Summer Festival.
14th September sees the Guild’s Summer Festival. It will be held in the Daventry branch and the arrangements are as follows:
- 2:00 Ringing at Everdon
- 3:00 Ringing at Badby
- 4:00 Contest and tea at Byfield, then meeting at 6pm & evening ringing
Team entries to Master, Simon Dixon by 7th September, draw to be made in advance.
Names for tea to Alison Buck on Secretary@daventry.pdg.org.uk
The rules allow for a youth team to enter, and Justin Baker is trying to augment the team that rang at the RWNYC last month. If any of your young ringers are interested in forming part of the team, please get in touch with him. ringing_master@daventry.pdg.org.uk He’s also trying to organise the grownups of the Daventry branch. I wonder which is the harder task!
Guild 100th Anniversary
Outing & Picnic at Rutland Water
Looking forward, the next 100th anniversary event is the Outing and picnic on 10th August around Rutland Water. Towers and timings are as follows:
| 1:00-2:00 | Ashwell | LE15 7LP | 6 |
| 2:10-2:55 | Cottesmore | LE15 7BW | 6 |
| 3:10-3:50 | Hambleton | LE15 8TH | 5 |
| 4:05-4:35 | Lyndon | LE15 8TU | 4 |
| 4:40-5:20 | Edith Weston | LE15 8EY | 6 |
Afterwards we’ll move to Rutland Water Beach Car Park, Sykes Lane LE15 8QL. For this part of the occasion, please bring your own sandwiches etc. I’ve been rummaging and have found Granny’s very 1950s picnic basket, which might make an appearance. There is a play area, take-away café (which may be closed soon after we get there), and toilets. Parking costs £2 per hour, and the car park stays open until 8pm.
As a large group, we need to let the site know how many are coming, so if you think you might like to join us, please let us know on centenary@pdg.org.uk.
Stanwick Lakes day out.
Our last event was the Day out at Stanwick Lakes. It was good to see so many people coming, truing the various ringing related activities and socialising. The picnic benches were populated by most of the day. Even the weather held off, with just a few drops of rain during the day. There’s a write up on the Guild & diocese websites. https://pdg.org.uk/latest-news/guild-day-out-turns-out-well & https://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/aboutus/news/centenary-celebrations-continue-with-a-day-out-at-stanwick-lakes-.php. It was something quite different for the Guild to undertake. If anyone wants to borrow some of the publicity materials. the wombel, or the competitions, please get in touch.
Centenary Dinner
To be held Saturday 12th October in Kettering Park Spa Hotel (off the A14) at 6:30 for 7:15 pm. Tickets are £45 per person and are available from centenary@pdg,org.uk. Menu choices will be shared shortly. Be good to see you there in your posh togs!
CCCBR News
The President’s latest blog. https://cccbr.org.uk/2024/07/27/presidents-blog-94/
The CCCBR meeting is in September. https://cccbr.org.uk/about/annual-meetings/2024-annual-meeting/ If anyone has any comments they can be passed on to your Guild Representatives. Mail them on cc_reps@pdg.org.uk
As requested by the Guild’s AGM , the Guild has written to the CCCBR to raise our disappointment in the way the Old Black Lion project was ultimately handled.
Dates for the Diary
Guild Outing and Picnic Saturday 10th August 1:00 ringing at towers round Rutland Water, Picnic, 5:30Rutland Water Beach Car Park, Sykes Lane LE15 8QL.
Guild 10 bell Saturday 14th September 10:30 am. Daventry
Guild Summer Festival Saturday 14th September 2:00 Everdon. 3:00 Badby, 4:00 Byfield contest & tea 6:00meeting followed by evening ringing.
And Branch events.
Rutland Branch 8 bell Practice Thursday 15th August 7:30 Uppingham
Daventry: Branch Practice, Saturday 17th August 3:00 Staverton, 6:30 Hellidon
Culworth Branch Practice Saturday 17th August, 7:30 Greatworth
Thrapston Branch Practice Thursday 22nd August 2:30 Wadenhoe
Culworth Branch Practice Saturday 31st August, 7:30 King’s Sutton
Rutland Branch Practice Wednesday 4th September 7:30 Cottesmore
Thrapston Branch Practice Friday 6th September7:30 Islip
Guilsborough Branch Practice Saturday 7th September 3:00 Marston Trussell, 6:00 Welford
And finally.
I always have an eye open for a book that features bells or ringing in the title or plot. I’m hoping, one day, to find something to rival The Nine Tailors. The title “The Bells of Little Woodford” by Catherine Jones caught my eye in the library recently. It starts with a broken stay that gives rise to a broken leg and a frame inspection shows that the base beams are unstable, so ringing is stopped. The fund raising is complicated by the incomers to the village who are anti sound pollution. I can’t recommend it as a guide on how to manage an accident, a fund raising activity or a noise complaint. The bells really serve as backdrop to the village goings on. In the afterword, the author didn’t know anything of ringing before she started her research. To do her credit, it’s not wildly inaccurate, I’m just not sure it’s a very good advertisement for ringing. See what you think.
See you on Saturday! Fingers crossed for nice weather.
Helen
Peterborough Branch 