Author Archives: David White - Ava Hay

More difficult than I thought!

By on 31-Mar-2017 - Over the past few weeks it has been a rollercoaster of emotions with acceptable and awful sessions. At one stage I near gave up but a following session on 8 bells went very well and i am being pushed hard to ring changes. OK with the changes themselves but having trouble with the commands interpretation. […] Read more

Some early ‘moments’

By on 13-Dec-2016 - I have had a number of training sessions now and I think the phrase ‘one step forward and two back’ fits the bill until you have a session in which you take two steps forward and stand pat. Last night was such a session and my ‘target’ to help ring in the new year is […] Read more

The saga begins ( or continues )

By on 30-Nov-2016 - I am very new to bell ringing. To date I have only held a bell rope on three separate occasions over two full weeks. The last was to ring some rounds with 7 other more experienced ringers. A fabulous experience. I decided early on that I would present as female. This was because I earnestly […] Read more