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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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

We've tried to buy locally where we can in our refit of Well House Manor - and that's meant first Melksham, then Wiltshire before looking further afield. Some excellent suppliers have come through, but there's some bare faced cheekiness in some suppliers.

"Where quality costs less" said the tag on a TV at Leekes - the Melksham Department store - yesterday, where we were getting a few odds and ends. I have, frankly, found the store's staff uncaring and prices very high in the past, and so we've not used them much on this project. But just out of grins, I had a look at the TV price as it was the model I've just bought five of. 799.99 was the price; hmm - the highest I've seen. We got ours for under 550.00 each, from a well know British High street chain.

Sorry, Mr Leekes, I'll buy locally where I can but NOT if it costs me 250.00 pounds per unit extra. And to claim that quality costs less on your label in such a case ... well, I'm afraid I trust you even less now that I did in the past.

40w bulbs ... and we wanted a number of bubble packs. A good job we noticed that there were a couple of 60w packs mixed in. We carefully sorted Mr Leekes stock for him
(written 2006-10-15)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
M350 - Well House Manor - project diary
  [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
  [555] Hotel novelties - (2006-01-05)
  [571] Well House Manor - (2006-01-21)
  [677] Sympathetic development - (2006-04-09)
  [720] Planning a hotel refurb - an example of a Gant chart in PHP - (2006-05-14)
  [721] Residential - (2006-05-15)
  [739] The eye - (2006-05-31)
  [744] We can offer a room, but we can't operate on a dog - (2006-06-05)
  [756] Seeing the bricks for the trees - (2006-06-11)
  [776] Naming Rooms - (2006-06-24)
  [816] Above the parapit, Well House Manor - (2006-07-28)
  [844] Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-08-24)
  [855] Fitting our bathrooms - (2006-09-04)
  [858] From the Manor written - (2006-09-07)
  [862] 4 weeks to go - (2006-09-11)
  [881] Coming together. - (2006-09-29)
  [890] Open - (2006-10-09)
  [902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham - (2006-10-22)
  [931] Before and After - Well House Manor - (2006-11-18)
  [932] A tale of a wee wall - (2006-11-19)
  [941] Snagging - (2006-11-24)
  [1069] Rail trouble forced me to buy hotel - (2007-02-07)
  [1087] Telling a story in different ways - (2007-02-20)
  [1098] Three big events - TWSW, Business of the year and the police - (2007-03-03)
  [1211] A lot has happened in a year - (2007-05-31)
  [1975] Well House Manor Hotel - on plan for 2009 business guests - (2009-01-03)
  [3014] Well House Manor - the next six years - (2010-10-24)
  [3585] The changing Hotel and Bed and Breakfast business in Melksham - (2012-01-18)
  [3645] Keeping our hotel looking like new, by using our gained experience - (2012-03-09)
  [3847] The Accidental Hotelier - (2012-08-24)
  [3963] National TV - Melksham - 9th January 2013, Pre-alert. - (2012-12-27)
  [3968] Expecting nothing, but prepared for anything - (2013-01-05)
  [4012] A course is not just for a year - its for a career - (2013-02-20)
  [4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House - (2017-05-27)

M106 - Well House Manor - We suggest these local businesses
  [315] Supporting local business - (2005-05-18)
  [851] Emergency First Aid Training - (2006-09-01)
  [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)
  [4327] Good, stable, reliable local businesses - (2014-11-23)


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