In England, newspapers are published every day of the year, except Christmas Day ... and that's been the case since 1912, as you can see from this old post from the New York Times.
Train services in England run every day of the year except Christmas Day and Boxing Day (26th December).
And shops in ....
Whar are our plans for 2011? "Steady as she goes", I think - a gentle year of building on all we've achieved in the past year, and all that has developed in the last six months. Our hotel at Well House Manor in Melksham provides high quality accommodation for delegates on our public Open Source co ....
Here's a personal list. Places I've traveled to this year - and they're all places that have not been purely for pleasure. Acton. Antrim. Avebury. Bank (London). Bath. Belfast. Birkenhead. Bradford-on-Avon. Bristol. Bristol Airport. Cambridge. Chippenham. Devizes. Dublin. Glasgow. He ....
I understand that Wessex Water are going to be replacing a water main in Beanacre from mid January until mid March, and that will disrupt traffic on the A350 - the major road which links Trowbridge and Melksham to Chippenham and the rest of the country via the M4. I didn't have to look back very fa ....
Sorting through old manuals, it struck me just how many tailored courses we've given over the years. Tailoring a course to suit customer needs is really very easy for us - all of our courses are modular, and when we're running a single customer / private course, we prefer to top and tail the cours ....
Fancy a day trip to Weymouth? Over the past few days, I've been looking at possible timetables for an improved "TransWilts" service - with a particular view to connections beyond the area. Call it "TransWilts Link" if you like. There was a very great deal going on in the five weeks before Chris ....
The period between Christmas and the New Year is a quiet one for business - and it gives us a chance to catch up on a few lot of things, and to recharge our batteries too. Picture, earlier today, Lisa and Graham getting mixed up between work and play, and Gypsy asking which of us is going ....
We like to keep the computers that we use for training - both the machines that we use for presenting courses, and the machines that our delegates use during courses - up to date. And that means that every couple of years we renew our fleet - pensioning off machines which in truth probably still ha ....
Proud Grandfather is allowed to publish pictures of Granddaughter occasionally, even though this blog is really about hotels, open source, Melksham, trains, and other similar topics.
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Delene, Chris and Aeryn came around yesterday afternoon; Ae ....
Our training course rates for 2011 will remain (net) unaltered from 2010 - although the VAT increase from 17.5% to 20% means that invoice totals will rise slightly. Most of our customers can reclaim VAT. Hotel rates - quoted inclusive of VAT - rise slightly to reflect the extra tax - £85.00 ....