Pewsham Belle
Elements for Life
What better way to spend our Annual Meeting than by eating some scrummy chocolate? We were treated to a Yummy Scrummy brownie from...
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Wendy Warman
Mar 7, 2021
A paintalong with the Quirky Bird
The delightful Lynn Barrow aka the Quirky Bird joined us for February's main meeting to guide us through three of her designs. Her story...
Wendy Warman
Feb 18, 2021
And in the wider WI news...
... Lockdown Life has reached the attention of the wider WI recently, with it featuring on Wiltshire WI's website, WI Life's Twitter...
Wendy Warman
Feb 5, 2021
The Forensic Experience
32 Belles plus 20 guests saw 2021 get off to a cracking start on Zoom and our best attended meeting yet, virtual or otherwise. Had we...
Wendy Warman
Jan 20, 2021
Highlights of 2020
It can be tempting to dismiss 2020 as an "annus horribilis", especially as our chances to meet for most of the year have been limited to...
Wendy Warman
Dec 30, 2020
Mandala Day
We had a special treat for December's meeting in the shape of festive hats plus a mandala workshop from the two Anns; Ann Brown from...
Wendy Warman
Dec 26, 2020
Your Lockdown Life Winter Special is here
Stuffed full of your favourite things, stories and photos, plus lots of things to make and do, Lockdown Life is set to chase away those...
Wendy Warman
Nov 30, 2020
Handbags for gladrags
We welcomed Analiza Jones this month via Zoom, who told us all about the process of producing the fine handwoven handbags on display...
Wendy Warman
Oct 29, 2020
The Barnes Mystery Murder
It was the perfect talk for October's darker evenings; who knew Blood, Guts & Gore - True Stories of Murder in Victorian England would be...
Wendy Warman
Sep 30, 2020
The Taxi Driver Poet
This month's group meeting was very different as we were joined by Fiona P in Cambridge and our guest speaker James Haddow, The Taxi...
Wendy Warman
Aug 31, 2020
Escape from Chippenham
It was back to Zoom this month with our virtual world transformed into an Escape Room with the prospect of leaving Chippenham as our...
Wendy Warman
Jul 29, 2020
We went to a garden party...
...with apologies to Ricky Nelson... if you remember the song! Threatening rainclouds and a little light drizzle didn't put us off the...
Wendy Warman
Jul 7, 2020
British Sign Language: A new way of speaking
With Zoom meetings on the go, we've all felt sometimes it can be harder to communicate effectively in this new format. It got us thinking...
Wendy Warman
Jul 6, 2020
Staying in touch
We've been amazed at the success of Zoom for keeping our meetings and clubs going during Lockdown; a quick glance at the diary and it...
Pewsham Belle
Jun 26, 2020
Try Denman at Home
Denman College has closed under Lockdown so it's been heartening to see them trial online workshops via Zoom. Firstly it was cookalongs...
Wendy Warman
Jun 18, 2020
Congratulations Teresa!
It seems fitting somehow that Chippenham's first mayor elected virtually is also a Pewsham Belle! We know Teresa has looked forward to...
Wendy Warman
Jun 10, 2020
From a Day in the Life to Lockdown Life
It all started with an idea and a little slip of paper inserted in the goodies we distributed to you all in early May. "Write about your...
Wendy Warman
May 28, 2020
Feet are really COOL!
We had an amazingly informative talk and demonstration for May's group meeting from TT Holistics. We weren’t expecting such a detailed...
Wendy Warman
Apr 28, 2020
April on Zoom
After our successful AM on Zoom in March, Pewsham Belles has taken to operating as a virtual WI like a duck to water. This was helped by...
Wendy Warman
Mar 29, 2020
Zooming to our AM
We did it! Our first virtual group meeting - attended by 29 members - and we managed to have our AM to boot. Thanks to Sally for guiding...
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