This week we are taking a holiday on the island of Arran, staying in the lovely village of Lamlash. Arran doesn't have any tower bells, but Timothy Billings, who comes to the mainland from time to time for tower bell or handbell ringing, has started a handbell group. Yesterday we...

We've been making steady progress with our daughter Dorothy, and we recently reached the point of practising touches of Bob Minor in which she was unaffected. She has taken to the 3-4 pair in preference to 5-6, so instead of calling three homes with her on the tenors, we tried...

Last week we rang a quarter of Plain Bob Major with Colin, which we had not quite managed to complete on handbell day. It went smoothly. For a change, I called this composition, which is a nice one-liner.

1280 Plain Bob Major

W  B  H  23456
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This afternoon we rang Jessica's first handbell quarter: Plain Bob Minor with her on the trebles. We had an attempt a few weeks ago, which was going well but we had to stop when we realised we had miscalculated the time available before needing to drop our son Thomas off...

The methods I looked at in the previous article had 6th place lead ends, so what about 2nd place methods? The simplest is Plain Bob. As before, the coursing order during the lead is 124653. At the lead end the 3rd makes 2nds, which jumps it over all the bells...

A couple of generations ago, nearly every ringer could complete a plain course of Plain Bob Minor in hand - it was a part of learning to ring.  A friend of mine has recounted how she learned in a classroom, with all the ringers holding two bells (not necessarily a...

Yesterday we were supposed to be ringing a quarter of Lincolnshire Royal at Angela's house. After the instruction in the afternoon to begin social distancing, we had to cancel it. Cancellation of all tower bell ringing swiftly followed. There has been some speculation about remote handbell ringing via video conferencing...