Eleven ringers from seven towers came to tonight’s branch practice at Kirtlington, including Willie our president, Jeremy Adams, ringing master and Kathryn Grant\u200b secretary, the band further strengthened by the arrival of Richard Hazeldine.<\/p>\n
Ron Burgess\u200b also came with Derek, who started ringing only 7 weeks ago and is now ringing rounds and call changes with teams of six and eight. We also included Derek in a reducing rounds exercise, which practices standing at hand stroke as well as pulling off ahead of heavier bells when building back up to full rounds.<\/p>\n
We rang for our first method Plain Bob doubles plain courses, Sue on 3, Judith on tenor, both nicely rung.<\/p>\n
Richard called a number of mini- touches of Plain Bob Minor (3 consecutive bobs), in which the lightest 3 just rang Plain Hunt on 6, while the heaviest rang alternate 5\/6 down, 5\/6 up and made bob. Judith and Sue alternated on treble, Ellie ringing 3.<\/p>\n
As Ellie \u200b will be ringing her first quarter this weekend, we rang a touch of Bob Doubles, Ellie on 3, Judith on tenor.<\/p>\n
We were then encouraged to ring Plain hunt on 7, then on 8, albeit a bit crunchy, then for Stu \u200b we rang Little Bob Minor, Judith trebling.<\/p>\n
Finally, a ‘boy-band’ of Willie, Jeremy, Ron, Richard, Steve and Stu rang a plain course of Bob Minor on the back 6 before we rang all 8 down in Peal.<\/p>\n
All in all a great practice with something for everyone. Best of luck to Ellie in her Quarter on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Well done and thanks to all for attending. Hopefully see lots of you at this month\u2019s special practice on 17th<\/sup> October at Islip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eleven ringers from seven towers came to tonight’s branch practice at Kirtlington, including Willie our president, Jeremy Adams, ringing master and Kathryn Grant\u200b secretary, the band further strengthened by the arrival of Richard Hazeldine. Ron Burgess\u200b also came with Derek, who started ringing only 7 weeks ago and is now ringing rounds and call changes … <\/p>\n