A personal post from Graham Ellis
Lisa and Graham live in Melksham, Wiltshire, England

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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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

19th August 2017, 04:30 a.m.

A first visit to the specialist physiotherapist has confirmed that I'm not going to get back the energy and capacity I once had. The deafness in one ear and loosing of my balancing senses in that ear too means that my other senses are having to work much harder (to pick up less information!), and the loss of good timely information means I'm wobbling around, a real klutz, and my muscles are having to work overtime to stop me falling over even on the simplest walking around. So perhaps I do have the same energy I always had - just that it's now being burnt up much quicker in keeping me on the straight and narrow, rather than leaving me resource to do as much as I used to for training, running a hotel, and public transport and other local activities.

My blog post of a couple of months back - http://melksh.am/4739 - listed a dozen changes in our lives this year. Some of those changes come about because of the issue above, others are a re-arrangement affected by Dad's passing in January, yet others relate to the changing nature of the training business and the maturing of my activities relating to public transport, and yet others by a feeling that we can spend a little time relaxing rather than always being on the go.

In some ways, everything coming together has been a nightmare. In other ways, it's fortunate because it allows us to re-focus our lives for the next 10 years in a single step, rather than taking a series of steps through intermediate points which would require lots of resources to reach short term positions. But it has made it difficult to cope with everything, and whilst everyone's been understanding I am very much aware that I have used up a great deal of goodwill and sympathy / let a few things slip and a few people down - I can only apologies for that, ask you to gently remind me what I owe you / may have forgotten, and look to get sorted through and do better in though the autumn.

The week just gone has felt like a turning point. I sit and write this in my new training and meeting room at 404, The Spa. For sure, it's not finished and there's piles of stuff all around me, but the piles of stuff are no longer building up but are staring to whittle down. Similarly seeing light in the museum room that's going to house the Well House Collection. Lots of papers dispatched - relating to how things are settling down for the future, with many of the costs of operating Well House Manor as a hotel dropping out of the system. Safety net documentation provided for a progam support contract where I was frighteningly key man (Kevin - still very much carrying on, just wanted you to have the insurance!).

For the next week, Lisa and I are taking something of a break; there's been scarce a letup do far this year, and even our week in Cornwall could be characterised as very much still working on things, all be it from a different base. Even next week not totally away - allowing ourselves email checks for sure, in amongst resting (if we can remember what tha is) and new experiences, as changes are just as good as a rest. The rest will also give me a chance to recover some pulled muscles from all the heavy-haul stuff that's been going on (and leaves me sitting up for comfort half the night). Please don't expect miracles when we get back, but do expect to see a steady strengthening. meeting timescales, etc, through the autumn.
(written 2017-08-19)

 
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  [1051] Too busy to blog it - but it's great (mostly) - (2007-01-24)
  [2195] A two day gap - first time in five years? - (2009-05-24)
  [2547] The great thing about snow .... - (2009-12-23)
  [2698] Ruth Davis, 1916 - 2010 - (2010-03-28)
  [2886] Congratulations, Kimberly - (2010-07-25)
  [2982] Travel, Transport and Tourism - A vision for Melksham, 2026 - (2010-10-03)
  [3034] Birth Notice - Aeryn Cassandra Ellis - (2010-11-07)
  [3037] Looking back and forward personally - 6 years each way - (2010-11-08)
  [3055] Zyliana Kyrei Cox - (2010-11-16)
  [3108] My First Christmas - (2010-12-26)
  [3224] Melksham Campus - a win / win opportunity, but a severely lacking decision process - (2011-03-31)
  [3240] Melksham Town Council - vacancy in the Spa Ward - (2011-04-10)
  [3283] The juggler - (2011-05-08)
  [3298] Quiet Monday in - (2011-05-23)
  [3413] If its Sunday, must it be Weymouth? - (2011-08-30)
  [3450] A threat in the post? Poor marketing practise from Smiletrain? - (2011-09-19)
  [3511] Melksham has a heart - have your picture taken and support the defibrillator appeal - (2011-11-06)
  [3556] Aeryn at 1 - (2011-12-19)
  [3566] Initial thoughts - response to GW Rail Franchise Consultation for Wiltshire - (2011-12-31)
  [3602] Emerging proposals for land to the east of Spa Road, Melksham - (2012-02-03)
  [3711] Kiss - (2012-04-28)
  [3905] How should we choose our Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner? - (2012-10-27)
  [4111] Zigzag bus - forward for the future, or decaying service? - (2013-06-09)
  [4157] Wedding Photos - Kim Ellis to Kyle Londors, 22nd August 2013 - (2013-08-23)
  [4165] Improving travel advise information in Wiltshire - (2013-09-06)
  [4187] Not treading water, but not risking the ship for a 0.5th of tar either - (2013-10-06)
  [4201] Looking to the future at Melksham Station - (2013-10-26)
  [4221] Celebration of the fruits of LSTF, and of the people who have helped and are helping - (2013-12-15)
  [4235] Sharing my personal best of 2013 - (2013-12-31)
  [4275] Eurpoean Elections, and other elections ahead. Some thoughts on campaigns and policies - (2014-05-08)
  [4281] A different vision for the future - (2014-07-09)
  [4286] Reaction in Radstock to new First bus prices - (2014-07-12)
  [4308] What can you and I learn from online quizzes? - (2014-09-27)
  [4476] Upcoming election - Chippenham Constituency - the major candidates compared - (2015-04-29)
  [4485] Misusing statistics? - the seedy side of election campaigning - (2015-05-04)
  [4489] Election results - what if we had a party list system? - (2015-05-08)
  [4600] A big change in August - (2015-12-25)
  [4625] Where does Wiltshire bus subsidy money come from? - (2016-01-19)
  [4657] Rumours of bus changes by First in Wiltshire - what we know and suspect - (2016-03-01)
  [4658] The end of competition on a bus route - the effects from then end of the 234 - (2016-03-02)
  [4669] Buses - how did we get into the situation we are in? - (2016-04-02)
  [4698] Lisa writes - on the referendum vote today - (2016-06-23)
  [4714] The technical article feed continues - personal updates more proactive on Facebook now! - (2016-10-30)
  [4728] Visiting Los Alamitos Bay Yacht Club - (2016-11-23)
  [4734] Thoughts on the new Blackmore Ward of Melksham Without Parish - (2017-02-22)
  [4735] Revisiting - should I stand for Melksham Without Parish Council in May? - (2017-02-24)
  [4737] Why you should vote for Lisa in Melksham Central - (2017-05-01)
  [4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House - (2017-05-27)
  [4756] Learning how to be a more effective community partner - (2017-07-15)
  [4759] Sale of effects and furniture - 12th and 13th August 2017 - (2017-07-25)
  [4767] Some thoughts on 2017, and looking forward to 2018 - (2017-12-31)


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