Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[Katie]

I will be, along with my dad and brother and the rest of the band, ringing on Christmas morning (used to do Christmas eve, but I will be out in town) with the bellringers! I've been ringing since I was about 10/11, as my dad started me going, and I ended up quite enjoying it. Keepin' it in the family eh!

 

www.crostonbells.cjb.net - The local 8 bell tower, where I ring. We also ring in the neighbouring villages.

 

Just thought it's quite an interesting topic as many of you will probably hear the bells throughout Christmas, and also on Sunday mornings/practice nights etc.

Does anyone else have unusual hobbies, and are there any more ringers out there?!

[Karen & co.]

Hi, I started to ring the bells when I was still at home, about 15/16 years old, in the church I later got married in! I don't think I could do it anymore, but used to enjoy it, and still enjoy hearing them, especially at Christmas.

 

Karen x

[buffie]

I love the sound of the bells and I will think of you on christmas morning

 

Merry Christmas

 

BBx

[Lesley]

We only have occasional bell-ringers now, at our Church but i do love to hear them. We used to live three doors away from the Church and when we still had a regular team of bell-ringers they practised on Tuesday evenings - we used to refer to them as the Clangers

 

Have a lovely time on Christmas morning Katie.

[Guest]

Friends of ours at church ring. They are thrilled to find they have enough people this year to ring a full circle tomorrow night. They'll also ring on Christmas morning and always ring in the New Year. The tower is at St John's Redhill, Surrey and they practise on Thursdays.

[The Dogmother]

I'm not a church person, but love to hear the bells on Sunday morning. They practice other tunes during the week too.

[Katie]

Were they a bit crash bang whallop Lesley!

Managed to get a ring of 8 Christmas morning at Croston, and then a ring of 10 at Leyland. Was good stuff!

[Lesley]

Were they a bit crash bang whallop Lesley!

Managed to get a ring of 8 Christmas morning at Croston, and then a ring of 10 at Leyland. Was good stuff!

 

Just a bit Katie - and I think you are far too young to remember the childrens TV programme called the Clangers? It seemed apt at the time

[Katie]

I don't remember the Clangers, but have seen them on those '100 greatest children's tv shows'. You know the shows that go on for about 3 hours as they do the countdown...!

Did they do something with dustbin lids and make whirring noises

[The Dogmother]

YOU CAN'T REMEMBER THE CLANGERS!

 

They were the best; there's a whole website devoted to them, there's even a knitting pattern for making a clanger. If you ever get a chance, then you must see it.

[Lesley]

If I remember rightly, Katie is only 17? - no chance of her remembering the Clangers!

 

There is a DVD as well Clare

[The Dogmother]

If I remember rightly, Katie is only 17? - no chance of her remembering the Clangers!

 

 

Ahhh that explains it then

 

There is a DVD as well Clare

 

Brilliant - will have to search for it now

[Lesley]

There is a DVD as well Clare

 

Brilliant - will have to search for it now

 

You can borrow Carl's

[Cate in NZ]

It's the knitting pattern that tickles me Can you really knit a clanger .. and would anyone really want to

What about the Soup Dragon, can you knit him too?

To this day hubby can still have a great clanger conversation with himself

[Lesley]

 

Perhaps he should come and talk to Carl ? - or my sister?

 

(Kate should be the right age as well )

[Cate in NZ]

Sometimes I get more sense out of him when he's talking Clanger

[Lesley]

 

Perhaps we'd get more sense out of them if we talked Clanger?

[The Dogmother]

There is a DVD as well Clare

 

Brilliant - will have to search for it now

 

You can borrow Carl's

 

Thanks for that Lesley; would you mind bringing it to Kew, or would it be easier to post?

 

It'll keep me quiet for hours.

 

On that vein, has anyone seen Narnia? It was fab - pure childhood escapism, Rosie really loved it, almost as much as Phil and I

[Guest]

Yes we saw Narnia just before Christmas and thoroughly enjoyed it. We'd just read the book to our youngest so were well up on all the details. It kept to the book really well. I hope the box-office numbers have been good as I would like to see the other books too. I love the Magician's Nephew.

[The Dogmother]

Yes, I understand that they are planing to make a complete series of films of the books a la Harry Potter. So we can look forward to seeing more of them.

[Guest]

Only if enough people went to see this one, so I hope they did!