Piers Myers of Christchurch Isle of Dogs after five one and half hour 1:1 handling lessons at last week’s MCA&LDG summer school on the dumb bells at Kensington, followed by an hour and half on Monday afternoon getting used to the real bells at Christchurch and practicing on the simulator, and a further hour yesterday evening.

He’s ringing the sixth to rounds on 6. Piers and his wife Bo (who’s a little camera shy) can certainly hear their bells, although now that they have something extra to concentrate a few handling faults have crept back in. Ready to try ringing with a real band, but also need to continue with 1:1 lessons to sort out the bent arms at handstroke and that left hand.