Yesterday we rang a peal of Bristol Royal, which was a good achievement by all the band. I thought the method-ringing was noticeably better than in our two previous peals of Bristol Royal, with fewer trips overall, fewer big mistakes, and much less need for conducting.

However, there was a...

This week we are taking a holiday on the island of Arran, staying in the lovely village of Lamlash. Arran doesn't have any tower bells, but Timothy Billings, who comes to the mainland from time to time for tower bell or handbell ringing, has started a handbell group. Yesterday we...

We're thinking of producing a second edition of Change-Ringing on Handbells Volume 1, with some updates. We've already corrected various small errors, just by uploading new versions of the book to Amazon (one of the benefits of publishing with a print-on-demand system). But there are some more significant additions...

I've been thinking about this for a while, but this week I finally got around to making a prototype. I call it the eBells Hub. It's a gadget that you can plug a set of eBells into, and it makes the bell sounds. That's it. There's no configuration, you just...

It's a shockingly long time since I last wrote anything, so here's a quick update.

We've been continuing with the Sunday afternoon band, working up to touches of Bob Minor with some detours into Double Bob and Reverse Bob. We've realised that another useful diagram that isn't in the book...

We've had a few sessions of practising Remus, making some progress, but yesterday we tried a different approach. It was partly inspired by one of Mary Jones's blogs. What had been happening was that we were ringing in "quarter peal mode" even though we were still at the stage...

On Sunday we had a surprise minor session with Alison, who came over from Edinburgh. She had previously rung a quarter of Cambridge on the trebles, and wanted to practise the other pairs. After ringing courses on 5-6 and then 3-4, we kept her on 3-4 and worked our way...

We've been making steady progress with our daughter Dorothy, and we recently reached the point of practising touches of Bob Minor in which she was unaffected. She has taken to the 3-4 pair in preference to 5-6, so instead of calling three homes with her on the tenors, we tried...

Back in 2013, as part of a list of ways in which I wanted to improve my handbell technique, I wrote:

• Make friends with more coursing orders. It was said of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, by his collaborator John Littlewood, that "every positive integer is one of...

While I was updating my records after our peal on Friday, I noticed that 2022 had equalled the highest number of SACR handbell peals in any year, with a total of 11. The previous high points were 2015 and 2017, also with 11 each. Moreover, the number of peal ringers...