Punknowle Weekend
Saturday 13th June
Our first quarter was at Rampisham - Initially we thought we were locked out - however when Tim eventually tried the door with a good shove it opened!! We eventually started ringing 30 mins late. We all grabbed hold to ring the bells up - we hadn't got that far up when the rope on the 2nd snapped!! Tim went up to the bells and lowered the rope so we could still ring the quarter. This time we successfully raised the bells and started the quarter. About 10 mins in Jo became aware that her rope was gradually snapping - then completely broke!! At this point we abandoned our quarter attempt and made our way to Toller Porcorum.
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Our last quarter for the day was at Abbotsbury - not an easy tower to get so we were looking forward to ringing a nice easy quarter to make sure we got it. However when we started ringing up there was no sound and we wondered if the bells had been tied! All but the treble eventually started to sound. After much faffing the treble was still not working so we had another abandoned quarter!!
Back at Punknowle we had a lovely evening playing games and having a BBQ.
Sunday 14th June
After a relaxed morning we headed to Beaminster for a quarter. Unfortunately our luck hadn't changed from yesterday. 9 of us arrived at Beaminster - Mike had completely forgotten! Sue stepped out and we rang the quarter on 8 instead!!
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