I'm having a great week running a public PHP course - a near-perfect (from a teaching viewpoint) group of 4 trainees - enough for there to be plenty of interaction, and few enough for everyone to be getting the very best of attention and tailoring of the course. This week, everyone's fit and is a keen walker, and is staying in a local B&B or hotel ... so we took the local OS map and walked out to Seend, on the Kennet and Avon Canal and ate at "The Barge" - one of the lovely country pubs near Melksham.

There are many public footpaths in the area (map) and we saw a good selection - from urban through Bowerhill and well-defined across the field, to the cycleway beside the canal and some more adventurous paths on our return - along the railbed of the old Iron Plateway (Seend was quite an industrial spot) to the site of Seend Station - through a field of cows, then over a field of wheat back to the main road. Now who was it who commented "I didn't know I was coming on a teambuilding exercise ;-) "
(written 2005-06-09 07:30:04)

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  [2141] Town Crier competiton - (2009-04-25)
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  [1894] Shopping in Melksham - (2008-11-19)
  [1452] Santa on the train to Melksham - (2007-12-01)
  [1330] While waiting for Melksham Post Office - (2007-09-02)
  [989] Melksham Quiz - (2006-12-15)
  [977] Melksham and Norwich - (2006-12-10)
  [957] Improving the historic town of Melksham - (2006-11-30)
  [951] What happened at Geekmas - (2006-11-28)
  [929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire - (2006-11-17)
  [829] Where to go within 30 minutes of Melksham - (2006-08-11)
  [670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes - (2006-04-04)
  [524] Santa comes to Melksham - (2005-12-11)
  [500] Bowerhill, Melksham, 2006 Calendar - (2005-11-19)
  [488] Looking for railway groups and users - Swindon, Salisbury, Southampton - (2005-11-06)
  [354] Ballooning from Bath - (2005-06-21)
  [344] Walk in Bath - (2005-06-11)
  [329] the Stately Homes of England - (2005-05-29)
  [325] Gone Racing - Larkhill, Wiltshire - (2005-05-26)
  [312] Maud Heath - (2005-05-15)
  [305] Within about an hour - (2005-05-08)
  [298] Sharing pictures of Wiltshire - (2005-05-02)
  [266] A beautiful place to live and learn - (2005-04-04)
  [51] Gym and swimming - Melksham Blue Pool - (2004-09-16)
  [5] Driving in the UK for new arrivals from the USA - (2004-08-07)

G303 - Well House Consultants - During the course
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  [1459] Interactive training, and advancing techniques further - (2007-12-05)
  [1420] The Learning Perl crew, October 2007 - (2007-11-03)
  [1363] One computer per delegate, or pair programming? - (2007-09-23)
  [1245] Ensuring that our tutor answers YOUR questions - (2007-06-25)
  [1035] Longer hours and better value courses - (2007-01-15)
  [640] Training Centre Pictures - (2006-03-09)
  [570] Features and Benefits - (2006-01-20)
  [455] A Stengthening day - (2005-10-04)
  [273] Course Picture - (2005-04-09)
  [56] Dress Code - (2004-09-20)

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