Catching the 06:21 train from Paddington is hardly the ideal start to a day, but after everyone had woken up a bit, it turned into a rather sunny morning, well that is until a rain storm caught us as we arrived at Ashcurch, fortunately Katie had the idea to book a taxi in advance, and […]
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Friday 5 May The weekend started for most with a trip down the M3 (or railway) to Romsey to arrive at Hursley, Rosemary’s “home tower”. After an hour of some quality 12 bell focus, we adjourned to “The Dolphin” for beer and banter. There was much excitement when it was discovered the pub was having
This year’s event was kindly hosted by Luke and Harry at their Wapping Pad. The President arrived equipped with two bottles of Malbec, which managed to disappear nicely during the evening. Rhiannon played the role of mother hen and helped Luke make the batter and organise the kitchen, while the others chatted in the lounge.
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Dedicated to the memory of Roger Bailey. This year’s UL peal weekend was held, as is customary, across the second weekend of February. Proceedings started on Friday evening at St Peter, Walworth. The plan had been to ring Superlative, but the UL aren’t very good at sticking to plans, so a peal of Cambridge Major
The day started quite early, getting the 9.04 train from St Pancras station. We were worried that we weren’t going to have very many people turn up as only a few of us got on Ben’s suggested train, however, by the time we got to St Alban’s (about 20 minutes later) we discovered our worries
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Scary towers, entertaining speeches and a double-dose of S Club 7. This was the UL Dinner 2012. The day began with the traditional UL ring at the Queen’s Tower. Having heard about the tower’s fearsome reputation, it was with some trepidation (and exhaustion, what a lot of steps!) that I made my way up the
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This year SUA was held in Bristol (9th-11th Nov). We all arrived on Friday evening, some of us earlier for a quarter peal at St James, some of us a bit later such as Roxy and me who, because of the crowdedness of the train, ended up sitting on the floor for the whole journey
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The evening started with a meal at the Hare and Tortoise. This was poorly attended by UL members, with only 3 attending (one a fresher) out of the 5 present in total. After a pleasant meal we moved to the Hoop and Grapes, where more members were present. The clientèle at this establishment mainly consisted
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This year the London 12 bell striking competition was hosted on the, well, awkward bells of St John’s, Croydon “Croydon Minister”, and the test piece was a fairly simple two courses of Stedman Cinques. I remember it being a really cold morning, but not sure whether there actually was snow… Just before the draw Shirley
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It was the 20th of October, 2012, when the UL set off for Staines. And while this year’s batch of freshers might not have been as sizeable as that of previous years, this did not keep us from having a brilliant tour. Departing bright and early from Waterloo, we first made our way to Egham,
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