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I hope Nick that you're not suggesting bell ringing isn't 'glamorous'? ;-)

My experience of the Air Cadets was watching 20 or so oiks stretching what was essentially a giant elastic band to power a light glider piloted by the senior NCO on a flight over a cricket pitch. Not the height of glamour, especially if you were one of the oiks!

On the poster it's rather too full of negatives rather than positives for my liking.

I can't remember when it was suggested to me that Sunday ringing was an expectation, but as I'm essentially using the bells for 'free' for an activity I enjoy, that didn't seem too high a demand to me.

Obviously young people might not be in a position for various reasons to ring every Sunday, but I don't think an expectation to ring at least some Sundays is unreasonable.

As we came out of lock down, I started a bell ringers Facebook page to try to raise the local profile. As well as sharing to the church FB page, I selectively share onto the larger local groups.

However, it's a long slow process to start from scratch.

At the risk of a bit of self promotion: Caterham Valley bell ringers

A couple of issues I could do with some instruction in:

• how to use social media effectively (not original I know)
• how to make contacts and network with the local community

I slightly off topic question, but related, is there a standard measure for the height (length) of a sally?

Is training a potential separate category?

That sounds like a great event to join in with, I look forward to more details.

On a proof reading point, I wonder if 'Jund" could be corrected?