Yesterday was the Ringing Roadshow, where I had a stall to sell handbell books and mugs. The adjacent stall was for eBells, where Ben Johnson and his son Alex were demonstrating how to use them as well as showing off their latest 3D printer in action producing eBell parts. The new printer is smaller, faster, quieter and cheaper than the ones we were using at the beginning of the eBells project in 2020. Technology keeps improving.

I met Mary Jones, who blogs as the Accidental Ringer and writes for The Ringing World from time to time. Not only did we meet, we rang handbells (and she bought a copy of  Volume 2). We have previously communicated through the medium of blog comments - her writing is always thought-provoking. I also met Helen Philips, who is a leader of handbell ringing in South Wales.

I took about 30 copies of Volume 1 and 20 copies of Volume 2, but there are still quite a lot left. If anyone wants a copy of either volume at the heavily-discounted Roadshow price, contact me and we can make an arrangement.

To return to our Horton's Four project, we decided to ring a quarter of each method individually. I have written several articles about handbell-friendly compositions, but Horton's Four is an extreme example of ringing an ordinary composition (actually its difficulty makes it far from ordinary) on handbells, so I decided...

We are just back from a handbell weekend in Tulloch, hosted by Helen McGregor and Peter Bevis. Saturday was the general handbell day, with practice sessions and quarters including Plain Bob Minor (Thomas Gay's first quarter), Stedman Triples, Yorkshire Major and Kent Royal. We had also planned to spend Sunday...