Hotel and training centre, Melksham, Wiltshire
High quality accommodation for course delegates, business travellers and the leisure visitor too.

Home Accessibility Bedrooms Book Here The Mouth Facebook Resources Find Us About Us Contact
 
For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - 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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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))
Good, stable, reliable local businesses

I took a phone call from Robin Denton, of Denton's directories. For as long as we've lived in Melksham, "Denton's" has been delivered every year and has been the direcory of choice that we keep to hand when looking for local numbers. We have a limited marketing budget (and a limited need to advertise the hotel; even yesterday - a wet November Saturday - we had to turn down walk-in would-be guests because we were fully booked). However, Denton's does get looked at, and does bring the occasional enquiry which turns into a visitor then an annual repeat visitor.

Good, stable, local businesses mean so much to us and to the local economy. It's a testimony to both of our companies that I knew Robin when he called, discussed his IT, and was able to give him the go-ahead with unaltered working for the coming year. Both of our companies move forward from a strong base, with things changin, but with things changing to mirror the times. When Denton's was set up in 1967, no-one would have thought of online, but they now have an online dietory, and facebook and twitter. And when Well House Consultants was set up in 1995, we would not have through of a hotel and accommodation.

Last night, we had a split between business and leisure (event in Melksham) guests. Everyone staying with is was with a company or group that has stayed before - guests become friends who know how the place works, and when it works for them, that leaves them in their comfort zone and coming back to us.

And tomorrow I start a series of courses for an organisation I have trained before. Not for a very long time, let it be said. But then in the training business, I certainly don't want the same person to take the same course a second time as that would indicate a degree of failure the first time ... it does - and acceptably - happen on rare occasions where someone learns but gets pulled from a project, only to find him / herself on a similar project a number of years later. Testimony to our training, I think, that they come back to us.

Things do change, and do need to change. I said to Robin that exactly the same text suits for 2015 as suited for 2014 (and 2013) on our adverts. It's too early to say what the case will be for 2016 yet, but I am very much aware of 2000 new homes, and a number of businesses, moving to Melksham, and I'm also aware of plans to include a 125 room hotel as part of one of the developements. For sure, the coming of the canal will help Melksham move itself into a leisure and tourism niche, but thats going to call in some adjustments and changes just as we've seen changes at Denton's and at Well House Consultants over the years.

(written 2014-11-23)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
M106 - Well House Manor - We suggest these local businesses
  [315] Supporting local business - (2005-05-18)
  [851] Emergency First Aid Training - (2006-09-01)
  [894] Where quality costs less - (2006-10-15)
  [1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service - (2007-02-18)
  [1208] Meet other local businesses in Melksham - (2007-05-28)
  [1223] Asda opening large new store in Melksham - (2007-06-08)
  [1250] Business speed networking - a place tonight! - (2007-06-28)
  [1253] Key new contacts - (2007-06-30)
  [1257] Data cabling (Cat 5e), Melksham, Wiltshire - (2007-07-04)
  [1394] Business to Business Networking - North and West Wilts / Melksham - (2007-10-17)
  [1559] Calling on Melksham / Trowbridge / Devizes / Chippenham businesses - (2008-02-29)
  [1655] A date for your diary - 16th July 2008 - (2008-05-27)
  [1883] Spa Road Garage and Convenience Store, Melksham - (2008-11-14)
  [1894] Shopping in Melksham - (2008-11-19)
  [2021] Short health and safety course - (2009-02-02)
  [2027] Who sticks by you in the snow? - (2009-02-05)
  [2591] Melksham Hotel, B and B or business accommodation? - (2010-01-20)
  [2793] They do weddings, we do courses. - (2010-06-04)
  [3337] Home Grown Pigs, near Melksham Station - (2011-06-26)
  [3597] Niche businesses in Melksham. From glass painting to Tcl and Lua courses. - (2012-01-29)
  [4019] Coffee Shop in Melksham - (2013-02-24)
  [4254] Where is Melksham Market? In the Market Place, every Tuesday - (2014-04-02)


Back to
Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
Previous and next
or
Horse's mouth home
Forward to
Folk music train, Westbury to Swindon round trip, 14th December 2014
Some other Articles
Musings on a Welsh town
Java - factory method, encapsulation, hashmap example
Does Santa Claus need a CRB check?
Folk music train, Westbury to Swindon round trip, 14th December 2014
Good, stable, reliable local businesses
Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
Learning to program - what are algorithms and design patterns?
Learning to program - variables and constants
Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
4759 posts, page by page
Link to page ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 at 50 posts per page


This is a page archived from The Horse's Mouth at http://www.wellho.net/horse/ - the diary and writings of Graham Ellis. Every attempt was made to provide current information at the time the page was written, but things do move forward in our business - new software releases, price changes, new techniques. Please check back via our main site for current courses, prices, versions, etc - any mention of a price in "The Horse's Mouth" cannot be taken as an offer to supply at that price.

Link to Ezine home page (for reading).
Link to Blogging home page (to add comments).

You can Add a comment or ranking to this page
Hello. I'm Graham Ellis. If you have a question about the hotel, please ask me or

 

then book here

© WELL HOUSE CONSULTANTS LTD., 2024: 48 Spa Road • Melksham, Wiltshire • United Kingdom • SN12 7NY
PH: 01144 1225 708225 • EMAIL: info@wellho.net • WEB: http://www.wellho.net • SKYPE: wellho

PAGE: http://www.wellho.net/mouth/4327_Goo ... esses.html • PAGE BUILT: Sun Oct 11 16:07:41 2020 • BUILD SYSTEM: JelliaJamb