Resources from the web site of Well House Consulaants on the subject of Christmas and New Year. We provide open source training course and business hotel accommodation in Melksham, Wiltshire, England

Our training and hotel 'high' season is 11 months long - we get just a month's low season - the latter half of December and the first half of January - and during that time there's so much happening away from the accommodation and courses, much of which you'll find in this Christmas and New Year section.

Articles and tips on this subject		updated
3562	Christmas Day - for unique pictures Christmas Day is ... an opportunity to take some pictures that would be impossible for the rest of the year. Early in the morning, and in the evening, streets are uniquely empty. I drove up to Devizes to pick up Dad during the morning, took him back up there in the evening, and took the opportunity ...	2011-12-31
3561	Happy Christmas ... a Christmas morning walk in Melksham A Happy Christmas, everyone. Now that we've moved on from the "Children" to the "Grand Children" phase of life, Christmas has moved on too. Our own kids are playing hopscotch from one set of Grand-s and in-Laws to the next and juggling with the political decisions of who to join for Christmas lunch, ...	2011-12-31
3557	Melksham Christmas Lights - Town, Shops and Private Houses Melksham's Christmas Lights Team has done the town proud this year - I took a late evening walk around last night, and the amazing digital cameras that we do not have allow us to record them too. And there are some beautifully dressed shop windows, and quite a few private houses which add to the decorative ...	2011-12-24
3538	Santa Train - another successful trip - 4th December 2011 Today was the "Santa Special" outing from Melksham ... some 140 people gather at Melksham Station ... The train was especially extended for us ... up to three carrages. And thank godness - for we would have been tightly squeezed with less. Santa had gifts for all the children - and of course the ...	2011-12-04
3535	Melksham, Luxury Hotel Rooms, Christmas. Are your family coming to visit you in Melksham over the Christmas period? Do you have room for them to stay with you at home? If you're going to be a bit cramped, why not have them stay with us at Well House Manor? We're a quiet business hotel just a few hundred yards from the Market Square, and ...	2011-12-03
3530	A typical weekend?? On Friday, We visited a town near Sharpness and met Billy - a Greyhound / Summat cross - who's had a hard life already in his first two years. On Saturday, Lisa from the Bristol Dog Action Welfare Group visited us to have a look at our place (and us) to check that we were suitable foster parents. And ...	2011-12-03
3116	Are there newspapers on New Years Day? Do the shops open on Easter Sunday? Do trains run at Christmas? In England, newspapers are published every day of the year, except Christmas Day ... and that's been the case since 1912, as you can see from this old post from the New York Times. Train services in England run every day of the year except Christmas Day and Boxing Day (26th December). And shops in ...	2011-01-03
3110	The days after Christmas The period between Christmas and the New Year is a quiet one for business - and it gives us a chance to catch up on a few lot of things, and to recharge our batteries too. Picture, earlier today, Lisa and Graham getting mixed up between work and play, and Gypsy asking which of us is going ...	2010-12-28
3095	The Christmas Season has arrived Remember that song - "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas". Well - in many ways it feels like it's already the Christmas holiday. There's snow on the ground, traffic is quieter, and it's bitterly cold. Phones are quieter (that's largely because we've changed our phone company and our number ...	2010-12-24
3101	The week before Christmas The canal at Devizes earlier today as we passed through. You'll see from the ice that we weren't passing through by boat, nor was anyone else From the Perl for larger projects training course - a diagram to illustrate the problem of "diamond relationships". This is where a module "a" loads a module ...	2010-12-24
2486	Santa Special - Trowbridge and Melksham to Swindon Santa Claus will be on the "TransWilts" train from Trowbridge and Melksham to Swindon on Sunday, 6th December, organized by the Melksham Railway Development Group. Santa's been a regular visitor to the line in early December for a number of years, but this year he's extending his ride to start from Trowbridge ...	2010-11-03
2978	Christmas 2010 - Well House Manor, Melksham, Hotel Well House Manor will be open throughout the Christmas and New Year period, and we'll be delighted to welcome guests who are in the area to visit friends and family, to see the Christmas Illuminations, or just looking for a few days away. We'll be offering a quiet location - no parties or banquet meals ...	2010-10-01
2549	Christmas Day ... ... in pictures ...	2009-12-25 (short)
2543	Day and night at Christmas In the centre of Melksham, you'll find an illuminated sign saying "Melksham at Christmas" and another pointing you to Longford Road - a street of fairly typical 1950s or 1960s houses about half a mile away. Let's see what we find at Longford Road ... Here's a daytime picture taken just the other day ...	2009-12-19
2528	Melksham Christmas Lights It's December ... and the Christmas lights are coming out. A tree appears here, a string of lights there, and the odd magic wand to say "this is a special time of the year". (It was special in previous years too - {link}) But this is Melksham, and Christmas lights here are special - the construction ...	2009-12-10
2529	Santa Special, 2009 Exhausting .. but rewarding ... day It must be nearly Christmas Pictures ... added on 7th December ...	2009-12-08 (short)
980	Street Scene Pre-Christmas street scene in Melksham. Some of the locals decorate their houses and the other locals come around and look over the gates. The point of it? Festive fun, and collecting for charity. Lights are on from dusk until 22:00 until 5th January. Longford Road, Melksham. Further pictures in ...	2009-12-02
1914	It must be nearly Christmas Crowds waiting to join the "Santa Special" at Melksham; on the train with Santa, and Longford Road, Melksham - the Christmas lights. All pictures taken on the evening of 30.11.2008. Update - December 2009 New Official Melksham Christmas lights page here. ...	2009-12-02 (short)
1952	Small Print From an email just received: This message and any associated files, is intended only for the purpose of conveying SEASONS GREETINGS to the individual or entity (gosh that's rude - ENTITY!!!) to which it is addressed and does not contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright or legal ...	2008-12-25
1959	- Happy Christmas!Guess who's around tonight! ...	2008-12-24 (short)
1942	Christmas scenes and events Melksham's Market Square hosts a Christmas Tree each year, and there are lights on the Town Hall. Although it's still a fortnight to the big day, Christmas Parties are in full swing ... indeed, both Lisa and I were out last Thursday evening, and we hosted an event at Well House Manor the following morning. ...	2008-12-15
1931	Frosty Morning, foggy evening A frosty morning here in Melksham. This is actually yesterday's picture - taken in our garden with the Christmas berries and the haw frost - headed for Bath and the Christmas Market A long day - back on a delayed evening bus (25 minutes late from Bath - good Ole First!) that dropped us at the end of ...	2008-12-08
1484	A christmas message Happy Christmas everyone! ...	2007-12-25 (short)
1483	What have hotels and bananas got in common? They don't stop for Christmas! ... The bananas go on ripening, and we have breakfasts and checkins to do tomorrow! ...	2007-12-24 (short)
1481	The Christmas Letter It's become fashionable at this time of year in certain circles to write a newsletter to tell all those people with whom you remain in touch only at Christmas what's been happening with you and your family all year. I confess that I'm reminded of the film "as good as it gets" with some of these letters, ...	2007-12-22
1462	10 training days to Christmas. There are just ten training days left to Christmas ... and I have four courses to give. Next Monday to Wednesday, I'm running a public Tcl course that's followed by a Tk course on Thursday and Friday. It's a bit late for me to advertise the Tcl (!) but actually our hotel is full so any more places ...	2007-12-12
953	Christmas in November Does Christmas come earlier each year? Melksham's Christmas lights are up! To be fair, they were just testing them last night when I took this sneak preview, and they won't be switched on until Santa comes on 2nd December. Come to think of it ... that's only a few days away! ...	2006-11-29 (short)
541	Christmas is for everyone Our amongst the holiday-season crowds yesterday ... we took in the Charles Dicken's Chistmas Carol at Midday at the local theatre, and in the afternoon took the streetcar to Pier 39. Tyler's first time in San Francisco, and he sucked in the place - the sealions, the shops, the arcades, the view out to ...	2006-06-09
543	The world didn't stop for Christmas Walking along streets yesterday it was quieter than usual - save for the people asking for money who seemed to be around in even greater numbers than usual. Perhaps that's because people are more generous to them at Christmas so they're all out - or perhaps it's simply because they've got fewer people ...	2006-06-09
540	Christmas Party Yesterday, I came across this group, well-worn from a heavy schedule in 2005, and looking as if they were slightly the worse for wear after their office party. Ah - the effects of the new drinking laws look like they've spread rather wider than the centres of our cities, and rather beyond the groups ...	2006-06-05 (short)