By Gail Bell on 26-Nov-2019 - It all started after having a go on a mini-ring at an open day at Lincoln Cathedral, when my daughter and I were invited to try a ‘real’ bell. I started to back-pedal – busy lives, teenage kids, working shifts – however,Sandra Underwood, who became our teacher, was not to be deterred. (With a name […] Read more
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By Janet Bond on 23-Nov-2019 - What an experience to see the place where many of our bells were originally cast! I’m not going into the detail of the foundry’s history, or the technicalities of how a bell is made. That’s all searchable, and Wikipedia has lots of what you need to know with plenty of links to in-depth information. The […] Read more
By Ruth Suggett on 20-Nov-2019 - I was recently asked to be a ‘helper’ on a ringing course and I felt it was a great honour to be asked and to be able to pay back in some small way the countless hours experienced ringers (‘helpers’) have given me in my first year of ringing under the ‘Ringing Remembers’ scheme. I […] Read more
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By Clare McArdle on 15-Nov-2019 - You’ve completed the Learning the Ropes scheme – Level 5 done and dusted and your invitation to the Learning the Ropes Masterclass is on its way. Where do you go now? Have you heard of Learning the Ropes Plus? Learning the Ropes Plus is the follow-on scheme to Learning the Ropes.The scheme is open to […] Read more
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By Christopher Wright on 11-Nov-2019 - These children continue to amaze me. The MiniRingers are an after-school club. We attract a tenth of the whole (small) school – and we have a waiting list. That’s not, actually, very hard to achieve. We arrange a variety of different bell-related activities centered around tune and change ringing on bells and chimes. We perform […] Read more
By Tim Farnham on 10-Nov-2019 - I have rung a few quarter peals. That’s not false modesty because I do mean a few. Five to be precise. All the slips in these were lapses of concentration, getting distracted, drifting off, call it what you will. If none of us ever lost the thread like that there would be a lot more […] Read more