Melksham Oak Community School near completion - the signs are up, and the oak tree itself is looking somewhat more pretty with spring leaves. More pictures [here].


Where is this magnificent building? Is it Rome or Athens, perhaps? No - it's the old Court House in Devizes and, regrettably, it's in a very poor way. More pictures [here].


Although the weekend has been dull so far, there's a magnificent green-ness about West Woods - the bluebell woods near Lockeridge off the old A4. See pictures [here].


And on Friday, I was invited to the meeting of the Heart of Wessex Community Rail Partnership and took a few pictures of Pen Mill Station in Yeovil - [here].


For the past several weeks, I have been training and writing up Open Source programming material 7 days a week - so here's a wider view and some pictures taken on Friday and over the weekend.

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I find myself in the extraordinary position this Monday morning of not knowing whether I'm training or not today. "Surely not on a Bank Holiday" you may ask, and so I would have thought. However ... an urgent requirement came up, and the (probable / possible) customer said could make today; I'm committed from Wednesday on for several weeks, so "Monday it is". But having made the provisional booking, and been re-assured that "the order is on its way", the order didn't arrive. And a chaser email on Friday went unanswered.

What should I do? Well - I've planned this as a working day now, and I have plenty else to do if we have a "no show", or if the customer turns up without a purchase order or other form of payment. If there's no order, then I'm going to take a deep breath and say "no training"; if you think that's uncaring and I should look for an alternative way, yes - I feel it is. But - I'm caught between a rock and a hard place on this one. The organization from which the guy may turn up is a big local one, with whom we've (uniquely amongst our customers) had repeated problems of this sort in the past, and I really don't want to take on a debt that in all probability would need strong chasing when it goes overdue - we have far better things to do that have this extra paperwork and the emotional stress it brings.

(written 2010-05-03, updated 2010-05-04)

 M200 - Well House Manor - Wiltshire
  [829] Where to go within 30 minutes of Melksham - (2006-08-11)
  [942] Index of Pictures - (2006-11-24)
  [946] Look around this mouth. - (2006-11-26)
  [971] Wiltshire letterboxes - (2006-12-07)
  [1106] Spring Pictures - (2007-03-11)
  [1112] Bank Holiday country breaks in Melksham, Wiltshire - (2007-03-17)
  [1129] Golfing, Wiltshire (near Melksham) - (2007-04-01)
  [1156] Two by One by Wiltshire - (2007-04-20)
  [1399] Pictures Framed - (2007-10-21)
  [1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game - (2007-11-11)
  [1521] Evening drive across the roof of Wiltshire - (2008-01-27)
  [1859] Wiltshire at dawn - the tourist trail - (2008-10-29)
  [1981] Bitter cold - (2009-01-07)
  [2128] Wiltshire - where everybody matters - (2009-04-13)
  [2176] Balloon Journey in Wiltshire - (2009-05-12)
  [2279] Understanding the new local government structure in Wiltshire - (2009-07-11)
  [2288] Wiltshire Community Area Partnerships - (2009-07-15)
  [2411] Further North - long summer days and lovely countryside - (2009-09-19)
  [2594] Melksham Area - your community view is sought - (2010-01-23)
  [2713] History is all around us - (2010-04-09)
  [2882] Seeing Wiltshire - from a Melksham base - (2010-07-21)
  [2888] Recent Pictures - (2010-07-27)
  [2923] Fresh air and beautiful places in Wiltshire - (2010-08-15)
  [3513] Olympic Torch - dates and places in Wiltshire in 2012 - (2011-11-08)
  [3723] Bank Holiday Monday, so it was pouring with rain. - (2012-05-07)
  [3729] Then and now pictures of Melksham - on show through the summer - (2012-05-11)
  [3800] Fancy a weekend away? Try Well House Manor in Melksham, Wiltshire - (2012-07-09)
  [3806] 2011 Census results - initial figures for Wiltshire. - (2012-07-17)
  [3989] Plenty to see and do - even in Winter - on a Well House Manor weekend - (2013-01-24)
  [4084] New Pictures - Melksham Pack Horse Bridge - (2013-05-12)
  [4702] Up and down TransWilts - some pictures off the rails! - (2016-07-07)

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