One of our most exciting bits of
news up here in the Tower this month is that we have a new learner. Robert has been coming for half an hour
before our regular practice for about six weeks now and already can handle a
bell on his own. We are now introducing
him to ringing rounds with other ringers and hopefully it won’t be long before
he is ringing with the band. Continuing
on the theme of learners; Mike Jenkins
(yes he is related to me) rang a quarter peal of Plain Bob Triples on October
28th. This was his first
quarter peal “inside” i.e ringing a working bell rather than the treble or
tenor. I also scored my first quarter of
Yorkshire Surprise Major on October 21st so there was some celebrating in the
Jenkins’ household last month!
We are having another good run of
successful quarter peals at the moment - 7 without loss so far - the most
recent ones being two lovely quarter peals rung half muffled on Remembrance
Sunday. I don’t suppose you noticed but
this year we “tolled” the tenor for the few minutes between the end of the
quarter peal and the start of the Town Remembrance Service. We think it worked
well.
As we approach the end of another
year all that remains for me to do is to wish all of you, on behalf of all the
ringers, a Very Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year.
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