By Jennie Higson on 14-Apr-2017 - I first saw the 50 things booklet at the ART conference in March and at first glance thought it would be good for the youngsters in our ringing school. However, on closer inspection I realised it is appropriate for all ages and my competitive nature kicked in and myself and my friend, without realising, each […] Read more
By Giles Willson on 11-Apr-2017 - On the first really sunny Saturday of the Year, eleven delegates assembled in Northampton for the ART Bell Maintenance Workshop. When signing up to this extremely good value event, booking a place seemed a great idea, on the day I was wondering what had I let myself in for! The tutor, Jennie Higson, who was […] Read more
By Christopher Wright on 10-Apr-2017 - All this climbing stuff… I feel a bit like the von Trapp Family. We had quite a good session with five of the recruits (and two trainers and a “stooge”) on Thursday – and there seemed to be a demand for another session today (Monday). Bells were muffled (I use the simple motorbike tyre ones […] Read more
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 Christopher Wright on 03-Apr-2017 - I’ve been ringing for some 55 years – but this one is new to me. Suddenly finding myself as a tower captain with no band, a recruiting drive seemed to be called for so yesterday, we held an Open Day. It was advertised with leaflets around the parish, in shops and community boards and the […] Read more
By Alistair Donaldson on 03-Apr-2017 - “Thingummy” was probably devised by Dennis Bayles, and is known by many ringers as “Bayles Method”, more pedantically “Repeating Lead Bob Doubles”. What is it? By the treble making 4 places at the back, and the 2nd making 2 places under it, these two bells are swapped over in their coursing back to where they […] Read more
By David White - Ava Hay 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
By Ann-Kirstine Christiansen on 31-Mar-2017 - Years ago, I went to York to experience change ringing under one of the Danish Church Ministry’s educational courses. In Denmark, very little is known about change ringing, so we ended up attending two 5 days courses within a month. These courses culminated in me ringing a quarter peal with a group of ringers from […] Read more
By Alan Bentley on 30-Mar-2017 - Despite being located in the Somerset hinterland all 12 attendees (teachers, mentors and the one observer) all managed to arrive before the appointed start time at Holy Cross church, to be welcomed with hot beverages and home made pastries, a very fine welcome particularly for those of us who had been travelling up to […] Read more