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.

A week after the previous attempts, we got together again and succeeded.


Scottish Association
Glasgow
1 Albany Quadrant
Sunday, 11 October 2015 in 2h40 (15C)
5152 Spliced Surprise Major (23m)

224 each Ashtead, Bristol, Cambridge, Cassiobury, Cornwall, Cray, Double Dublin, Glasgow, Ipswich, Jersey, Lincolnshire, Lindum, London, Preston, Pudsey, Rutland, Superlative...

On Friday evening we had our first attempt for the peal of 23-spliced. We didn't get it, but we got well into the 5th part, with mostly very good ringing. That's more of it than we have rung in one go before, so although it was disappointing not to reach...