It's when the best-laid plans start to come together that you think "Yes - this is working" - and some of these best laid plans have come together for the public Python course just completed.

Quite apart from the courses (where things usually come together very well almost - dare I say it - as a matter of routine) and the hotel rooms which get a universal "wow" ... we have a number of other aspects. It's great to have a week - as we did this week - where most of the delegates arrive the evening before the course, after a pleasant train journey to Melksham. And this particular train - on Sunday from Swindon - is the one the First Great Western have added to their schedule over and above the DfT's specification.


At the hotel, we have provided facilities for course delegates and other guests - and it was great to see the delegates head out for The Three Magpies - all together - on Monday night, walking there and getting a taxi back (and enjoying our "local"), and making use of the games and jigsaws that we provide on Tuesday evening.


Lisa and I were at the hotel until about 9 p.m. - hosting a Melksham Chamber of Commerce Committee meeting - and when we left the jigsaw was at 'early stages'. By the time I got in the next morning, it was completed and I saw it was a picture of Liverpool - and indeed I took some pictures of the same buildings in the jigsaw in February and you can see a selection here and from an earlier visit here.


The delegates were given a lift back to Chippenham at the end of the course - we haven't yet got an appropriate outbound service in the evening restored on a Wednesday - and I hope they had a good journey home. But they did say they would look here in a day or two (hi, there!!) and would like copies of the pictures and jigsaw. Help yourselves - and if you click on the images they should enlarge for you too. And do look us up next time you can find an excuse to come this way. Our delegates enjoyed the course ... and I would also like to say "thank you" to them for making it enjoyable for me too.
(written 2008-09-10 18:20:32)

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