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Pull the bloody bell!
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Stourbridge rocks!
August 28, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Hmmm, that's on me...
August 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Project "Bristol Max" showing mild success tonight! An impromptu number of ringers meant we had enough to try out 2 leads, with quite a good success rate! Reasons to be optimistic 😁
August 10, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Started playing Final Fantasy VI recently and amazingly come to the conclusion that everybody else came to 30 years ago... It's rather good!
July 16, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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I’ve always found the dietary concept of “a square or two of dark chocolate” incredibly depressing. That’s not a treat! Might as well be a couple of radishes.
July 7, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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The best way to ring some spliced major is just to conduct it yourself!

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1344 Spliced Surprise Major (8m) rung at Ipswich (Minster Church of St Mary le Tower), Suffolk
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July 5, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Not a bad day at the office given the heat! Managed to get the hang of the crosswind that was coming from the industrial fan in the ringing chamber
June 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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The dog refuses to use her cooling mat, so I've had a lovely day with it down the back of my chair.
June 24, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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I call this the, "What's the matter Danny?" build...
June 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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One of the great things about holiday flights is having time to catch up on all these great films, and finally being able to go back and read Darren's columns without fear of spoilers.
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Oh, I went long on "One Battle After Another" for @secondwindgroup.com.

How Paul Thomas Anderson crafted a tale that understands the one key advantage revolution has over fascism. We are all in it together.

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Early in One Battle After Another, as the revolutionary group known as the French ’75 collapses in the aftermath a bank robbery gone wrong, Howard Sommerville (Paul Grimstad) explains the concept of a “trust” device to panicking father Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is about to go on the run with his infant daughter Charlene (Chase Infiniti), who have just been given the identities of Bob and Willa Ferguson. The trust device plays a musical cue. However, it does not work in isolation. If the trust device plays that musical cue in proximity to another such device, the two will harmonize and produce a melody. In that way, in that moment, the two parties holding these devices will understand intuitively that they can trust one another. The only other people carrying such devices are fellow revolutionaries. It is a way for Bob and Willa to recognize allies that they might not know that they have. The trust device is only used a couple of times within the movie, most notably in an early sequence where Bob’s old colleague Deandra (Regina Hall) rescues Willa from a high school dance moments before a military raid and at the climax when Bob and Willa are reunited on a desolate Californian highway. However, it serves as an extended metaphor for one of the core themes of One Battle After Another. As in a lot of Paul Thomas Anderson movies, music is important. Throughout the film, the scattered and fragmented members of the French ’75 identify one another by quoting the lyrics of Gil Scott-Heron beat-poem anthem The Revolution Will Not Be Televised at one another. Deandra coaxes Willa through it before the rescue, and Bob struggles to remember the lyrics while on the phone to an operator (Jena Malone). In some ways, this is just a human version of the trust device, a way for the two characters to understand that they are part of a common cause.
April 30, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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Has anyone ever had an alcohol chocolate that they've ever actually liked? Getting ready to throw my annual haul of Bailey's Truffles, and Whiskey Drops into the bin...
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Starting to get the hang of this malarky of running the practice! Can't for the life of me stop asking people to "knock behind" when they're going to be turning it in 🙄
March 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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A rare absence on practice night yesterday - off doing District things, like organising a QP at our planned striking competition tower. No bells broken, ropes frayed, or angry neighbours! A success!

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1260 Plain Bob Doubles rung at Easton (All Saints), Suffolk
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February 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Had a good chat about the plans for the Ipswich Training Bells last night - very exciting stuff! I can't wait to teach lots of new people to ring!
February 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Can't tenor behind, but very good boy once he gets to lead!
December 2, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Very sad to hear about the passing of Jim Towler. I was one of many ringers who had the pleasure to have him in the band for my first peal - his enthusiasm for encouraging ringers to keep pealing was one of the main reasons I stuck it. He will be sorely missed.
December 1, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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The yearly tradition of losing a peal for the Christmas Tree festival continues today with having to stop 5 courses from the end of Grandsire Cinques with the tenor ringer not feeling well. Ey well, if it was easy, it wouldn't be worth doing!
November 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Always tricky when only 5 people turn up to a Surprise Major practice! Two touches of Stedman Doubles later, we were ready to go to pub - better luck next month.
November 29, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Oh no! It's that time of year where I start getting chased for reports! How to summarise a busy year of ringing 🤔 Interpretative dance?
November 21, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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Had a blast at Erin Cinques tonight as well. It's really great to see that yesterday's QP band had some solid front-work! All the rows were much cleaner without wondering if it's a dodge or lead first...
November 18, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Cracking practice tonight! Some fabulous visitors with some even more fabulous Stedman, Cambridge and Yorkshire. One of those rare nights where I even managed to sit out!
November 18, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Lovely composition by John Hyden tonight. Perfect for giving some other members of our band some intensive Erin practice.

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1260 Erin Triples rung at Ipswich (St Mary le Tower), Suffolk
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November 17, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Always great to be part of a first for someone. Well done Lorna!

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1260 Plain Bob Doubles rung at Ipswich (St Matthew), Suffolk
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November 13, 2024 at 9:21 PM