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 Beth Johnson on 05-Nov-2019 - In order to get your circle of work knowledge really slick, so you always know which dodge to do next, we have invented a game. There are three sets of cards: Set 1, blue – has each dodge for Bob Doubles on a card. Set 2, dark green – has the same dodges, one on […] Read more
By Clare Gould on 30-Jan-2018 - Saturday 28 October was a ringing milestone for myself and my husband, Nathan. We managed to ring our first quarter peal inside to Plain Bob Doubles. I was on bell 3 and Nathan 5. We were both so pleased and relieved to ring the quarter peal without incident, something we never thought would be possible […] Read more
By Helen McGregor on 04-Oct-2017 - Here at Tulloch we have just run our first training course. Presented with 8 people all keen to learn bob doubles, we needed an imaginative approach to give them all enough rope time…here it is…..Put a tutor on one bell, tell everyone else to catch hold of a bell. Their aim is to strike their […] 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 Chris Lomax on 01-Aug-2015 - I was tutoring a learner in Bob Minor this morning with a very experienced band (hundreds of peals and up to Maximus). I asked them if they knew what to do when ‘Go Bales’ was called – no one knew so, undaunted, I taught them. Of course they picked it up easily and agreed that it’s […] Read more