Last Monday we finally rang a quarter of Sgurr a' Chaorachain Surprise Royal. It's taken a while - according to the blog, our first practice session was on 19th June 2023. I should say though that we haven't been exclusively ringing Sgurr a' Chaorachain all that time. There have been plenty of other quarters, including three successful handbell days and quarters with a range of visitors. But we kept returning to Sgurr and gradually got to grips with it.

It will be a few weeks before we have a 10-bell band again, and we have some other projects to work on. I think we should ring Sgurr again to try to polish it. The ringing last week wasn't as good overall as in our previous unsuccessful attempt, but we persevered and we are getting better at not being fatally put off by mistakes.

Tomorrow we're going for a quarter of Rhodium Surprise Major, for a reason that I will explain later.