For those who don't know, "What's hot on BellBoard" is a weekly feature in the Ringing World which prints and comments on the top five performances. At the time of writing (7th December 2020), for the first time in a while, all of the top five are peals. Unsurprisingly in the current...

Two weeks ago I rang a quarter of Bristol in which the pairs were assigned randomly just before we started. We had agreed in advance that whoever got the tenors would conduct - which ended up being me. Yesterday we took the concept a step further by randomly assigning individual...

This morning Tina, Julia and I rang a peal of Cambridge, Kent and Plain Bob Minor in Ringing Room. This is only the fourth peal in Ringing Room, and the first handbell peal, i.e. with everyone ringing two bells each. (There have been two peals in which one person...

Yesterday I noticed a little curiosity about symmetry for handbell pairs.

When ringing a method with a 2nd place lead end, we know that half way through the plain course our bells cross with each other and the second half of the course is the reverse of the first half...

Today Tina reminded me that blog articles get automatically transferred into Facebook, where we have a "Learn to Ring Handbells" page. I've never been a big Facebook user, and my account is more or less completely blank except that earlier this year I joined the Bellringers group so that I...

This evening I rang a quarter of Grandsire Triples in Ringing Room - very satisfying, almost no trips, hardly any internet delays, good pace and rhythm for a time of 36 minutes.

Alban Forster called this composition:

1260 Grandsire Triples
Matthew Durham

1  3  4  6  234567
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-           734265...

For quarters of Cambridge Minor I usually call three wrongs, three homes for the short block, giving 600 and a quarter peal length of 1320. Many people prefer to call something slightly shorter, and one well-known calling for a 576 is to call the tenor 4ths, wrong, home, 4ths, wrong, three...

I've already reported on the Lincolnshire Maximus on 1st November, which I conducted from the tenors. The following Tuesday we rang Lincolnshire again, which I also conducted but from 5-6. I found it much more difficult. I think I was underprepared for the 3-4 course, and the way in which...

It seems to be more than a month since my last blog, so what have I been doing? Plenty of online ringing in Ringing Room with the Five o'Clock Club, occasional visits to the Friday evening Handbell Stadium practice, Tuesday evening sessions in Ringing Room with the Glasgow tower bell band...

One of the Ringing Room quarters this week was supposed to be Stedman Cinques, but Jeff Ladd was having internet problems (which had also been a challenge the previous day for Bristol Royal) and pulled out. Instead, Alan Winter called a quarter of Stedman Caters, which we rang very well...