On a warm and sunny day, at New Mills hall near Manchester several North west Hand bell groups got together for a massed ring hosted by the Kinder Ringers.  All had a great day and even non-bell ringers were made welcome.  Thanks to the Kinder Ringers, spare bells were made available for the non-ringers to join in and try their hand at ringing.  One massed ringing piece was Old MacDonald had a farm.  Whilst this piece was easy to play the ringers were not let off lightly as hey had to sing as well as ring the piece.  To make matters worse the groups were split up and one half rang whilst the other half sang.

All agreed this made for an interesting ring indeed!