Southern branch band

We have a good ringing relationship with our neighbours over the border in Penrith and surrounding areas, which we have facetiously named our Southern Branch.  These posts chronicle our cross border projects with Julia Cater, Matt and Jess Durham, Nick Tithecott and Duncan and Sally Walker.  In the meantime, they are working on their own handbell revival in the area.

For once, everything proceeded exactly according to plan!

We started by slotting in an extra quarter on Friday evening. When I discovered that Matt would be arriving relatively early, I thought I'd better organise something to occupy us for the evening, so we rang Bob Major for Zoé's first handbell...

We rang another quarter of Stedman last week, this time with Julia conducting. There was a false start but after that we rang well, and Julia did some impressive correcting of mistakes. We're not ringing this week, but next week it's my turn to conduct, which I will do from...

We've started a Stedman Triples project with Marcus and Julia. Tina, Julia and I all like Stedman, but there's never much enthusiasm from the rest of the Albany Quadrant regulars, so when Marcus mentioned that he had been trying Stedman with the Five O'Clock Club and would like to do...