First thing…
At 8 o’clock this evening LH will go and join the happy band of bellringer’s to ring out the old year with muffled bells in our village church tower. The bells are then unmuffled in preparation for midnight. Muffled bells have a haunting quality about them and I love to hear them. In the meantime the ringers and partners will gather together in one of the cottages for a feast. At quarter to midnight they will return to the tower to begin joyful ringing in of the New Year at the stroke of midnight for half an hour. When ringing is complete they then celebrate with something alcoholic 🙂 They deserve it ❤
Second thing…
I love such serendipitous coincidences; it’s like God smiling on me. Its New Year’s Eve and I’ve just got my 300 th follower. What a lovely little way to end the old year 🙂
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Happy New Year to You & Your’s. I so badly want to live in your village. It just sounds so delightful and full of traditions.
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Aww, thanks Beckie ❤
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PTL! Congrats on your 300th! HNY! God loves you!
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Thank you Gail xx 😚
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🙂
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What a wonderful New Year’s celebration!!! 😀
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Biggest of thanks, and ginormousist of Good luck for the new year. XXX
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Thank you very much. It’s been lovely to meet you this year 🙂 We wish you all the best for 2018 in ginormousist proportions dog 🐶🐕🐾🐩 🐶 🌻🌺🌸
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I fank you all! X
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🌼 💐
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Happy New Year, I agree church bells are magnificent.
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Thank you and happy New Year to you dear Cathy
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Happy New Year, and congratulations on your 300th follower!
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Thank you Kate 🌷💜😚
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It sounds like a wonderful New Year celebration. And how very serendipitous that your 300th follower appeared on New Year’s Eve! Wishing you a very happy 2018! XX
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Thank you Mags. Wishing you and your lovely family a happy 2018 too 🔔
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Oh that sounds like such a cool way to ring in the new year! As kids we used to stand on the deck and bang pots and pans, but bells seem way neater!
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We live right next to the tower so we get the full impact of it 🙂 I’m sure pots and pan bashing as children must have been thrilling 🔔
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It was! We had no close neighbours so could be as loud as we wanted:) Now I think my neighbours would be mighty upset!
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Happy new year, it sounds like a great way to bring in the new year!
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Hi Catherine 🙂 thank you. Happy New Year to you 🍷
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Sounds like a lovely way to celebrate the New Year. Congratulations on your 3ooth.
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Thank you Maggie 🌷💜
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Congrats! The bells would sound wonderful ringing in the cold air. In Melbourne there are only a few bell ringers to do the rounds of the two Cathedrals and the old historic churches in the city. This is a busy time of year for them. Most are over 70 and their leader is in his 30s so they are calling for volunteers as trainees. It would be sad for this tradition to disappear here. Hope your LH had a great time. Happy New Year!
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That would be sad and very difficult to reinstate once gone.
Thank you, yes, LH had a great time. Happy New Year to you both 🌹🌻🌼❤
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