Derbyshire ringer, Simon Melen, took part in the Ringing World centenary celebrations in London last weekend by ringing a touch on 24 handbells. This is thought to be the first time such a touch has been performed in public.
Simon is no stranger to ringing on higher numbers, ringing in many peals in the mid 90's. This culminated in the first ever peal on 18 bells in 1994 and also the first on 20 bells in 1995. Interestingly, adding 2 more bells added 34 minutes to the peal. The former being 4 hours 6 and the later being 4 hours 40.
Click below to watch the video.
I should have acknowledged that the ME has been using me extra
enthusiastically as a punching bag recently & rewritten the following some
time when the bits of my brain were stuck together better but it’s already
another fracking week since I last posted to the blog. What is more
important, literary finesse or bloody-minded obstinacy? Don’t answer
that. I WILL FIGURE OUT THE SCHEDULE OF BLOG POSTS AGAIN. BUT PROBABLY
NOT THIS WEEK.
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was awake & moving by then,* indeed I had been awake & moving for some time
but ...
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