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| Re: I did what? [message #51215 is a reply to message #51213 ] |
Tue, 07 August 2012 07:50   |
Katsheare
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Registered: December 2011
Location: Berks., England |
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| Catherine wrote on Tue, 07 August 2012 10:03 |
| Katsheare wrote on Tue, 07 August 2012 00:01 |
In spite of being very impressed by your quarter peal at the Abbey this weekend, I declined to make tonight my first ring with other people at our tower. I want them to like me, and frelling everything up won't really advance that.
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Are you having private lessons then? I would love some of those! The last time I learned something like this it started with an intensive week and then three three-hour practises a week in competition season. I like that I'm attending practise with the band, but I want to be a more useful part of it!
Cath
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I am indeed having private lessons. The tower foreman and I both have pretty free afternoons, he lives a 7 minute walk from the tower (and if I time it right, I meet up with him just as he's leaving) and is incredibly patient and flexible (especially good for days like today when I had to cancel to stay home with a drippy, sneezy, coughy, dopey bashful-- I mean, ill two-year-old).
I am incredibly lucky. Not only do I get regular one-on-one training, but I get it with someone who's been ringing 50 years and written way loads of training books. If I don't get this it won't be for lack of opportunity.
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| Re: I did what? [message #51216 is a reply to message #51215 ] |
Tue, 07 August 2012 08:03 |
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Catherine
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Registered: July 2012
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| Katsheare wrote on Tue, 07 August 2012 12:50 |
I am indeed having private lessons. The tower foreman and I both have pretty free afternoons, he lives a 7 minute walk from the tower (and if I time it right, I meet up with him just as he's leaving) and is incredibly patient and flexible (especially good for days like today when I had to cancel to stay home with a drippy, sneezy, coughy, dopey bashful-- I mean, ill two-year-old).
I am incredibly lucky. Not only do I get regular one-on-one training, but I get it with someone who's been ringing 50 years and written way loads of training books. If I don't get this it won't be for lack of opportunity.
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That's amazing! I'm jealous (but in a positive, you jammy thing you, kind of way). I'm thinking of asking my friend, whose dad is captain at their tower, if he might be willing to give me a lesson or two. I can't make their practise as I'm emphatically not free at the time, but maybe, on occasion, he might give me some of his time.
Hope the little one feels better!
Cath
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| Re: I did what? [message #51254 is a reply to message #51223 ] |
Wed, 08 August 2012 13:05 |
Katsheare
Messages: 133
Registered: December 2011
Location: Berks., England |
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| AJLR wrote on Tue, 07 August 2012 16:38 |
| Katsheare wrote on Tue, 07 August 2012 12:50 |
I am incredibly lucky. Not only do I get regular one-on-one training, but I get it with someone who's been ringing 50 years and written way loads of training books. If I don't get this it won't be for lack of opportunity.
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Nice bloke, too, I've heard.  It does make a lot of difference, learning from the real experts. The good ones also realise the difference between teenagers learning and adults (older ones, that is) learning.
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He is, and he moved here around the time my partner left, so he can fill in any gaps in how the town has changed. Plus he's an avid walker, so he can give good tips of local walks we may have missed. I stumbled into a very good place indeed.
Two of the people in our tower are a mother and teenage son. The son learned first, but John (ringer extraordinaire) said that the mum learned about twice as quickly. Our brains may become less poreous, but our will and tenacity can make up for that.
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