Last night there was a special practice at Islip with the nominated methods being April Day Doubles (a Doubles variation – Plain Bob Doubles with a Grandsire Single as a Bob), and Plain Bob Triples.
10 ringers and a new learner (welcome David!) banded together and the evening started with a faultless 120 of April Day 🙂 I could tell it was going to be a good evening! We then went on to ring plain courses of Plain Bob Triples (not quite as perfect, but we got there and it sounded great in places), a touch of Grandsire Doubles, more April Day and then we decided to try the special method from last month (Kent TB Minor).. a bit ropey in places, but we succeeded where we failed last month so progress!
Interspersed with all this method ringing we gave David goes on the 6th (only his 2nd practice) and by the end he was ringing the bell on his own with a tutor standing close by to give the odd helping hand.
No practice would be the same without a trip to the pub afterwards so we went to the Red Lion for a change. Lovely to see Willy about and looking better than he has for some time – great to have you back 🙂