Below is a list of our proposed ringing times. Any alterations will be made in red during the month.
Tuesday 3rd August - 8pm until 9pm - Practice
Sunday 8th August - 10am until 10,30am - Service
Wednesday 11th August - 8pm until 9pm - Practice
Sunday 15th August - 5.30pm until 6pm - Service
Tuesday 17th August - 8pm until 9pm - Practice
Tuesday 24th August - 8pm until 9pm - Practice
Sunday 27th August - 10am until 10.30am - Service
Tuesday 31st August - 8pm until 9pm - Practice
This week we are going to continue looking at plain hunting. Plain Hunting is the basis of all method ringing, and if rung well can sound just as good as any complicated method.
Tuesday 20th July we are expecting 5 or 6 of our local ringers and so we will be mainly looking at Plain hunting on 4 or 5, but who knows now the restrictions lifted we might get a visitor or two, and I will have to 'think on my feet' and adapt the practice to suit!
We are going to look at ringing Plain Hunt a change at a time.
Plain Hunt on 3 (Singles) has 6 changes
Plain Hunt on 4 (Minimus) has 8 Changes
Plain Hunt on 5 (Doubles) has 10 Changes
Plain Hunt on 6 (Minor) (Yes you've guessed it!) has 12 Changes
Plain Hunt on 3 is the full extent on 3 bells, there are only 6 possible changes of 3 bells and these can be achieved by plain hunting. There are 24 possible changes on 4 bells, 120 on 5 bells and 720 on 6 Bells.
To see the method Click he link below:
It was a bright and sunny morning when I arrived in the church grounds for our 10am start. The temperature was already soaring in the twenties, this was going to be a hot and sticky 3 hours!
I met with my fellow ringers from the Shropshire association, it had seemed along time since we met last time in January 2020 at Upton Magna https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1321341 before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Anne Williamson told us some history of the church and parish as her late husband had been vicar there for a number of years and she had been tower captain. She told stories of how the organist used to go and play the organ in the middle of the night. There is a castle to the east of the church which looks interesting to visit, first built around 1100 A.D. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/moreton-corbet-castle/, and so I am planning to take my family there fir a few hours.
We marched up the tower wearing face masks and rung our individual bells up. Most of us hadn't rung much since the lifting of lockdown, and I hadn't rung any minor for at 18 months, so to go straight in and attempt a peal (5040 changes taking approximately 3 hours) was going to be quite interesting. The plan was to ring some Oxford and Kent first but we quickly realised it wasn't going to be an Oxford or Kent morning, so we moved on to Cambridge and Plain Bob. During the time I realised the methods had stopped in my head, but what I seem to have remember along the way, were the little 'traps' that one can fall into, but we all managed and completed the peal in 2 hours 45 minutes. Further details can be found from this link: https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1453241
Details of the tower can be found below: https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?tower=11380
NOTICE OF VACANCY PARISH COUNCILLOR
Haughton Parish Council
A vacancy has arisen in the office of Councillor for the Parish
Council.
Individuals who wish to be considered to fill the vacancy must
do so in writing as follows:
A letter detailing your reasons for applying and what you feel
you can bring to the role of Parish Councillor for Haughton.
Completed letters must be submitted by Wednesday 18 th
August 2021.
Please send to: Chairman Councillor Mike Allen, Glenroy,
Station Road, Haughton.
or send by email to: clerk(at)haughtonpc-staffs.org.uk (replace (at) with @)
Dated: 18 th July 2021 Suzanne Potts – Clerk to the Council
