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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  [2249] Public Transport from London to Melksham, Wiltshire - (2009-06-19)
  [1996] Advise before my Apache / Tomcat course - (2009-01-16)
  [952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course - (2006-11-28)
  [933] Course Joining package - updated - (2006-11-20)
  [898] Courses at Well House Manor - (2006-10-19)
  [695] In the hospitality business - (2006-04-23)
  [490] A new way to get lost - (2005-11-08)
  [464] Technical Loneliness - (2005-10-14)
  [306] Bristol Airport this morning, The Farm this evening. - (2005-05-09)
  [264] 100% Training - (2005-04-01)
  [2] Diary entry - 5th August 2004 - (2004-08-05)

M400 - Well House Manor - The Hospitality Business
  [2593] Food and drink launch - (2010-01-21)
  [2303] Turning potential customers away - (2009-07-24)
  [2283] Everyone is in the customer relations business - (2009-07-12)
  [2007] Launch of Melksham Food and Drink Festival - (2009-01-24)
  [1877] Guests doing a bunk? - (2008-11-09)
  [1622] An extra step - victory from defeat - (2008-04-25)
  [1548] Hotelympia - show report - the lighter side - (2008-02-21)
  [1445] Looking after you Christmas Customer Crowds - (2007-11-26)
  [1422] Wiltshire - speaker / after dinner talker offer - (2007-11-05)
  [1421] Castle Lodge Hotel, Ely, Cambridgeshire - (2007-11-04)
  [1284] An update on the West Wilts show ... - (2007-07-30)
  [1248] How NOT to oversell a hotel - (2007-06-27)
  [1180] Conjugation - (2007-05-08)
  [1161] A contrast in room rates and facilities - (2007-04-25)
  [1122] Hotel - online feedback forms compared - (2007-03-30)
  [1108] Express service - (2007-03-14)
  [1084] Writing terms and conditions for conferences and other events - (2007-02-17)
  [1048] Getting rid of people - hotel techniques - (2007-01-21)
  [1046] Bounce, bounce, bounce - (2007-01-20)
  [1002] Meet the neighbours - (2006-12-20)
  [988] You should think you're first in a hotel room - (2006-12-15)
  [922] Staying at your own hotel - (2006-11-12)
  [884] Drive time - (2006-10-02)
  [774] Bed and Breakfast, or Hotel? - (2006-06-22)

Z402 - Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  [2594] Melksham Area - your community view is sought - (2010-01-23)
  [2568] Forums for your Melksham and open source discussions - (2010-01-09)
  [2546] How well do you know Melksham - a quiz for Christmas - (2009-12-21)
  [2544] Vision for Wiltshire - (2009-12-20)
  [2531] Melksham - new Tuesday Market - (2009-12-09)
  [2521] Melksham Market - Tuesdays, 09:00 to 14:00 - (2009-12-01)
  [2514] The road show has been - where now? - (2009-11-27)
  [2508] Community Area Partnership - inaugural AGM - (2009-11-20)
  [2495] Planning the future of Wiltshire - (2009-11-07)
  [2487] Melksham Forum - (2009-11-01)
  [2465] Melksham Town - asleep or awake? - (2009-10-21)
  [2459] New Web Site for Melksham Chamber of Commerce - (2009-10-18)
  [2437] Wiltshire Unitary News - Chamber of Commerce Intelligence - (2009-10-04)
  [2328] Melksham - no trains, no southbound buses through the town - (2009-08-08)
  [2289] pre-Inaugural briefing - Melksham Community Area Partnership - (2009-07-15)
  [2288] Wiltshire Community Area Partnerships - (2009-07-15)
  [2260] Important - the future of Melksham / Chamber of Commerce - (2009-06-28)
  [2220] Melksham Traders - where do we go? - (2009-06-05)
  [2194] Melksham Business Map - Chamber of Commerce, Tourist Information and Town Council - (2009-05-21)
  [2181] You cannot please all of the people all of the time - (2009-05-14)
  [2119] Make your business a DESTINATION business - (2009-04-05)
  [2111] Business Networking for Melksham - 23rd April - (2009-04-01)
  [2095] Blue Ridge and Melksham Chambers of Commerce - (2009-03-21)
  [2043] Confidence, Customer Service and Tourism in Melksham - (2009-02-15)
  [1987] One Cheer for Local Democracy - Asda in Melksham - (2009-01-11)
  [1979] Looking forward, in Melksham, in 2009 - (2009-01-05)
  [1934] Lidl opens in Melksham - (2008-12-11)
  [1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes - (2008-11-23)
  [1892] Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry - (2008-11-17)
  [1881] Wiltshire Council says - part 1 - (2008-11-13)
  [1748] Hotel room prices - Melksham, Wiltshire - (2008-08-11)
  [1642] Summer! - (2008-05-15)
  [1633] Changing a screen saver from a web page (PHP, Perl, OSX) - (2008-05-06)
  [1507] Comments on proposed Asda Superstore for Melksham - (2008-01-14)
  [1504] Flooding by Asda-s proposed new supermarket - (2008-01-12)
  [1476] Shopping for Christmas and looking forward - (2007-12-17)
  [1432] Wiltshire County Council - Budget Consultation - (2007-11-15)
  [1429] Remembrance day - inside a church and inside the day - (2007-11-11)
  [1250] Business speed networking - a place tonight! - (2007-06-28)
  [1223] Asda opening large new store in Melksham - (2007-06-08)
  [717] A customer service company - (2006-05-11)

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