Gypsy - in that same cold winter, the vicar cancelled Evensong one evening, and spent the afternoon calling on all the parishioners to tell them not to come, but forgot to tell the bellringers and choir!! We were more than happy to have dragged him out of his nice warm house and down the hill to the church that was so cold it would have kept a side of beef for a month..... serve him right!

Would have cheerfully set fire to the vicar that night, although not the bells. Vicars might burn quite nicely (there's a thread creep for the pagans.....) but bells don't.

LTS