Exeter Branch Practice with a difference!

Monday 26th September 2011 iwas the Exeter branch practice at Pinhoe. A good number of people turned up and soon the bells were up and the practice began.

During the first touch the lights started to dim and after 2 minutes all the lights went off and everyone was plunged into darkness. The ringing stopped with no incidents in the pitch black.

Luckily several people had brought torches because Pinhoe Church is so out of the town that there are no street lights and we couldn’t see a thing! Rob then had the idea of lighting some candles around the church so that we could see where we were going. We still couldn’t see to ring then a few people had the idea to tie a few torches to the spider in the middle of the ringing room so we could at least see the ropes!

As soon as the torches were fixed everyone got to ring again and the practice went on as if nothing had happened even though we couldn’t really see that well!!

The practice was coming to an end so we rang the bells down but then a strange thing happened...

As soon they had chimed the bells for the final time the lights came on and we could all see again!

It was definetly a practice with a difference

Amy Gill

 

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