one of the middle sixes^ so we're standing in a queue for pity's sake there's no 'ringing circle' about it.  But then more people showed up and we rang Grandsire triples and . . . oh gods oh gods oh gods. Albert, bless his pointed little head and his ridiculously sweet temper, said to me on leaving, and managed to sound hopeful, See you at practice on Wednesday? Yes.  I'm afraid so.  I may be doomed, but so is the abbey.  At least till they throw me out. ^ Ie of bells.  The controversy rages on about whether method bell ringing is 'music' or not, but method-ringing bells are tuned to the standard western scales, so if you want your methods to sound nice to western ears abbey ringers need to choose a run of bells out of the thirty-six or eighty-nine available that will sound like a coherent and harmonic group. + There are more of them than were in July.  I counted. ++ MMRRGGL LNNCCCH . +++ Although this is not a reliable standard because Gemma is much nicer than I am.