Simon Bond's Ringing Records

First quarter peal : 1. Circled the tower: 6. Rung for evensong.

First quarter: 6. Birthday compliment to Simon 'Big Man' Roberts.

First inside: 2. A farewell to Emma, returning to Americaland after an extremely productive year with the OUS. "Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds: At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night." J Milton

First inside: 2. During the flood of Oxford; RIP the Royal Blenheim carpet.

1st in method: 2. Half-muffled for Remembrance.

First on 10: 10. 100th quarter: 7. 100th on the bells and circled the tower as conductor: 1.

First inside: 2. First as conductor.

First Surprise: 2.

Most methods to a quarter peal: 2. In memory of the Millcombe House shrew.

First of Surprise Major: 2. Rung by a Lincoln College practice night band.

First Stedman: 3. Rung by a practice night band.

First in method: 3 & 5. Diminished 10-bell practice.

First in method and with this surname: 3. First on eight as conductor.

First on 10 inside: 6. 200th quarter: 2. 150th quarter: 3.

First spliced major and most spliced: 3.

At the start of the OS trip to the Netherlands.

Half-muffled for Remembrance.

Most methods: 3. In anticipation of the conductor's 30th birthday.

First of Royal: 4 & 6.

On the centenary of the death of Private James Braithwaite Bond of the 13th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, great-great-uncle of the conductor, who died on 10th August 1917 during the Battle of Passchendaele.

First Spliced Surprise Major: 3. Most Spliced Surprise Major: 5, 6, 7, 8 and as conductor.

A 30th birthday compliment to the tenor ringer, rung by a Lincoln College practice night band. Katherine Stonham would like everyone to know that this was really quite good.

By a band of 30 year olds placed in age order. First as a 30 year old: 1. Probably last as a 30 year old: 6. Most minor methods: 2. Millennial A: -3-4-2-3-4.5 le 16

On the conductor's 31st birthday. Circled the tower: 3.

First in method: 3 & 6. Circled the tower to quarters: 4. 1/2: Pickling.

First in method: 4, 5 & 7. 2/2: Pickled.

Remembering Clive.

First on 12: 5. Most metal: 12.

First Bristol as conductor. Rung in celebration of the 65th wedding anniversary of Gordon and Joyce Fray and Gordon's 90th birthday.

Half-muffled in memory of all those we love but see no longer. The ringing followed an All Souls' Day performance of Fauré's Requiem in the College chapel.

First of Maximus: 6, and as conductor. Congratulations to Hannah and Courtney!

On Good Friday, the bells fully muffled with the tenor open at backstroke.

50th quarter peal and first in method: 6 In anticipation of the wedding of Richard Puckey and Caroline Barton, sister of Dorothy Hall.

First of Spliced Royal: 3, 5, 6.