By Mike Rigby on 12-Mar-2020 - The photo shows two ringers from my tower who both damaged their right foot within a few days of each other,thus forming what they chose to call ‘Club Foot’. They found that they could still enjoy ringing, even wearing a surgical boot, provided they added a little extra height to their other foot. But it […] Read more
By Mike Rigby on 10-Mar-2020 - One of the things I do for my (ringing) sins is to organise the Thursday morning training sessions at the Edgehill Ringing Centre in Kineton, Warwickshire. We run two sessions of about 75mins each, each with two trainees who take it in turn to ring with a ‘good’ band around them. Of course, this means […] Read more
By Mike Rigby on 05-Dec-2019 - You may well feel that as a novice ringer it’s not your place to ‘interfere’ with the running of your home tower, but we should all think about the many different jobs which need to be done to keep things moving smoothly and happily. The Tower Captain may seem supremely confident and on top of […] Read more
By Mike Rigby on 22-Aug-2019 - My wife isn’t a ringer, but a classically trained mezzo-soprano who teaches singing and gives the occasional recital; usually it’s just her on stage with a piano accompanist. Bell ringers give performances too, and everything that my wife teaches singers about preparing to perform is analogous to what we ringers need to do – apart […] Read more
By Mike Rigby on 29-Jul-2017 - I have just returned from ringing at “Shakespeare’s Church”, Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, a wonderful 10-bell tower. I rang with a group who call themselves the Wombelles, and I have been so impressed with the way the group is run, and how much fun everyone has, that I felt it was time to tell others. […] Read more