weight cardi when he return to sunny (autumn) Sydney, we don't want him collapsing from heat exhaustion after all he's been thru!

sandra

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 07:51 PM

Get well quickly!

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: open mike
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 02:31 AM

GOT GUIDE CATS IN THE HOSPITAL??
best wishes

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 02:32 AM

Glad to hear it went well, tell him to behave or I'll drive up there and squeak at him.

That should put his recovery back a good few weeks!

LTS

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 02:45 AM

Get well soon - all best wishes

Kitty

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 02:50 AM

Speedy recovery from Chris and family in Auckland. He can phone Samaritans if he gets too 'down.'

Cally, for heavens sake get rid of that cardy while he can't get to the bin to recover it.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 03:09 AM

All the best

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Alan
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 04:01 AM

All the Best from Alan & Sandra at SFF

We hope this gives you inspiration for many more poems.

Get well soon

Love from Me & 'er

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Acorn4
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 04:51 AM

Speedy recovery from both of us, Les:-

Has anyone got a postal address we can send cards to?

Dave and Julia Taylor.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Jock O' Dreams
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 04:52 AM

From one "CABbage" to another, all the very best and Lang mae yer Lum Reek!!

               Jim McAdams

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Schantieman
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 05:41 AM

Dunno which hospital he's in but I've just had the misfortune to pop in to the University Hospital, Aintree for something else.    Don't.   

Hope Les (I mistyped 'hopeless' then) is doing really well and is soon out of whichever hosp he's in. Get better soon Les!!!


Steve

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: sian, west wales
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 06:11 AM

I too wish him the best of speedy recoveries and wonder if, as he'll be having time on his hands, he's prepared to give consideration to situations which might be troubling us, and offer advice?

Personally, I am perplexed by something that arose in Stackpole recently. I got into a conversation with women sitting next to me as we awaited Les' appearance on the stage at the Stackpole Centre. It's usually an oudoor pursuit centre which might explain the humungous moth stretching it's wings over the stage. (We're talkin' Japanese B-movie sci-fi here. It was Big.) Anyway, we got to wondering why many moths come out at night, why do they then make immediately for your lightbulbs? We hypothesized that, when God was handing out stuff in the Creation (nod in the direction of Ms Palin), maybe the moths were goofing off so they drew permanent night shift.

Or not.

Les obviously knows a lot about fireflies and such, so maybe he can offer advice on moths?

Perhaps others here have conundrums which are gnawing at the back of their brain boxes which Les might sort out while he's 'at leisure'.

Many thanks,

sian

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Splott Man
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 06:55 AM

One theory is that moths navigate by moonlight, and electric lights confuse them. There's more to it than that (it's to do with phototaxis), but, basically, that's it.

Once he's discharged, Les will be recuperating with friends in south Wales. He'll be well looked after.

All the best, Les.

Splott Man

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 06:58 AM

Get well soon, Les.

From the Salt Town Poets

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: MairSea
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 07:14 AM

Best wishes to you Les for a speedy recovery - looking forward to see the book of poetry that arises from this!

Sincerely though take care

Love and peace

Richard and An XOXOXOXOXOXOXXX

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 07:52 AM

Best wishes Les.

I've noticed that some morris teams are keeping score of how many bypasses they've got. We've got a member who is a four-er in John o' Gaunt.

Robin

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: mouldy
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 08:30 AM

Glad to hear he's all right.
Hope he's out quickly, and behaves under supervision.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Girl Friday
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 08:37 AM

Get well soon Les..... You are the third heart op amongst our folk friends and aquaintences.... would you like a zipperman tee shirt?

Sue Tuckey Orpington Friday Folk

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 08:45 AM

Get out quickly and get back to life. A few weeks and you'll be surprised how good you can feel! I had a quad 11 years ago today!........and by this date the scar is barely noticed.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: r.padgett
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 08:47 AM

All the best Les and Cally

hope to see you somewhere in the summer!

Ray

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Cally
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 08:55 AM

Today's update

Les is fully awake and all is well but he is very tired. He has been moved from intensive care to Ward D Cardiothoracic Unit Bromsgrove Hospital

If you want to send greetings it is more effective to send an e message on this web page
http://www.rlbuht.nhs.uk/for_patients/In_patient_greeting_service.asp

as he will be discharged at the weekend and things go astray when forwarded.

The answer to question 4 is 61

More tomorrow
The Strict Supervisor

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: sian, west wales
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 09:30 AM

"it's to do with phototaxis"

Oh.

Yeh. I guess.

But awful prosaic, ain't it?

I'm sure Les could improve on it.

sian

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Les from Hull
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 09:38 AM

Hope you're better soon, Les. The world needs more and better Leses (is that the plural of Les? It looks funny. Actually the French claim that Les is already a plural.)

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 09:51 AM

Stepping carefully ..................... best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery to one of the funniest, cleverest, most thoughtful, great blokes and best of luck to his Supervisor,

Les in Chorlton

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Mad Spaniel
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 10:08 AM

Me and my spaniel can't wait til you are better and gigging (giggling) again.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Splott Man
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 11:22 AM

Moths are positively phototactic, as opposed to Goths who are negatively phototactic.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: sian, west wales
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 11:54 AM

And myths are prototypic(al)?

What's the use? Les could do so much better ...

sian

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Mick Tems
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 11:59 AM

Olly and I do hope you're on the mend at last, Les. You are one of the greatest stars in the sky!

Mick Tems

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: treewind
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 12:01 PM

Get well soon Les
all the best,
Mary and Anahata

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: CannieShieldsLaddie
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 12:36 PM

Best Wishes Les. Glad to here your on the mend.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 12:54 PM

I am glad Les is out of I.T.U.Cally you look after him for us folkies,he is apart of our folk heritage.


Scooby

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: bavis
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 01:11 PM

Get well soon Les
All the best.
sarer

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Cats
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 01:16 PM

We had a brief conversation about the op at Bideford and we wished him well. Glad all went to plan. Healing thoughts being sent.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Cally
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 04:11 PM

Whoops- I did a brain typo

The address is Ward D
Cardiothoracic Centre
BROADGREEN HOSPITAL (Not Bromsgrove)
Liverpool

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Cally
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 04:16 PM

Desmond Carrington played Sarah Kenedy reciting "Sprouts Are Not Meant to be Eaten" and gave a big plug to Les and Guide Cats for the Blind on his Radio 2 programme this evening.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Noreen
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 06:37 PM

That makes more sense, Cally- I was wondering for what reason he would have been transferred from Liverpool all the way down here to Worcestershire...!!

Positive thoughts for speedy healing winging their way to Broadgreen.
:0)

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Noreen
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 06:41 PM

(My eldest sister was born in Broadgreen Hospital)

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Cally
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 03:59 AM

I have spoken to Les in hospital and everything is going to plan so far although he says he feels ill. (I wonder why?)

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 04:04 AM

Please pass on my love and best wishes -

Bonnie (now in Ireland)

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Cally
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:02 AM

Les has phoned me to say please can I go and get him out tomorrow. They have had enough of him. This is 2 days ahead of schedule and he's doing really well.

Now for some strict supervising !!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: fiddler
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:17 AM

All sounds good now - rootin for a speedy recovery

That is all I can say.

Andy

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:20 AM

Cally.
If you've got any sense, you'd leave him there!!!
What did you do in a previous life to deserve this?
Seriously, I'm so glad that the Op went well.
There aren't many diamond geezers like Les around nowadays.
It's just a shame that you've got to put up with him now!!!
Please send him my best wishes
Ralph Jordan

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Splott Man
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:33 AM

"...he says he feels ill. (I wonder why?)"

It's that comparatively healthy hospital diet.

And 3 cheers to Cally for looking after him.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:37 AM

Best possible wishes for a speedy recovery, Les.

From Clive Lever & Don Thompson, and all at BCAB
together with our undying gratitude to one of the most generous men we have ever met.

Get well soon, but give yourself time to recover before diving in at the deep end again.

We all Luv you
Don T.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Proogle
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:41 AM

Best Wishes Les, from the Prue Family in Lincolnshire!

Will you be at Derby Festival? Oh i do hope so, we can compare Scars!!

See you soon! Pxx

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 09:06 AM

very good news, Cally & Les.

sandra

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 09:12 AM

Great News Cally.Make sure he behave himself and does what you tell him.
Scooby.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: JohnB
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 10:57 PM

Good Luck from Ontario Canada too, from an ex Mancunian.
JohnB

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Cally
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 12:11 PM

Les is home and crying out for discipline I've already had to chase him up the hill with my walking stick.

His strict supervisor

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 12:14 PM

Walking stick? What happened to the cucumber? :)

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: JohnB
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 12:10 AM

Just tell him to start "slowly waving a Shi Tzu through the air" and work his way through a sausage dog up to a St Bernard.
I had a Heart attack in 2002, only ended up with stents, but have run 5Km about three times (on a good week) since about 9 months after it.
Good Luck there Les, JohnB

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: open mike
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 01:05 AM

kendall and jacqui may have some advice..
seems like there was mention of a pillow
to hug when coughing. or laughing..

brings to mind the saying of "keeping
them in stitches" which in this case
should be keeping them stitches in"...

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 03:38 AM

Cally - I can be there within hours if you need worse than the stick to threaten him with....

Give him a big kiss from me.

LTS

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Hollowfox
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 04:23 PM

Thank you, Cally, for all your good work. there's a genuine Midwest Purebred #$@!-reduction candle going for the both of you whenever I'm at home. (Now if we can just get the U.S. Federal government sorted out so he can come over to Old Songs Folk Festival again sometime).

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: GUEST,Cally
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 04:32 PM

Today while he was resting we visited one of the many castles of Wales in Chirk then after lunch went to a Soccer Match. He wasn't supposed to be out till tomorrow. I'm worn out.

The strict supervisor - wilted

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Ref
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 08:15 PM

We want him on this side of the Atlantic again. Perhaps the stupid vendettas will be eased after November 4.

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Anne Lister
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 05:13 AM

Our best to Les too, Cally - up and down a few spiral staircases in a few castles should sort the pair of you out!

Anne (and Steve)

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Schantieman
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 01:41 PM

Glad to hear Les is out and on the mend. :-)



Doctor, doctor, I think I'm a moth

- You want the psychiatrist next door

Yes, but I saw your light was on.......



Steve
(recovered from a VERY muddy Bromyard)

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: C Stuart Cook
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 09:24 AM

So what's the favourite song for a parody?
'Anyone who had a heart', 'Total eclipse of the heart', 'What becomes of the broken hearted'

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 09:29 AM

Les already composed one - in Welsh!

Calon Wan [weak heart]

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 12:11 PM

So I read "...the French claim Les is a plural". Does that prove the French haven't learned to count? I hope the age of this thread means Les(truly singular) has gotten to going great guns & wowed his docs & caregivers with the speed & thoroughness of his recovery. This is selfish. His ability to practice his art is essential to the well-being of MANY of us. Tw

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 02:34 PM

I was very happy to see and hear Les at Dartmoor festival last month!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Mo the caller
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 06:50 AM

And Whitby.
He is very economical with his voice these days, makes the audience do all the work (or is it that we won't let him get a word in!)

Subject: RE: Les Barker - Heart Op
From: Mo the caller
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 06:51 AM

Could some mod perhaps put a date on the title so as not to scare us all. Please.