Cyber Crime is the topic at this month’s meeting of the North Bovey Belles WI with lots of interesting tips to help us navigate the murky world of online security which is impossible to avoid nowadays. So ladies, do join us this Thursday 9th February at 7.30pm in the Parish Hall.  New members always welcome.  

Join us on Thursday 10th February to travel back in time discovering 12,000 years on Dartmoor.  Dr Lee Bray who is Dartmoor National Park’s archaeologist will be at the Parish Hall at 7.30pm. New members always welcome. Before coming along would all attendees please take all relevant Covid precautions including a lateral flow test. Thank you.      

What could be a more quintessentially English way of spending a summer’s evening than to go for a pleasant walk followed by a picnic and then hearing some Dartmoor Tales by Emma Cunnis, Dartmoor’s Daughter.  Join us on Thursday 10th June in North Bovey – new members always welcome.  For details contact us on northboveybelles@devonwi.org.uk or ring 07793 555572.

This Thursday 11th March is the North Bovey Belles WI monthly meeting on Zoom  at 7.30pm and we are talking chocolate 😋😋. How to temper chocolate and how to make lots of lovely treats.    We do hope you can join us and don’t forget – you don’t have to turn your camera on if you prefer to participate incognito – give it a go, you might enjoy it!! New members always welcome – email northboveybelles@devonwi.org.uk or ring Sue on 07919 623559.

For the February monthly meeting of the North Bovey Belles WI, the speaker was Dr Rebecca Alegbo and was held on Zoom.  She talked to us about “Coping in Challenging Times”.  Dr Rebecca is a part time lecturer of psychology at the University of Exeter and runs a social enterprise called Towards Training, which is a business for the benefit for the community. She trains and teaches people skills in a different way to improve their wellbeing. The restrictions imposed on us during the latest Covid pandemic have created a lot of anxiety and created a barrier for getting help.  In the past it has been suggested that one should…

Pineapple bottle for pina coladas, a vase for winter flowers, table lamp containing miniature lights, salt cellar and a container for cat’s Dreamy Treats were just some of the ideas the ladies brought to the WI meeting on Zoom for their contribution to the upcycling competition.  Because of the innovative variety presented it was decided that everybody was a winner.  Well done ladies. In 1954 the British Women’s Institute started a national anti-litter campaign called “Keep Britain Tidy”.  67 years later we are still reminded to do the same.  This is the kind of influence the WI has had and still has in our modern world. Every year each WI member has…

How do you cut the magician’s rope in various places and yet it still stays in one piece? How do you stick a knife right through the middle of the spoon head (inside a yellow bag) and it turns into a fork?  How did we play noughts and crosses in such a random way and yet our WI logo came out together in the right format?  It’s magic! Wayne Trice entertained us in the December meeting of the North Bovey Belles WI meeting with a natural sense of humour and slight of hand. Wayne has been interested in magic from the age of 8, watching The Five Minute Magic Show on…

Calling all WI members to join us for our interactive Zoom meeting on Thursday night at 7.30pm.  Wayne will be showing us some Magic in a Trice – entertaining us and showing us how to do a few magic tricks of our own.  Bring along a pack of cards,  elastic bands and some 2p and 10p pieces. New members always welcome.  Contact us on northboveybelles@devonwi.org.uk or Sue on 07919 623559.