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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Light and shadows at Beach

Yesterday was a glorious, sharp but sunny day and one of those rare opportunities we get these days to relax a little and take a day off - or at least part of a day.

We all went over to see Chris (my son) and his wife Delene and their cat Snowball at the incongrously named "Beach" which is a small village set in a remote valley between Bath and Bristol. Well - it's remote, yet very close indeed to both cities. Regular readers and friends will know that Chris had an accident on his motorbike less than a fortnight ago and was hospitalised. After the initial panic when I was pulled out of a meeting with the breaking news, followed by the drive to Beach to pick up Delene and on to the hospital ("was he taken to the RUH or Frenchay?") where they had lost him off the system ... after the inial panic, damage turned out to be limited to a mashed knee and breaks in that area. A week in hospital, an operation to put metal pins in to hold everything together ("now, you'll always set off the airport metal detectors' Chris") and Chris is now back home in a full leg length plaster cast for a number of weeks, then a hinged one for a while longer ....


The light was shining in through the windows at the front of Fifteen Acre Cottage, and I couldn't resist taking a few snaps of Snowball - one of those cases where a colour picture that's very close to being monochrome is really effective!



(written 2007-02-04)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
Z700 - People
  [207] Canteen Dragon - (2005-02-09)
  [388] BBQ Season - (2005-07-24)
  [392] No Smoking - (2005-07-27)
  [423] A Victorian Lady - (2005-08-23)
  [530] Perl course during the week, getting married at the weekend - (2005-12-16)
  [543] The world didn't stop for Christmas - (2005-12-26)
  [584] Loosing breath with Gerald - (2006-01-31)
  [601] A fond memory of Sir Freddie - (2006-02-11)
  [611] Look out for the motor cyclist - (2006-02-17)
  [650] A person of few words - (2006-03-18)
  [704] Erin Brent - rest in peace - (2006-04-29)
  [763] Much more that the world cup - (2006-06-15)
  [771] From cat breeder to Cobol to Perl - (2006-06-21)
  [794] Perl delegate - much more than just a delegate - (2006-07-06)
  [820] Robert and William Whitworth - (2006-08-01)
  [1065] Graham Ellis - an Introduction - (2007-02-05)
  [1107] Weekend Visitors - (2007-03-13)
  [1119] The Last Word on the road - (2007-03-26)
  [1151] Gordon Dodge, R.I.P. - (2007-04-16)
  [1197] Back off home with our best wishes - (2007-05-21)
  [1238] The kind spirit of Melksham - (2007-06-21)
  [1279] The Gdansk fireball - (2007-07-27)
  [1303] Heading Upstate New York - (2007-08-14)
  [1385] Delegates of all shapes and sizes - (2007-10-09)
  [1522] Paging Martin Noke, who petitions for more trains from Trowbridge to Swindon - (2008-01-28)
  [1570] London Midland ... Merrymaker ... Percy Danks - (2008-03-10)
  [1627] Amazing family members - (2008-05-02)
  [1916] Why I remember East Grafton - (2008-12-02)
  [1980] Michelle - (2009-01-06)
  [1988] Melksham, Wiltshire. Town Crier Competition, 2009 - (2009-01-11)
  [2078] A lot has changed - but the memory lingers on - (2009-03-12)
  [2100] Visiting Family - (2009-03-23)
  [2132] Learning about Lurchers - (2009-04-18)
  [2503] Melksham manslaughter case concludes - sort of - (2009-11-14)
  [2795] Simon says - (2010-06-05)
  [2846] Catching up with an old friend - (2010-07-01)
  [2886] Congratulations, Kimberly - (2010-07-25)
  [3008] Dulwich College Preparatory, and Sevenoaks, Schools - (2010-10-21)
  [3034] Birth Notice - Aeryn Cassandra Ellis - (2010-11-07)
  [3055] Zyliana Kyrei Cox - (2010-11-16)
  [3125] The family is defunct. Long live the family. - (2011-01-09)
  [3184] Visiting relatives - (2011-02-26)
  [3268] Baby Pictures - (2011-04-27)
  [3297] A long day, a long journey, and families and similarities the world over - (2011-05-22)
  [3298] Quiet Monday in - (2011-05-23)
  [3355] Family Pictures - (2011-07-12)
  [3466] Passing of Steve Jobs - R.I.P. - (2011-10-06)
  [3512] A colleague and friend who changed my life - (2011-11-07)
  [3775] Alan Turing - 1912 to 1954 - (2012-06-23)
  [3905] How should we choose our Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner? - (2012-10-27)
  [3981] Melksham - a town of some remarkable people - (2013-01-19)
  [4193] Using our non-found page to help look for missing persons - (2013-10-18)
  [4349] When I am old, what will worry me? - (2014-12-11)
  [4482] People in New York - (2015-05-02)
  [4646] Sometimes you wonder about people. And perhaps you should not. - (2016-02-13)
  [4728] Visiting Los Alamitos Bay Yacht Club - (2016-11-23)
  [4736] Our changing world - (2017-04-17)

Z202 - Just Pictures
  [298] Sharing pictures of Wiltshire - (2005-05-02)
  [360] Spring turns to Summer - (2005-06-26)
  [365] Letterbox Pictures - (2005-07-01)
  [412] Bristol Balloon Festival - (2005-08-13)
  [416] Mixing up swallows and martins - (2005-08-16)
  [548] San Francisco - (2005-12-30)
  [557] A new sign - (2006-01-07)
  [625] February pictures - (2006-02-26)
  [708] Linescapes of Mull - (2006-05-03)
  [713] Pictures from my travels - (2006-05-07)
  [772] Training in Liverpool - (2006-06-21)
  [786] First Light, Bootle Docks, Liverpool - (2006-06-29)
  [870] Autumn comes to Wiltshire. - (2006-09-17)
  [958] Plain Ole nice pictures - (2006-11-30)
  [1005] Stirling at night - (2006-12-23)
  [1099] Passenger flows - (2007-03-04)
  [1152] Course, right place, right time - (2007-04-17)
  [1162] Cheddleton, Staffordshire - (2007-04-26)
  [1172] May day 2007 in pictures - (2007-05-02)
  [1216] Five of the best - pictures from London - (2007-06-03)
  [1233] Horses of Brugge - (2007-06-15)
  [1234] A review of a week and a trip to Brugge - (2007-06-16)
  [1392] Autumnal lighting on a London trip - (2007-10-15)
  [1398] Someone else's wedding - (2007-10-21)
  [1400] Dark Dawn - (2007-10-22)
  [1489] Pictures of December - (2007-12-30)
  [1546] The geometry of East London - (2008-02-19)
  [1620] Norwich and London - (2008-04-23)
  [1740] Vertical London - (2008-08-06)
  [1770] 3 hours from Milton Keynes - (2008-08-24)
  [1818] Icelandic Badge - (2008-10-01)
  [1838] Oxford in Pictures - (2008-10-13)
  [1854] Three Seasonal Pictures - (2008-10-25)
  [1919] Transition - (2008-12-03)
  [1931] Frosty Morning, foggy evening - (2008-12-08)
  [1981] Bitter cold - (2009-01-07)
  [1986] Walk to Bowerhill - (2009-01-10)
  [2006] Contrast - (2009-01-23)
  [2034] Through Snow and Flood to Linux and Tomcat - (2009-02-10)
  [2093] Leading Lines - (2009-03-20)
  [2098] A room without a view - (2009-03-22)
  [2101] A B C D of GA and TN - (2009-03-23)
  [2121] Out in the Vale of Pewsey - (2009-04-07)
  [2140] Beware - giving copyright away when you upload a picture - Dogs Trust - (2009-04-25)
  [2146] An evening excursion to Devizes and Avebury - (2009-04-30)
  [2168] In honour of the photograph, I present ... a walk from Reybridge to Lacock - (2009-05-10)
  [2202] Bright Colours - (2009-05-26)
  [2266] Travelling - (2009-07-02)
  [2298] Melksham Carnival Parade - the people - (2009-07-19)
  [2404] Low Sun - Autumn is here - (2009-09-13)
  [2412] Autumn Fruits and Bristol Old Station - (2009-09-20)
  [2464] Beauty in pictures - (2009-10-20)
  [2518] Through the arches - (2009-11-29)
  [2549] Christmas Day ... - (2009-12-25)
  [2553] On a short walk from home - (2009-12-27)
  [2582] Starting to arrange the picture library - (2010-01-16)
  [2611] Sunday Evening, City of London - (2010-01-31)
  [2677] Blowing out the winter cobwebs - (2010-03-14)
  [2756] Same subject - different pictures - (2010-05-09)
  [2760] Views of Scotland - (2010-05-11)
  [2767] Back from a Python course in Glasgow - (2010-05-16)
  [2819] Some more pictures ... - (2010-06-19)
  [2888] Recent Pictures - (2010-07-27)
  [2914] Older picture. - (2010-08-10)
  [2989] Oddballs in Plymouth - (2010-10-08)
  [3096] Contrast in pictures - (2010-12-20)
  [3101] The week before Christmas - (2010-12-23)
  [3195] Sunny day - Clanger and Picket Woods, Shearwater, and Westbury - (2011-03-06)
  [3220] Panasonic Lumix TZ20 - (2011-03-28)
  [3241] Spring in the countryside near Melksham - (2011-04-10)
  [3289] New Camera - very first picture, and next from first films - (2011-05-14)
  [3350] A set of pictures without point - (2011-07-08)
  [3356] Holiday patterns - just the art, not the content - (2011-07-13)
  [3473] Picture - Havant Station at Dusk - (2011-10-11)
  [3562] Christmas Day - for unique pictures - (2011-12-26)
  [3616] Bus top - colours of London - (2012-02-17)
  [3655] Sights and scenes - more London trip pictures - (2012-03-16)
  [3678] Potteries and Staffordshire in the Sunshine - (2012-04-01)
  [3713] Verticals ... last month - (2012-04-29)
  [3837] Evening behind Melksham Spa - (2012-08-12)
  [3846] Signs of Autumn - (2012-08-22)
  [3894] A wet Saturday - (2012-10-13)
  [3907] Weather pictures - (2012-10-29)
  [3925] Red sky at night - (2012-11-17)
  [3990] Stripes of Snow - (2013-01-25)
  [4133] In the hills above Harlech, and on the coast too - (2013-07-06)
  [4740] Labelling images - (2017-06-24)
  [4741] Catching up on labelling more images - (2017-06-24)
  [4742] Third and final set of older picture for today - (2017-06-24)
  [4743] Further picture labelling! - (2017-06-25)
  [4744] Updating image labels - (2017-06-25)
  [4745] More pictures - final labelling set for today - (2017-06-25)
  [4746] Image library - labelling continues! - (2017-06-26)
  [4747] Image feed for Tuesday ... - (2017-06-27)
  [4748] A second batch of images for today - (2017-06-27)
  [4749] Pictures for Wednesday - (2017-06-28)
  [4750] Thurday images - (2017-06-29)
  [4752] Welcome to July. Picture labelling continues! - (2017-07-01)
  [4754] A quiet Sunday afternoon - (2017-07-02)
  [4755] Back and continuing to feed pictures! - (2017-07-08)
  [4768] 2017 - the final six months - (2017-12-31)


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