Tina and I have just booked a stand at the Ringing Roadshow, which is taking place on Sunday 4th September after the Central Council meeting in Nottingham. This gives us a target for the launch of "Change-Ringing on Handbells (Volume 2: Advanced Techniques)", which is nearing completion. It's substantially written...
We've done a lot of ringing in the last two weeks, a lot of it on handbells, and I've rung with an unusually large number of people. I had a visit to the Edinburgh handbell band, which included losing a quarter of Bristol and practising some other surprise major methods...
This week's Ringing World (20th May 2022, number 5795, if you are reading later) has an interesting article by Richard Smith about a new method: Jura Bob Caters. I will try not to reproduce too much of what he writes, which includes fascinating material about how he designed the method...
In 2011 we rang a peal for the 80th anniversary of the first peal by the Glasgow band, which was Plain Bob Major on handbells. At that time in 1931 I don't think the band was up to ringing a tower bell peal. The peal pre-dates the formation of...
The handbell day on Saturday went well, although it was almost delayed because a train derailment meant that nearly all the trains from Glasgow to Shettleston were cancelled. Fortunately there was one remaining train at just the right time for all the ringers who needed it, and we managed to...
The biggest Stedman news this week is Henry Pipe calling the Impossible One-Part on handbells. It's a peal composition by Alan Burbidge, carefully designed to be as difficult as possible. There are equal numbers of plains, bobs and singles, and no repeated sequences of more than a few sixes...
We had a session with Jessica and Colin this afternoon. We have previously worked on some exercises leading towards Kent, especially treble bob hunting and Bastow, so today we decided to intensively practise Kent places. This is in preparation for out handbell day on Saturday, when I have scheduled both...