It has been a while since I have been bell ringing, but I have ended up committed to a couple of sessions of "Handbell Focus" this week. Cambridge Royal this evening, and Spliced Surprise Major on Thursday. I dusted off my old copy of Abel, to see if I could still ring two bells at the same time to a method... and failed rather pitifully.

The problem was that I seem to have forgotten all the blue lines, since the only real ringing I have done over the last year has been bob doubles at my local tower. Grrr. I had to dig out an old RW diary (three years since I got a new one!) to look up the methods. Oh how the mighty (i.e. me) have fallen.