Resources from the web site of Well House Consultants on the subject of Christmas and New Year. We provide
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 |
4227 | Happy Christmas from the Well House Manor team A very happy Christmas from the Well House Manor team. We've enjoyed having you stay with us in 2013 and look forward to seeing you again in 2014.
Pictures by Rachel, for our company Christmas meal - a great evening at the Greyhound in ... | 2016-08-11 |
4364 | Christmas day in Melksham A rare day (almost) off as Rachel took the breakfasts and hotel service, and no new guests are expected (thank you Rachel) ... and a quiet Christmas with Lisa and Dad, Billy and Gypsy.
On call this evening ... but all is quiet. And back to work for boxing day breakfast, with room changes and then ... | 2014-12-30 (short) |
4365 | The changing face of Christmas Christmas day was spend queitly at home - or, rather, mostly at home. A couple of brief trips of 6 miles each way to Devizes to pick up dad and bring him around for a Christmas Dinner, there being no bus service to use either one way or the other, which is what we do for most visits. I cooked most of ... | 2014-12-30 |
4363 | A quiet evening in Melksham - awaiting Santa
... | 2014-12-25 (short) |
4357 | Seeing Christmas Coming to Melksham Billy, Gypsy, Lisa and I went out last night to see how Melksham's preparing for Christmas
... | 2014-12-20 (short) |
4329 | Does Santa Claus need a CRB check? My correspondence with a local council ....
The TransWilts Community Rail Partnership has arranged for Santa Claus to be in the waiting room at Swindon Station on one weekend day in December when the train from Westbury arrives, and to meet with the children and their parents / guardians before it ... | 2014-11-26 |
2486 | Santa Special - Trowbridge and Melksham to Swindon This is an archived article from 2009! ... Santa is back again on 14th December 2014 ... see http://twcrp.info/santa
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 ... | 2014-11-04 |
4235 | Sharing my personal best of 2013 Best day - wedding of my daughter Kim to Kyle, 22nd August [link]
Best friend - Lisa [link]
Best team - ours at Well House Manor [link]
Best course subject to teach - Python (but that's a close-run decision!) [link]
Best Well House Manor event - a tie between the Edwardian afternoon with croquet, ... | 2014-01-03 |
3957 | The week before Christmas "Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."
- Clement Clarke Moore, 23rd December 1823 [link]
"Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the day
Not a moment was left to post here in my regular way"
- Graham Ellis, 19th December ... | 2012-12-22 |
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 wtih 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 ... | 2012-11-04 |
3765 | Christmas in June? Melksham hotel bookings and Santa train They say that Christmas planning comes earlier and earlier each year and indeed earlier today - 15th June and even before the longest day - I have been asked a couple of questions
Well House Manor will be open over Christmas, as we have for the last couple of years. Our quiet hotel provides an ideal ... | 2012-11-04 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
161 | Christmas break For the next 10 days, I'm taking a Christmas break from Open Source training. A time with friends and family and recharging batteries ... although I'm sure that I'll be on line from time to time. Posts to "The Horse's Mouth" will be less frequent until the New Year - it's just not the season that most ... | 2006-06-05 (short) |
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