Saturday 3 May dawned bright and early though clearly too early for some. Al our travel plans worked smoothly and all 10 of us reached Tewkesbury with plenty of time for breakfast in The Royal Hop Pole Weatherspoon’s. The touch that had been designated for this years’ competition was Spliced Plain and Little Bob Royal, […]
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Wareham, Dorset: Land of Big Hills & a lot of Cider [easygallery id=5] So, apologies up front if my report is not what is expected. As it is my first time writing one, I will unintentionally not follow the guidelines, and probably miss out important information. To begin… the tour was organised by our lovely
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The day started with the majority of the band assembling for a pre competition breakfast in Smithfields market. It was a good hearty start to the day with much meat and was enjoyed by all apart from the much stressed manager who couldn’t understand why his pub was so busy. Breakfast was punctuated by Hills’
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This year’s pancake party, as usual, was a very jolly occasion. Combining perhaps the two best aspects of being a bell ringer, eating food and drinking. Thanks must go to Chloe for masterfully creating wonderful American style pancakes for us to consume! There were a large variety of toppings, my favourite being blueberry and banana.
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At the UL, we are very fortunate to have enough current students, active past students and ‘wannabe members’ to continue hold an Annual peal weekend. This year, as it does every year, our peal weekend took place on the second weekend in February. We had ten peal attempts booked in between Friday lunchtime and Sunday
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In the days leading up to the Winter Tour we had much discussion and dithering about potential floods in Oxford and what public transport would or would not be doing. Happily this didn’t hamper us, the UL were determined, and turned out in large numbers on time at the first tower, St Thomas – ran
I’ve compiled a list of facts, mostly gleaned from other people seeing as I can’t seem to remember much (amnesia, but definitely not of the alcohol induced variety!). Ryan ran the ringing by candlelight ‘I can’t believe it’s not spliced’ sort of came round There was singing of varying degrees of tunefulness from a carol
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Having taken a break last year, it was decided that the UL should once again entertain the shoppers of London with carols, raising money for the Southwark Cathedral bell fund. After a few ad-hoc practices in early November, Jacqui started to organise some proper practice sessions. It was at this point we found out that
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The 68th Annual UL Dinner weekend started off on the Friday night with some open ringing on the 12 at St Seps, with lots of people present we were able to ring lots of Grandsire, Stedman and even a bit of Bristol Max. It was clear from when they arrived that some of the Freshers’
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