A few losses

Well, Rutland was a step too far on Thursday. We completely destroyed it three times, before opting for a shaky quarter of Yorkshire. After that me and a mate busted up to the pub and then on the way back, heard about MJ. Tragic loss! It's a shame really that people couldn't appreciate him while he was alive.





We lost a peal two leads after the first part end on Saturday. It's my first in a while that's just fallen apart like that. It's a while until my next peal but then I enter a massive run of two or three a week, I'm aiming for at least 35 this year which should be easily achievable.

Zurich

Not been doing much toady, just sitting around and hence the blogging. Had a good night last night with a mate back from uni, good to see him even if he did look retro as.

Just been spending a bit of time deciding what composition to call on Sat and proving JAA's suggestion (which turned out to have repeats in so maybe not that one!!) and will go with a simple three part. DAC's back in business for the peal so we have a strength eight, as it were.

Seeing as my hands are buggered I'm going to ring the 7, so my challenge now is to call it and keep the coursing order right from the 7th, remembering that a middle will be when the 7ths at the home position but the coursing order will be affected like a middle. Not too much of an issue (I've done it before quite a few times) but it does worry me a little!

Such a (June) Delight!

I'm funny

Had a much, much better last two days ringing wise. Scored two peals, one of June Delight at Chalfont (my 3rd on the 5th and 17th in the tower) and Yorkshire at Amersham, which I rang the tenor for (3rd on the bell, 27th in the tower), taking 2hrs 52 and therefore getting my average on the bell to a respectable 2hr 53.

The Chalfont peal saw me equal NJB, the other Amersham "youngster", in peal figures and overtake him in towerbell figures, and the Amersham peal was my 50th with JAA which is an achievement seeing as I've only rang 56 lol.

We had tower tours up the tower after the peal yesterday (and a JAA tyre blowout) which meant for a hectic day with work afterwards. That's it really lol.

Injury, and tiredness...

Did a 5am start today, and its now 10pm and I'm shattered. And the painting at tesco was shit as it was the wrong colour paint, so there are grey splodges everywhere. Yay.

Ringing wise, however, things are good. Sadly, DAC has injured his shoulder and therefore is pulling out of at least 3 peals this week. But every cloud has a silver lining, and this one is that as Roy Woodruff is the replacement for the Saturday peal, we're now ringing something simple, Yorkshire, rather than Heighington, which is a nice change, adn I am now not in line to ring the tenor (which is good in this case) as Roy is capable. It's just fingers crossed that David can recover prior to the peal on the 27th at Amersham, or I'll be stuck with the tenor for that one...

Back from the heat

Been back from Cyrpus for almost a week now, had an awesome time with the woman. Since I've been back we've just been chilling loads and I've played a ridiculous amount of guitar which has been awesome lol.

As I was off work on Saturday and the rest of the so called Amersham A Team was available we entered the branch six bell competition for only the second time in my 8 and a bit years ringing here, although myself and VJS have rung in a joint Chalfont/Amersham band a couple of times. We came second last year to regular winners High Wycombe, but this year, on the awful bells at Fulmer, beat them by 11.5 faults or thereabouts and therefore we're representing the branch at the final, in the Vale of White Horse branch, in October, which will necessitate a return from University only a week in. Myself and Nick Balderson, I think the two only under 30's in the competition, rang the badly struck 2nd & 3rd and that, according to JAA, is what won the competition. I remember thinking while ringing that we were handling them well.

This week is my return to peal ringing after a month off, with a peal of Pitmans 4 at Totternhoe on Thurs (followed by a QP of Stedman Cinques), then June Delight at Chalfont on Friday and Highington at Amersham on Saturday. A week later, on 27th, I'm calling a peal of Zurich S Major, again at Amersham.