I learnt a long time ago that trying to combine too many activities into one bundle usually doesn’t work. However, something compels me to test this rule periodically, just in case it is no longer true. After the latest test, I can report that it is still true. I hope this finding will benefit those who are considering tests of their own…

For one reason and another, we gave in to the temptation to combine two handbell peals and a tower bell peal, and it didn’t work out. The Kent Royal was perhaps a little too ambitious, and those of us who had just rung a tower bell peal were a little tired. Anyway, we didn’t do very well, but we did eventually manage a quarter.

The tower bell peal, by the way, was very good.