{"id":2234,"date":"2020-09-08T20:16:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2020-09-09T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:48:51","slug":"news-from-the-branch-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/news-from-the-branch-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the Branch \u2013 August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a summary of what\u2019s  been going on in the Bicester Branch in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ringing Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td>\nSaturday, 15 August 2020\n<\/td><td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bb.ringingworld.co.uk\/view.php?id=1385319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Islip (St Nicholas), Oxfordshire<\/a>\n<\/td><td>\nTolling\n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\nSaturday, 15 August 2020\n<\/td><td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bb.ringingworld.co.uk\/view.php?id=1385297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kirtlington (St Mary the Virgin), Oxfordshire<\/a>\n<\/td><td>\n75 Tolling\n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\nSaturday, 15 August 2020\n<\/td><td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bb.ringingworld.co.uk\/view.php?id=1385583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Weston on the Green (Blessed Virgin Mary), Oxfordshire<\/a>\n<\/td><td>\nTolling\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The improvement works at <strong>Weston on the Green <\/strong>are nearly complete;  the new ropes are in and the new carpet is down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>Stratton Audley <\/strong>they are hoping to ring three bells at each of two weddings coming up in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><br>\n<!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ringing Room<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Several groups of  local ringers have been making good use of the online platform for virtual change ringing called <strong><em>Ringing Room<\/em><\/strong>, which is the \u2018go-to\u2019 application used by a huge number of ringing teams in the UK and across the world.  It&#8217;s very enjoyable, is free to use and can be accessed at <a href=\"https:\/\/ringingroom.com\/\">https:\/\/ringingroom.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jon Mills of the Oxford Guild<\/strong> has written an interesting account of his journey to find and use Ringing Room &#8211; click <a href=\"https:\/\/odg.org.uk\/ringing-room\/\">here<\/a> to read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kirtlington, Bletchingdon and Weston-on-the-Green Ringing Room practices<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly\n after lockdown began, the ringers from Kirtlington, Bletchingdon and \nWeston towers transferred their practices to the Ringing Room website, \ncreating a shared virtual tower for weekly practices and for virtual \nquarter peal attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our\n virtual practices are been well attended and we have seen great \nprogress in the learning of methods by all regular attendees, many of \nwhom have only started ringing in the past 2 &#8211; 3 years, with all having \nrung inside to plain courses of Grandsire and Plain Bob Doubles, and a \nnumber ringing observation to touches of Bob Doubles. The team has also \nbeen able to practice variations on Plain Hunt including Treble Bob \nHunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With\n the temporary removal of the challenge of handling together with \nlearning the&nbsp; methods, our ringers have achieved a number of successful \nvirtual quarter peals including first on covering tenor and first on \ntreble. More virtual QPAs are planned.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br \/><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a summary of what\u2019s been going on in the Bicester Branch in August. Ringing Events Saturday, 15 August 2020 Islip (St Nicholas), Oxfordshire Tolling Saturday, 15 August 2020 Kirtlington (St Mary the Virgin), Oxfordshire 75 Tolling Saturday, 15 August 2020 Weston on the Green (Blessed Virgin Mary), Oxfordshire Tolling Activities The improvement works at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/news-from-the-branch-august-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News from the Branch \u2013 August 2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}