By James Johnson on 07-Apr-2017 - In a ‘past life’ I was competent in many areas involving rope. After a break of over twenty years, today I made a short splice on two different coloured pieces of rope and whipped all the ends. I am happy with the result after such an absence, so I’ll take the work along to […] Read more
By James Johnson on 07-Apr-2017 - QUIZ 1 Read more
By James Johnson on 29-Mar-2017 - Today, 25 March 2017, I helped my Ringing Master Colin Ward, repair the Tenor Stay in our Tower. We went into the bell chamber, as you do, and saw the slightly damaged Stay so Colin said, “we might as well stay and fix it”. Sorry for the ‘groans’ to you old hands that have heard it innumerable times, but as a […] Read more
By James Johnson on 10-Mar-2017 - Linda and I decided “What the heck, we’ll give it a go..” which is pretty much our approach to Life really, so we did just that, and here we are ringing bells… however, I should begin at the beginning. Life, as it is wont to do, turned several corners recently, leaving us with time on […] Read more