A write-up of the outing will appear shortly.
2011 Outing pictures
Broken stay at Brill!
11 members turned out to Brill on Monday 4th April for the Branch Practice. 6 towers were represented. We rang rounds, plain courses of Grandsire Doubles, a touch of Plain Bob Doubles, and a couple of plain courses of Plain Bob Minor. The bells caught a few ringers out, but sounded really nice. Unfortunately there was a little mishap at the end as we set up – pride and one stay hurt, but nothing that cannot be fixed. Looking forward to the Branch Outing on Saturday.
March Triples practice
The triples/major practice this month was a fun evening – 9 ringers banded together to ring Grandsire Triples (plain courses), Kent TB Minor, Plain hunt on 7, Treble Bob hunting and we even tried a course of Stedman Triples – one ringer was heard saying: ‘I may not get this entirely right!’, but at least we tried. All in all a very encouraging evening which swept away a large number of cobwebs.
2011 Branch Outing details
Bicester Branch Spring Outing
Saturday 9th April
Banbury area, by car
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Middleton Cheney, All Saints | 6 | 22-2-15 in D |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Chacombe, SS Peter & Paul (GF) | 6 | 13-3-8 in F |
| LUNCH – George & Dragon, Chacombe | |||
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Cropredy, S Mary the Virgin (GF) | 8 | 16-1-16 in F |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Mollington, All Saints (GF) | 6 | 4-2-6 in C |
Ambrosden BP report
On Friday 4th March Ambrosden hosted a Branch Practice. The bells hadn’t been rung for some time (there is currently only one ringer), but 9 members of the branch (from 5 branch towers) met together to remind the locals there are bells. The vicar popped in on his way home – he had said to his wife earlier that evening that he missed hearing the bells, and arrived home to hear us ringing 🙂
We rang call changes on 6 and 8, Plain Bob Doubles, Grandsire Doubles and plain courses of Reverse Canterbury (following a request).
Minutes of 2011 AGM
The Minutes of the 2011 AGM (Sat 19 Feb, held at Stratton Audley) are now available.
Feb’11 Triples & Major Practice report
Sadly only 5 people turned up at the February Triples & Major practice so we only rang Doubles and, following a request, Stedman Minimus! I would really like to encourage more people to attend to make these practices useful for everyone.
Anthony Cole
Joint Ringing Master
Branch AGM 2011
The Branch AGM is on Saturday 19th February, 10:30am at Stratton Audley
AGM Agenda 2011 (pdf)
Minutes of 2010 AGM (pdf)
10.30am Ringing
11am Service
11.30am Meeting – see agenda below
12.30pm Lunch at the Red Lion, Stratton Audley – all welcome