Today we gave our refurbished Taylor bells a longer tryout with a good peal of Bristol, arranged at the last minute. It was fairly lucky that we managed to get the band together, as Alex had train problems coming from Dunblane and Julia was nearly flooded off the M74.
So...
Well, not new, but newly refurbished. When we went to Nottingham for the Ringing Roadshow in September, we handed over our Taylor 12 to Lewis Benfield for an overhaul. After doing the work he dropped them off at my dad's house because he was there for some ringing, and yesterday...
Last weekend I rang a tower bell peal at Guildford, which had originally been planned for June 2020, cancelled because of covid, eventually rearranged for April this year, cancelled again because more and more of the band were catching covid, and now finally scored. I arranged to stay for the...