We had a little extra handbell focus over the Christmas holidays, due to an invitation to a handbell weekend on Tulloch Farm.

Tulloch is possibly more well-known as the location of a quite new ring of 12 bells, but owners Peter Bevis and Helen McGregor are widely known as very...

We haven't reported on any of our ringing since the handbell day, so here's a quick summary of what we have been up to.

• We succeeded with a quarter of Superlative Major with Marcus, using a simple and easy composition (six homes, called sbbsbb). The exotic compositions from a previous...

A few weeks ago I attended my first module of the ITTS (Integrated Teaching Training Scheme), and while I am not sure I ever gained mastery over the many acronyms floating about, I came away with some interesting ideas, which have some applications to handbell ringing.

The most productive concept...

By most standards, scoring less than half of one's scheduled quarter peal attempts would be considered a bit of a letdown.  However, our haul of five quarters from thirteen attempts felt – and was – very successful.  And the mix of Plain Bob and Kent on 6 and 8 represented...

On Saturday we had another successful Scottish Handbell Day, which Tina will write about soon. On Sunday we had a session of trying to make progress with our 8-spliced project. As we have been out of practice over the summer, rather than going for a peal we decided to ring...

Last week, the Pipe family rang a family quarter peal, followed by a family peal of Plain Bob Major in hand.  This may not seem all that remarkable unless you know that the band contained their two sons, who are of a similar age to our own children.  It is...

I've been practising with Mabel a fair bit recently, partly because we haven't been doing much real handbell ringing over the summer. Here are some thoughts on how I use it. It would be interesting to hear from other users.

• When Graham John developed his handbell manager software, enabling hand-held...

On one of my trips last year, when looking for something to read on the plane, for a change I browsed the business section of the airport bookshop instead of the fiction section. I picked up a book called What Got You Here Won't Get You There, by Marshall...

Among the quarters we rang on the most recent handbell day was one of Plain Bob Major, which was Colin's first quarter away from the tenors. As I often do for Bob Major, I called the standard 720 of Bob Minor (i.e. Wrong Home Wrong 6 times, single Home half...

That's a difficult question to answer. Who should we try to count? Everyone who can ring plain hunting on a coursing pair? Everyone who can ring Plain Bob Minor from the trebles or tenors? Everyone who rings handbells regularly?

Instead we can answer an easier question: how many people have...