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3 days on Alderney

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We can offer any number of 3 day events as a long weekend or as a midweek break

We have free B&B accommodation: Sharing a shower room = a double room & a twin room. The twin room is up a flight of space-saver stairs. An ensuite triple room being a large single and a set of adult bunks.

Plenty of other accommodation on the island: visitalderney.com/stay we will collect you in the morning & return you at night

We will focus on any one of the following 5 options – though I don’t promise there will be no overlap!

  1. Handling/ropesight/tenor cover & plain hunt
  2. Plain bob doubles
  3. Grandsire doubles
  4. Plain Bob minor with starting to treble bob
  5. Handbells

Ideally there will be a group of you from the same tower wanting to work on the same aspect of your ringing & then I might see if 1 or 2 others from a different tower want to join us. Course fee, Ploughman’s lunch & all day tea & coffee plus tower donation = £60. We will probably have fish & chips one night & a Thai/Indian takeaway the other night – priced individually

All you need to arrange is travel to Alderney airport (aurigny.com) or harbour  alderneyferryservices.co.uk) & we will collect you

Most of the ringing will take place on Wells Bells but we will also visit St Anne’s belfry either to join an Ay practice or for a special session there being joined by St Anne’s ringers

For more info/agree the dates please email: [email protected]

Autumn Meeting, 18 September 2021

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AGENDA

Agenda of Meeting, Sat Sept 18th 2021– St Pierre du Bois

  1. Remembering members who have died – (Barrie Linnecor (13/3/2021) & Philip Maddocks (2/6/2021))
  2. Apologies for absence: Jersey (impossible scheduled travel options), W&P Guild master – Pete Jordan. Paul Lawrence, John Lihou, Tim Wainwright. & Logan Lord
  3. Notification of matters for AOB please bear in mind Jsy can’t get here
  4. Minutes of ADM 2020 – online at cibells.com. Matter arising
  5. New members   (Richard Uzell ( St Anne’s & probationary))
  6. Treasurer’s report – online at cibells.com
  7. Ringing Master’s report
  8. Election of officers: any proposals for officers? Current officers are all willing to remain in post if that is the will of the meeting.
  9. AOB
  10. Date and venue for Spring Meeting – Sat April 23rd 2022? Jersey or TC
  11. Competition piece for 8 bell – Grandsire triples PBPBPBPS x2
  12. Update on transfer of CI from W&P to SDG
  13. Defer decision on whether Ay youngsters now at college in Gsy can ring for 2 Island Teams in 8 bell competition due to Jsy absence
CI District Accounts 2021

Ringing master report 2020

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Ringing master report 2020

It was nice to hear how bands were practicing St Simon’s on various numbers of bells in preparation for the April District Meeting and Striking Competition. Unfortunately this year has been extraordinary and not in a good way. Guernsey and Alderney are very fortunate to have been able to return to ringing as normal for a long time now whilst our friends in Jersey and the UK face tight restrictions on how long and how often they can ring.
Our focus has to be first and foremost on keeping our bands together. Whilst we come together to ring we also come together as a community that has to look out for each other.
Moving forwards we are preparing to join the Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers and whilst we can’t get stuck in with them socially and in the tower straight away I hope we can make a conserved effort as a branch (as we will soon be re-titled) to attend Guild events and forge new bonds of friendship. Saying that, we leave the W&P on good terms and whilst we are moving to Salisbury we need not say goodbye to the W&P nor the long standing friendships and connections we have made over the past 35ish years.
Despite the disruption of lockdown we have had a productive year with over 100 quarter peals rung in the district and over 50 containing some sort of first including first quarter and first as conductor as well as many many first in method / variations. Sunday service ringing continues at all towers as well as extra service ringing and other events on top of weddings and funerals. All this shows we are an active, dynamic, learning and progress focused district and it is a credit to all of us, those who are learning, those who are supporting, those who are organising and those who are turning out week by week to ring for all these various reasons. All I ask is please don’t stop, keep pushing yourselves, keep supporting each other and above all keep enjoying your ringing.

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Ringing Master’s Report 2020

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Ringing master report 2020

It was nice to hear how bands were practicing St Simon’s on various numbers of bells in preparation for the April District Meeting and Striking Competition. Unfortunately this year has been extraordinary and not in a good way.  Guernsey and Alderney are very fortunate to have been able to return to ringing as normal for a long time now whilst our friends in Jersey and the UK face tight restrictions on how long and how often they can ring. 

Our focus has to be first and foremost on keeping our bands together. Whilst we come together to ring we also come together as a community that has to look out for each other. 

Moving forwards we are preparing to join the Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers and whilst we can’t get stuck in with them socially and in the tower straight away I hope we can make a conserved effort as a branch (as we will soon be re-titled) to attend Guild events and forge new bonds of friendship.  Saying that, we leave the W&P on good terms and whilst we are moving to Salisbury we need not say goodbye to the W&P nor the long standing friendships and connections we have made over the past 35ish years. 

Despite the disruption of lockdown we have had a productive year with over 100 quarter peals rung in the district and over 50 containing some sort of first including first quarter and first as conductor as well as many many first in method / variations. Sunday service ringing continues at all towers as well as extra service ringing and other events on top of weddings and funerals. All this shows we are an active, dynamic, learning and progress focused district and it is a credit to all of us, those who are learning, those who are supporting, those who are organising and those who are turning out week by week to ring for all these various reasons. All I ask is please don’t stop, keep pushing yourselves, keep supporting each other and above all keep enjoying your ringing. 

The Channel Islands Pirates

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The Channel Islands Pirates will be taking part in competition in York July 4th:-)

27 teams have entered but the organisers have split them into method ringing and call changes teams so all 27 teams can enter (there had been the threat of a ballot if more than 24 teams entered)

We will be a method team, probably Bob Triples.

40 yrs ago

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40 years ago Peter & I rang our first qtr peal. We rang it together, I had the treble as I could see it (but not hear it) & Peter rang the tenor as he could hear it but couldn’t see it:-(
bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1314594
We couldn’t let this anniversary slide by even though we were in Tulloch and half the band was away, so we resorted to handbells:
bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1314045
It was good fun:-)
Helen

Moving the ADM – Sept 19th 2020 ADM to be held on Guernsey

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The Alderney band – faced with the reality that Jersey will be unable to join us in Sept 2020 for the ADM if we retain the opportunity to host the meeting – surrender that option.
We are most anxious that any reference to ‘moving the venue to another island’ is couched in terms which reflect our surrendering the option is NOT because we don’t want to/can’t host it but because we want to give every island the best chance of attending.
This is to be considered a one-off surrendering, we fervently hope that present inter-island travel difficulties will not persist too far into the future.
The Alderney Band