What a great stage 3 Sheffield to Barnsley. Huge crowds and a nice compact route meaning fans could see it in multiple locations. Thanks to everyone who was up for joining me hooting horns, ringing bells and doing a bit of a dance to the unashamedly loud playlist from my speaker in my panniers. Even the cows in the fields stayed close to enjoy it. Here’s a taste of the day – from Roper Hill, Sheffield (close to the start) and North Lane, Hoylandswaine, 25km from the finish. Plus a bonus visit to the drystone wall bike of Le Tour de France 2014 by Mr Helliwell’s farm on the Hoylandswajne bypass.

Just in case you don’t have any bells easily to hand. Click here and push the volume. Like massive #hny

Click the photo to hear the bells of St Ia’s Parish Church, striking noon. Heard from The Barbara Hepworth Garden, St Ives.

Thank you to the bands at Phillack, Towednack and Gulval for welcoming me to join them for Sunday service ringing at the start of our half term holiday in St Ives, Cornwall. With ringing at 8.45, 9.45 and 10.30 you can ring the full half hour at each church and still be back in St Ives with an hour to spare for browsing the Cornish pasties before lunch. When they popped a bottle of white wine on the stairs up to the belfry at Phillack I wondered for a moment what the plan was, but it turns out the stairs are the “wine chiller” ready for practice night. Towednack looked to have had red at their last practice 🙂 A touch of grandsire was very nice at Gulval and the colours of the camelias in the churchyard were breathtaking. Thank you. I had a fabulous morning ringing with you all.

Potentially the earliest known prediction of Le Tour de France coming to Yorkshire was by Barbara Hepworth with Discs in Echelon, 1935. Their duality and separation evoking both the beauty of the bicycle yet the ferocity of the crosswind, in an organic and fluid form @Tate_StIves