It has been a while since we have had much news. But tonight we did something different, and I thought I would record it here.

We were three tonight, Jane, Maggie, Randy. Jane decided that we should try something different, and found an interesting method called Single Canterbury Pleasure Bob. It is essentially Plain Bob, but with Kent places. Maggie rang the trebles, Jane was on 3/4, and Randy rang the tenors.

The first time through, we crashed on the very first change. Maggie and Randy weren’t expecting the Kent Places at that first change, and were confused about what Jane had done! She explained it to us, so we gave it another go.

The second time through, we crashed on the first lead end. We have been ringing Kent some (though it has been a while), and so you would think that we understood Kent Places at lead ends. But this one tripped us up. We decided to go step by step for few changes, and got to a point that we could comfortably and reliably ring the first two leads. (We were ringing Minor, so there are only 5 leads.) After a couple more attempts, we decided to take a break.

After 5 minutes or so of chatting, we gave it another try. And this time, with some bobbles, and stepping on each other’s bells once or thrice, we were able to get through the entire method. We rang it a couple more times, getting more and more confident with each attempt. The challenge was successful!

Jane suggested we ring a short touch of SCP B, but as it was getting late we decided instead to ring a short touch of Bob Minor, as fast as we could ring. And even though we occasionally stepped on each other’s bells, we were able to ring a 180 touch of Bob Minor. At that point we called it a night, and went home happy!