Introductory ‘Conducting Plain Bob Doubles’ Workshop at Marsworth

By on 11-May-2016 - I recently attended this 3-hour course which was hosted by All Saints’ Church in Marsworth, Bucks and taught by Graham Nabb from A.R.T. I was one of the seven participants, all of whom had varying ringing ability. Some did have limited conducting experience, but no formal training. The course was divided into both theory and […] Read more

Ten LtR Certificates and Two Accreditations in a Month – Well Almost

By on 09-May-2016 - Saturday 7th May saw a celebration of ringing, food and drink at Maids Moreton Church, bringing together the local band, its new ringers and various trainers. What were we celebrating?  Well, in mid-January Maids Moreton had hosted a very successful Open Day which elicited a lot of interest in ringing.  Advertising was key to getting […] Read more

Five to Eight at St Mary, Wargrave

By on 04-May-2016 - For the last two Sundays the local Wargrave village band has rung rounds on eight for Sunday service; this time last year it was the front 5! Since then we have used the Art Training Scheme, I am a full member of ART and we have four level 2, and four level 1 passes. After […] Read more

Module 1 Success at All Saints’, Wokingham

By on 28-Apr-2016 - I attended Module 1 at Marsworth in June 2015 as my start to teaching ringing. Oh Graham, you make it look so easy! Eventually I got started with some learners and realised very quickly that adding about 15 foot extra rope to the exercises shown was not always going to work. Despite this Angela Lazda (pictured […] Read more

Can you help?

By on 19-Apr-2016 - If you have a moment I would be grateful if you could go to the following ‘Just Giving’ website page and read my request to help get Cherry Hinton Tower, Cambridge, hand bells restored. You will find the page at: https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/louise-dobson I have only until 22nd March to accept donations to this site. A few pounds […] Read more

First peal for three young Abingdon ringers

By on 18-Apr-2016 - I am very proud of our achievements with young ringers. Yesterday we rang a peal with five of them including three first peals at the first attempt.  And we are thrilled to be the current Ringing World Bellboard Featured Performance! http://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1002402 We run a very lively practice for young ringers each week in addition to […] Read more

New Ringers’ success at Newton St Loe and Corston

By on 04-Apr-2016 - My mentor, Rob Perry and I had rung for some years at Marksbury, near Bath, but out of the blue one day all ringing was stopped there due to frame movement causing cracking of the tower. To suddenly have our bells pronounced ‘unringable’ and to have no ‘home’ tower is a really strange feeling. We […] Read more

Striking Competitions – A Big Help with Ringing Improvement

By on 22-Mar-2016 - For the past three years I have participated in our annual, district striking competition – the first time being six months after commencing to learn to ring. Each time our tower, comprised of relatively new ringers, has entered the rounds/call changes category. I am reminded each year what a great learning activity this proves to […] Read more