Since I am involved in teaching for the millennium I am out ringing almost every night but I occasionally enjoy a night off. Indeed, I was free one recent Wednesday and decided to go to the practice at the rough eight of Saint Myfault, a ground floor ring, 20cwt in B. The tower captain is none other than the Great Blicestershire Association president, Bishop Sphinga. Now, the bishop likes his pints of Gruttock's Old Gronker (6.5%) in the Cope and Strickle (landlord Sandy Clay who rings at Over Pulling) but Old Gronker is well known for addling brains. The bishop always starts to make wild claims:
The bishop started with this tale; that of his first peal as conductor. This peal was of Lincolnshire Surprise Major and he had used the well-known 4-part Cambridge Surprise Major composition of 5056 by C. Middleton. The bishop remembered that he had particularly enjoyed hearing Queens towards the end. At this point, the bishop suddenly remembered that he once called a fine peal of 5088 8-spliced Surprise Major, and which was commemorated by a peal board in Saint Goodenough's. The peal board only recorded the fact that the composition was a regular 6-part, but he also recalled that it contained 148 combination roll-ups and all the work. After explaining this, the bishop was ready for his next pint and so he went to the bar once again, returning with two more pints of Old Gronker.
He then remembered some Minor methods that he had once invented and rung. The first was a Delight method which had Cambridge Places and the second was a simple right place Plain method. The bishop told me about these methods and then went on to show me how he had composed an extent of 1260 changes for the Plain method (which he had named 'Saint Goodenough Imperial Bob Minor'). He explained that, to prove any touch of any Plain method, it was only necessary to prove half of the parts by writing down the lead heads and checking that they are all different.
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