It's ten years to the day since we bought "404" - our home in Melksham Spa. An eerie takeover, with contracts being exchanged in the morning and we arrived to accept vacant possession just as the sky darked for the eclipse ... the great, tall Spa building in the half light, and the crows from the rookery in the nearby avenue of trees flying around and crowing (as crows do!) at the unexpected darkness. Ah yes - I remember that day.

404 was a wreck when we took it over. No power, no gas, no toilets, no drains. Collapsing ceilings, and water coming in through the wall from the neighbours in a lead pipe. Which is why it took up until December that year to get it habitable, and until September 2000 for us to run the first of our coures there. But really, we haven't looked back; the decision to leave Easterton was correct. The decision to make our new home in Melksham was spot on. We're happy here, we've grown in ourselves, and the town is now so much home that I can't see up making any move away in the next ten years.
(written 2009-08-11, updated 2009-08-12)

 G211 - Well House Consultants - The story of our Georgian HQ and Edwardian Hotel
  [2987] Memorial to a day in 1999 - (2010-10-06)
  [2962] Well House Manor - the history of the hotel - (2010-09-20)
  [2935] 01225 707126 to 01225 344596 to 01225 899360 - Well House Fax - (2010-08-26)
  [2565] Bright day, snowy day - (2010-01-06)
  [2548] Ten years ago, we moved to Melksham Spa - (2009-12-24)
  [2158] On the roof of a Melksham Spa House - (2009-05-05)
  [1443] Christmas is coming very early - (2007-11-24)
  [1126] MacFormat - Me and My Mac - (2007-03-31)
  [830] Butterflies in a Wiltshire garden - (2006-08-12)
  [811] Melksham in Bloom - (2006-07-22)
  [719] Gardens, Well House Consultants HQ - (2006-05-13)
  [174] Contrast - the storm and the calm. - (2005-01-10)
  [118] History around you - (2004-11-15)

G200 - Well House Consultants - Course and Company information
  [3235] How we make our programming courses both time and cost effective - (2011-04-09)
  [3202] Telling you something about us in just one line - (2011-03-15)
  [3115] Perl, Python, PHP, Lua, Linux, and more - and business hotel too. Menu for 2011 - (2010-12-31)
  [3112] Public and private courses - subjects available for 2011 - (2010-12-29)
  [2925] Well House - the pictures - (2010-08-16)
  [2838] Respecting our customers anonimity - (2010-06-29)
  [2777] Blowing our own trumpet - (2010-05-23)
  [2762] Well House - Mission and Policy summaries - (2010-05-13)
  [2661] Current Public Courses - (2010-03-05)
  [2659] New numbers, as 01225 707126 and 01225 709638 are being retired - (2010-03-04)
  [2637] Courses - Melksham and elsewhere - until the end of April - (2010-02-16)
  [2560] Training comparison to QA Training, Learning Tree, GB Direct. - (2010-01-02)
  [2558] Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010 - (2010-01-01)
  [2505] I almost put the bins out this morning - (2009-11-16)
  [2400] Are you wanting to learn PHP? - (2009-09-08)
  [2354] Training, Open Source computer languages - (2009-08-13)
  [2341] Koulutus, Open Source tietokone kielillä - (2009-08-09)
  [2340] ldning, Open Source dator språk - (2009-08-09)
  [2339] Opplæring, Open Source datamaskinen språk - (2009-08-09)
  [2338] Uddannelse, Open Source computer sprog - (2009-08-09)
  [2337] Opleiding, Open Source computertalen - (2009-08-09)
  [2336] Formação, Open Source computador línguas - (2009-08-09)
  [2335] Ausbildung, die Open-Source-Sprachen - (2009-08-09)
  [2334] Formazione, Open Source computer lingue - (2009-08-09)
  [2333] Formación, de los lenguajes de código abierto - (2009-08-09)
  [2332] Formation, des langages Open Source - (2009-08-09)
  [2326] Learn a new programming language this summer. - (2009-08-06)
  [2278] First courses for 2010 - (2009-07-10)
  [2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses - (2009-06-11)
  [2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK - (2009-06-07)
  [2118] Spring Sprung - (2009-04-05)
  [2041] httpd, Tomcat and PHP course enhancements - (2009-02-14)
  [1629] A short introduction to our courses - (2008-05-03)
  [1623] PHP Techniques - a workshop - (2008-04-26)
  [1577] Spring and early summer training courses - (2008-03-15)
  [1565] Languages compared - based on developer community size - (2008-03-05)
  [1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news - (2008-01-01)
  [1453] What makes our courses special? - (2007-12-02)
  [1384] An email update for past guests and delegates - (2007-10-08)
  [1317] 2008 course schedule - Perl, Python, PHP, Linux, Java Deployment, Ruby and more - (2007-08-23)
  [1102] A Reference - (2007-03-08)
  [1087] Telling a story in different ways - (2007-02-20)
  [1018] Open Source Courses and Business Hotel - products and prices for 2007 - (2007-01-01)
  [564] Open Source training from Well House Consultants - (2006-01-14)
  [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
  [549] 2005 - Come as a student, leave as a friend - (2005-12-31)
  [504] We are about Open Source programming courses in the UK - (2005-11-24)
  [419] Most popular courses - (2005-08-19)
  [277] Fire drill - (2005-04-12)
  [234] How to get the best from your supplier - (2005-03-03)
  [181] Maximum number of trainees on a course - (2005-01-18)
  [13] Mobile Office revamp - (2004-08-13)

G100 - Well House Consultants - Introduction to Melksham
  [3344] Repost - some useful pages on our site - (2011-07-04)
  [3232] Around and about Melksham in more pictures - (2011-04-05)
  [2704] A walk within without - Melksham Without - (2010-04-02)
  [2329] Great to be in Melksham - (2009-08-08)
  [1725] A future vision for Melksham - (2008-07-27)
  [1341] Moving to Melksham? Househunting map. - (2007-09-09)
  [866] A lazy programmer is a good programmer - (2006-09-15)
  [847] Image maps for navigation - a straightforward example - (2006-08-28)
  [676] Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-04-08)
  [517] An occasional chance, and reducing data to manageable levels - (2005-12-04)
  [322] More maps - (2005-05-23)
  [291] Why are we no. 404 - (2005-04-25)
  [269] Free parking for short errands in Melksham - (2005-04-05)

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