Last Monday I opened the handbell bag and moths flew out. Honestly, I am not joking! We have a bit of a moth problem at Albany Quadrant, with a few holes in the carpet, but now they have invaded the handbell bag too. I will redouble my efforts to eradicate them.

The reason for getting the bells out was to ring a peal of Cornwall with Estella and Alex, which we duly did. It was a good peal, without many mistakes, and very satisfying.  I think Alex produced the composition especially for our peal, and it was a good one. All the 5678s and 6578s at the back, as well as 16 5678s and 16 8765s on the front. And, for a change, I was able to ring the tenors and not conduct, so it was much less stressful than some recent attempts. The composition used 6th place bobs, which I have not rung in Cornwall before.

Cornwall has a lot of treble bob hunting, which is usually out of step between the front four places and the back four places. How it feels to ring at any point is determined by whether your bells are in the same half of the row or opposite halves. The 5-6 position spends most of its time split between the halves, but even the 7-8 position has some split sections. In this way, ringing the trebles is less different from the inside pairs than in, for example, Cambridge, where out of step treble bob hunting is a particular characteristic of the trebles.