It has been a while since I have posted. And while we have been busy, not a lot has really happened. Except that tonight in our practice, we finally did something we have been working on for quite a while. In particular, we finally got through Kent Major in a single attempt.

So – sometime last year (see my October 2023 post) we started working on Kent Major. We have been ringing with Maggie on the trebles, Jane on 3/4, Andrew on 5/6, and Randy on the tenors. We have previously been able to get through the entire method, but we have needed to stop and restart partway through. Tonight we got through the entire thing, start to finish. More impressively, it was the first thing we rang tonight, and we just did it! It felt like quite the accomplishment. To be fair, we would not have won any awards for our ringing. But that doesn’t matter – we did it! And we are calling that a result.

Other news – we have a new ringer, Becca. She has rung handbells in the past, but we are teaching her change ringing from the basics. She is picking it up fairly quickly (more quickly than I remember getting this stuff!). She can mostly ring Plain Bob Major on the tenors, with only a little help. She was not able to join us tonight, but we are pleased that she has chosen to join us, and pleased that she is learning so quickly.

The final news is that we continue to work on a quarter peal of Bob Major with Andrew calling the bobs. We feel that we could probably do it now, if we just started when we first meet so we could get through the entire thing in a single rehearsal. But that remains to be seen.

Anyway – we continue ringing. If you are in San Diego and would like to join us, please contact us through this blog.