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.

So, this past weekend we had an intensive weekend of 23-spliced practice with Jonathan and Angela, starting on Friday evening and continuing through to Sunday afternoon.  It was a great success and pushed us much farther forward than we expected.

Our aim was to just keep working as far as...

I've written before about handbell-friendly compositions, but now I'm going to start an occasional series about compositions that I like for particular methods. First up is Plain Bob Major, which is the most common eight-bell method for handbell peals and a natural choice for a band starting out on peal-ringing. The...