Central Bucks Branch

07/07 :  Details of Branch Outing, now available!

    Hi All!
Below is the itinerary for the Branch Outing, Saturday 11th September 2010

09:30 - 10:15 Hackney, St. John at Hackney, 10, 16-1-6
10:30 - 11:15 Dalston, St. Mark, 8, 21cwt
11:40 - 12:30 Holloway, St. Mary Magdalene, 8, 17-2-15

Lunch Break : 12:45 - 14:30

15:00 - 15:45 Highgate, St. Anne, 8, 12-3-21
16:15 - 16:45 Gospel Oak, St. Martin, 6, 12 1/2cwt
17:15 - 18:00 Hampstead, Christ Church, 8, 24-0-5

18:00 - Dinner en-route home

Please let Jan Robinson know as soon as possible if you intend to come along in order to hire an appropriate coach.
01525 385420 or jan.tednjantoo@tiscali.co.uk or 32 Blakedown Road, Linslade, Leighton Buzzard, Beds., LU7 2XJ

Numbers quickly please!!!

Jan

Here's a map

07/07 :  ...To follow

   Now the branch newsletter is up, to follow in the block of updates that have been 'hanging on' is new pictures up in the gallery for the striking competition.
Details of the branch outing have just been uploaded which in a virtual way 'HOT OFF THE PRESS' or should the term now be that the keys on my laptop are becoming worn out from all this typing !

Dates have also now been updated and email addresses altered for branch officers in these events. The officers page will be updated in due course. In the meantime please can you have a look at the website and tell me if there are any details that need to be updated! Email: webmaster@cbucks.odg.org.uk


Ryan

04/07 :  A QP for a centenarian

   A QP of Stedman and Plain Bob Doubles was rung today at Wingrave as part of celebrations for a centenarian, Murial. The QP was warmly received by all at the party, especially Murial who was quick to jump to and thank all the ringers personally!

Happy Birthday!

04/07 :  Today, today!

   Sorted the calendar

Hal

04/07 :  Hello, yesterday?

   It seems that we're living in the past on the CBB website in that the dates and calendar has been moved to one day before. Hopefully we'll be able to rectify this problem soon, but whilst it's being sorted, please remember:
1st Tuesday - (6th July) 7/8 Bell Practice. Location: Aylesbury
2nd Saturday - (10th July) Branch Practice. Location: Wingrave
3rd Tuesday - (20th July) 6-bell practice. Location: Stewkley
4th Saturday - (24th July) Advanced Practice. Location: tbc

Cheers,
Ryan

03/07 :  ...and now for...

   News from the Secretary
ODG CONSULTATION ON YOUNG RINGERS – CALL FOR RESPONSES
The consultation is being lead by John Harrison ODG Education Subcommittee Chairman through branch committees. John is very keen to get responses from young people too.

NEXT ACTION: Please respond to members of the CBB committee so we can collate ideas into a response. By end of July please
You are also welcome to respond direct and also offer suggestions about how the Guild could more effectively support its young members.
If in doubt send to Di at secretary@cbucks.odg.org.uk. SEE HERE FOR MORE
Thanks,
Di

03/07 :  A general update

   Hi all,
Various things, including the website going down, have meant that I was not able to post anything over the last week, ignor the post below, unless you are really interested on what happened to the website - all you need to know is that the server company was hacked, all websites on it got affected and that everything is gradually getting back to normal.

So this is the first chance I've had to say thanks to Hal for 'organising' (used loosely) the steam train outing he didn't miss the train, although almost all of us got lost in Cheltenham! There were three rings. The first two towers weren't so nice but the last one was a bit of a treat!
We managed to get back with plenty of time to spare to the Advanced practice which was held at Haddenham this month.

During Hal's outing, the last touch at the Last Tower was specially dedicated for Armed Forces day: A touch of Grandsire Triples.
1 Janice Robinson
2 Susan Gomm
3 Heather Dobson
4 Hal Drysdale
5 Ryan Noble
6 Fred Ellis
7 Mike Dodd
8 Simon Head

More soon,
Ryan

01/07 :  Back! well, just about...

   Well that was an eventful 3 days... after our hosting company got hacked, I've had to re-piece the jigsaw of our website. Sorry if you've missed out on two WHOLE days of messages and news, it was a little out of my control. I've learnt a lot about servers and hosting companies in that time!!

On the up side, at least the hackers were polite and intelligent. One by the name/alias of Christian left a fantastic calling card, it read:

"just a small demonstration of what can be done with a little ingenuity"

This made me smile, how right he/she is(!) - and as Di said to me, "he'd make a fantastic ringer!"

It's pleasing that there are people passionate about things and these hackers were a great example of true 'ingenuity' and patience... it certainly showed me how little I know about computing! I hope they see this and realise that unlike a bank, we hold no real challenge... however, maybe if they looked at the downloads for things like conducting and method ringing, that they might find an interesting field requiring just the skills that they have in abundance. The perfect balance between an old art and a modern science.

Cheers,

Hal

ps. any hackers interested in ringing, please contact me at mouthisi@yahoo.com for your nearest tower (UK, America, Australia or New Zealand) and advice on ringing - I have plenty of time to explain our hobby and no time after work to rebuild a site and communicate with a hosting company to get the sites back up and running, so please don't put me through the hours of rebuilding a site again! Cheers all, hope you enjoy our hobby

24/06 :  Repatriation

   I've received this from Michael Hoey at Princes Risborough, and thought you might be interested.

Best wishes
John

Please Ring Your Bells and Pass it on !!

Here at St Mary's Church in Princes Risborough, we started today to ring our large church bell for 15 minutes at 2pm when some of our boys were being "Repatriated" through Wootton Bassett.

As the Royal British Legion's National President, Lt Gen Sir John Kiszely, said of the regular turn-out in Wootton Bassett: "No one organised it, no one requested it. It happened because it was the right thing to do, and our members stood ready to give these fallen heroes the honour they so richly deserve."

We are hoping others may also like to show respect by ringing their church bells, so if you could forward this to other churches, that would help. There is usually a clear notice about the next Repatriation at the top of the Wootton Bassett Town Council's homepage at:

And the Royal British Legion publishes a report of the Repatriation on its website at:

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/remembrance/repatriation-of-service-personnel


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23/06 :  First's quarter peal

   Congratualations are due to Mandy Cliffe and Paul Bagni, both members of Winlsow tower who achieved some first's!
The quarter peal started off as a 120, and grew to be 10 extents and a 60. We have been attempting 'long' touches at Great Horwood for a little while now when there are only six of us that turn up - we ring until someone else comes, it just happened that this time, no one else came and we managed to get the whole way through, here's the details:

The Great Horwood Society of Change Ringers
Great Horwood, Bucks
St James
Tuesday, 22 June 2010 (16 cwt)
1260 Plain Bob Doubles
1 Mandy Cliffe
2 David Moore
3 Paul Bagni
4 Richard Samways
5 Ryan Noble (C)
6 James Samways

Congratulations to the Mandy on her first quarter and to Paul on his first 'inside' Rung on practice night as there were only 6!

Just another little thing, Paul, please remember the 3/4 DOWN!!



Ryan