The evening after the course

For 2023 - 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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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))

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, updated 2006-06-05)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

G303 - Well House Consultants - During the course
  [56] Dress Code - (2004-09-20)
  [273] Course Picture - (2005-04-09)
  [455] A Stengthening day - (2005-10-04)
  [570] Features and Benefits - (2006-01-20)
  [640] Training Centre Pictures - (2006-03-09)
  [670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes - (2006-04-04)
  [1035] Longer hours and better value courses - (2007-01-15)
  [1245] Ensuring that our tutor answers YOUR questions - (2007-06-25)
  [1363] One computer per delegate, or pair programming? - (2007-09-23)
  [1420] The Learning Perl crew, October 2007 - (2007-11-03)
  [1459] Interactive training, and advancing techniques further - (2007-12-05)
  [1466] Effective Java training - the bootcamp approach - (2007-12-09)
  [1816] Holt on holt - (2008-09-29)
  [2342] Training Classes in other tongues - (2009-08-10)
  [2560] Training comparison to QA Training, Learning Tree, GB Direct. - (2010-01-02)
  [3233] C / C++ Course Lunch - sitting out at the West End - (2011-04-07)
  [3588] Learning about how to help people learning - and retaining - (2012-01-21)
  [3771] Fine evening, country walk from Melksham - pictures - (2012-06-21)
  [4132] Using your own laptop on our courses - now even easier! - (2013-07-05)
  [4558] Well House Consultants - Python courses / what's special. - (2015-10-28)

G102 - Well House Consultants - Things to do in Melksham
  [5] Driving in the UK for new arrivals from the USA - (2004-08-07)
  [51] Gym and swimming - Melksham Blue Pool - (2004-09-16)
  [266] A beautiful place to live and learn - (2005-04-04)
  [298] Sharing pictures of Wiltshire - (2005-05-02)
  [305] Within about an hour - (2005-05-08)
  [312] Maud Heath - (2005-05-15)
  [325] Gone Racing - Larkhill, Wiltshire - (2005-05-26)
  [329] the Stately Homes of England - (2005-05-29)
  [344] Walk in Bath - (2005-06-11)
  [354] Ballooning from Bath - (2005-06-21)
  [488] Looking for railway groups and users - Swindon, Salisbury, Southampton - (2005-11-06)
  [500] Bowerhill, Melksham, 2006 Calendar - (2005-11-19)
  [524] Santa comes to Melksham - (2005-12-11)
  [829] Where to go within 30 minutes of Melksham - (2006-08-11)
  [929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire - (2006-11-17)
  [951] What happened at Geekmas - (2006-11-28)
  [957] Improving the historic town of Melksham - (2006-11-30)
  [977] Melksham and Norwich - (2006-12-10)
  [989] Melksham Quiz - (2006-12-15)
  [1330] While waiting for Melksham Post Office - (2007-09-02)
  [1452] Santa on the train to Melksham - (2007-12-01)
  [1894] Shopping in Melksham - (2008-11-19)
  [1928] Melksham Oak Community School, Melksham, Wiltshire - (2008-12-07)
  [2141] Town Crier competiton - (2009-04-25)
  [2175] Melksham in pictures - (2009-05-11)
  [2656] Melksham Carnival - (2010-02-28)
  [2716] Melksham in Pictures - (2010-04-10)
  [3062] Melksham Carnival - getting ready for 2011 - (2010-11-20)
  [3229] Coincidence, or naturally repeating event? - (2011-04-03)
  [3230] Whaddon - near us and yet so remote from us - (2011-04-03)
  [3239] TrainWest, 2011 in pictures - Christie Miller, Bowerhill, Melksham - (2011-04-09)
  [3284] What to do in the evening during a Tcl course - (2011-05-10)
  [3531] Blowing our trumpet about Melksham - (2011-11-28)

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