Tina got in quickly with two articles about our progress with the Horton's Four methods, so I'll add my thoughts as a comment instead of another article. The main lesson for me was yet another reminder that handbell ringing requires a much more thorough knowledge of the methods and the composition. The quarter we rang is essentially the first 40 leads of the Horton's Four peal, with small adjustments at the end to bring it round. I knew the composition and methods well enough to conduct the peal, but when we started ringing it on handbells, the concentration required to ring Glasgow and Belfast meant that I constantly miscalled it. Tina wrote that we got to within three leads of the end on our first attempt, which is true, except that after we broke down, I realised that I had left out an entire course earlier on. Every subsequent attempt that evening, I also miscalled. On handbells I find that either the composition or the methods have to be almost automatic, pushed down to a less conscious level. I manage this by being rather unadventurous with compositions; also I have now had a lot of practice at the tenors course of most of the methods we ring. So what I need to do now is a lot more Mabel practice at Glasgow and Belfast, as well as keeping the composition in mind. As Tina wrote, we all managed to improve enough to score the quarter the next week, but we will have to get much better if we're going to ring a peal. Another thing we need to do is work out the most useful landmarks in Belfast. We are pretty good at Bristol now, but when someone does get a bit out, we know how to use the positions of the point blows, and the half leads, to resynchronise. In Belfast the half lead positions in the frontwork are less obvious, and there are so many point blows that it's hard to know which ones to focus on. I think the point blows immediately before and after the half lead, in 3-4-5-6, should be useful, with the right hunting between them, but we need practice at making use of that information.