The Bear has left us. That prolific, amusing, travelled, entertaining, exasperating and sometimes grumpy one more often known as Roger Bailey has left us. For us, it is an enormously personal loss, as it will be with so many other handbell ringers.
For Roger rang with just about everybody, and...
We're very sad that Roger has gone. We failed to ring a peal in his memory yesterday evening, but we managed a quarter afterwards. We'll try again for the peal another day.
Roger had a huge influence on my handbell ringing. I first met him in October 1991, when...
This Thursday past I started a new block of beginning handbell ringers at our local primary school. They were a great group and it looks like they may progress well. I couldn't help notice, though, that a lot of the children had a pretty good idea what I was going...
Quite a long time ago, I produced tables of the most popular methods for handbell peals of Major, Royal and Maximus, which showed that although Yorkshire Major is more commonly rung than Cambridge Major, the preference is reversed on higher numbers.
Just for fun, here are the five...
Yesterday we rang a quarter of Cambridge Royal, getting us to the milestone of 100 quarters in the house. A total of 33 people have been involved, which we are pleased with as part of the point of the Scottish handbell days is to increase the number of people...
We did not manage quite the amount of handbell ringing we had anticipated over the holiday period - the usual suspects, 'flu and family events, conspiring against us.
However, Simon completed a project we had been talking about for quite a while, and the quiet period between Christmas and New...