Ringing from the trenches, guest post by southdowner

 

It all started so well. Sunday ringing, service ringing, is what bell ringing is FOR. It is the reason that bells were attached to ropes and we (well, I can't take the credit here, but I am a member, if the least, of generations of campanophiles) began to work out mathematically organised knitting   (Robin's shown you the lines, and I know some of you knitters out there have taken to making socks out of them, which sort of proves the point…) umm, I mean the patterns which grown up ringers...