Sarah

Linguistics, campanology, occasssssional cooking and cycling, and hours wasted on the Internet. Also I'm a hedgehog.

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

Rang at Little Wittenham this evening cos someone told me it was a really hard tower to grab cos they hardly ever ring. Yeah, there’s good reason for that! They’re awkward to handle and sound bloody awful. Still, the people were nice. It was an experience.

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

Rang York 6 this evening. It fried my brain. And if anyone’s saying ‘it’s just Cambridge above the treble and London below’, take that ‘just’ and insert it way up into your rectum!

[EveryDoctor @EveryDoctorUK]

🚨We sent an email last night to our mailing list, naming the MPs with the strongest financial links to the private healthcare sector since the last General Election in 2019. Buckle up, because this is shocking (to us)🚨
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[Sarah @Barnie1980]

Asked tonight if I can call touches. ‘Well, sort of … some basic ones … if I can think about it for a while first … and people don’t go too wrong in the method … then maybe …’
Unsurprisingly, wasn’t asked to call any touches ☺️
We rang some pretty okay Stedman though.

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

Finally back ringing. Tonight’s highlights, turning the tenor in to Cambridge, thinking I’d tweaked my shoulder when I’d actually just twisted my bra strap, and a lower that was better struck than anything we’d rung all evening 😁

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

I’ve also spent a lot of this afternoon explaining to non-ringing friends (and my fiancé!) why this is cool 🤓

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

https://t.co/fHzosGdoiI

https://t.co/mlOXPYtzJU
I’m so happy and excited. Never had a footnote before (except, like, first QP etc). Can’t wait to start planning the wedding and our whole future together 🥰

[Kaveh Solhekol @SkyKaveh]

Gary Lineker suspended by the BBC for upsetting the Conservatives because he stood up for some of the most vulnerable people in the world. The same BBC whose chairman gave the Conservatives £400,000 before helping to arrange an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

First quarter of 2023! 😁
We forgot to switch the lights on in the ringing chamber so it got a bit gloomy towards the end. But still very enjoyable to ring. Hopefully I’ll get a few more in this year.
https://t.co/N6WC47lrJN

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

@AnneTThomas

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

@AnneTThomas @tiedbell “‘Down’ refers to the direction in which the bell is rung, which is typically upward.”
Sure, that’s more or less how I do it 🤷‍♀️

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

🚨NEW: Hundreds of thousands of teachers will strike in England and Wales. Why?

📉Real pay down by more than 20% since 2010

📖 Devastating austerity cuts to school budgets

👩‍🏫 Stress, exhaustion and unbearable workloads amid a retention crisis

RT if you're with our teachers 👊

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

Christmas morning ringing back at the tower where I first learnt to ring several decades ago. And what is this total abomination of a method?!
Merry Christmas all xx

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

@RebeccaBanner2 Ooh, I’d never heard of Happyland but they do look really cute. Thanks!

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

What are good Christmas presents for a 1-yr old and a 3 (or4?) yr old? The older one liked Hey Dugee about 6 months ago… I am SO clueless about kids. #worstauntever

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

@Ralph_Hapschatt @theabingdontaxi Haha, definitely a good idea. I only see these kids 2 or 3 times a year so thinking of them rocking out on a drum kit for hours and hours doesn’t fill me with dread at all!

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

1253 Stedman Triples https://t.co/oYpolqaTjZ
The Stedman was rung. Still not a fan of the method, but it was more enjoyable than I thought it would be :)

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

I appear to have agreed to ring in a quarter of Stedman Triples, aka my least favourite method, which I haven’t rung for years. There’s no way this will end well. Fingers crossed I can grab the tenor!

[Sarah @Barnie1980]

Brilliant day helping on the Steeple Aston course today. I’ll admit I do kind of miss ringing.

[CWU @CWUnews]

Tomorrow 115,000 brave postal workers will strike and take on the multi millionaire bosses once again.

They kept the country connected during the pandemic and now need your support.

RT if you stand with your postie.

#StandByYourPost