Initially seven ringers were at the start of tonight’s branch practice at Bletchingdon, a select group of regulars with Kathryn our Branch Secretary in attendance. Having rung up all six followed by a few courses of Plain Hunt doubles called by Julie and then Grandsire doubles called by Sue, we might have thought that would have been all the band for the night.
However, at that point we were joined by Emma, Laurence and Graham, which enabled us to focus on getting quality time ringing touches of Grandsire, Plain Bob and Stedman for our team to practice trebling, tenoring and inside with standers as required.
Sally and Julie got at least three touches of Grandsire and Plain Bob to cover and treble to, Judith rang inside affected to two touches of Grandsire, trebled to another touch and tenored to Grandsire and Stedman touches.
Christine rang unaffected on 3 and 4 to two touches of Grandsire doubles, gaining in fluency, while Sue trebled to touches and had one touch inside half-hunt.
We attempted a touch of Stedman with Kathryn and Graham inside, which got over halfway before firing out, before time sadly ran out and we had to ring down and take the obligatory team photo near the wonderful Remembrance display (see if you can spot Kathryn, who was excellent at hiding at the back).
A really good practice, with a lot of ”prime rings” achieved. We are certainly ready for first quarter peals for some of our ringers, I think.
