Lots of great ideas are circulating out there, here’s where you’ll find a list of activities people are doing online, or appropriately socially distanced!
NEW
Cafe&Co is back!
3rd Sunday of the month from October 2021.
Village Hall 2-4pm
Free and all welcome
Cake, tea, coffee, squash, games to be played
Get in touch if you need assistance in joining us
Scroll down to see :
Quiz Rounds
Treasure Hunts around the village
Keeping active during #Lockdown (links to online resources for home exercising)
NN11 Nature (link to page with photos taken by you!)
and other news!
Treasure Hunts
Treasure Hunts for both sides of the A361 – pick one or attempt both as an activity for all the family.
Thank-you to Sally for her hard work in compiling this.
Download here :
Byfield Good Neighbours Plant Exchange – still happening
If you’re busy dividing your plants and have some spare, why not leave them at the Plant Exchange, to the right of the Co-op, top of the driveway nextdoor. Take some new options for yourself too!
Made in Byfield –
Find locally made produce to purchase on Made in Byfield.
Previous rounds of the QUIZ
Worried your little grey cells are starting to wander?
Courtesy of the cunning minds behind the Village Hall quizzes, download some brain-teasers here:
Byfield Village Hunt
An outdoor quiz!! Can you find the solutions to these clues – the information is all around Byfield…
Submit your answers to Good Neighbours (email ByfieldGNS@gmail.com or post in at 49 Boddington Rd) and you’ll be entered into the lucky dip prize draw!!
Good Neighbour Willow gave her long hair to the Little Princess Trust
Willow also raised £740 for the charity so they can make a wig out of her hair for a child who has lost theirs through cancer treatment. wwww.littleprincesses.org.uk
Well done Willow! We’re so proud of you!
NN11 Nature
Byfield is beautiful – share your photos with us from your daily exercise jaunt!
Fossil Hunting – the evidence is all around you 🙂
HomeSchooling – see the Kids Zone for helpful resources.
Clapping for our Carers
Heard a racket at 8pm on a Thursday night ? That’s the village showing our appreciation for our carers -join us and make some noise!
Book Club in the Bunker
Get in touch if you fancy reading the same book as some of your neighbours – we’ll work out how to share opinions soon, but in the meantime, we’re accepting suggestions for our first ‘Bunker Book’.
Support independent book-sellers whilst in #Lockdown
There’s lots of indie bookshops willing to ship to you – click on the picture to go to an interactive map
Free Books
A collection of books from University presses that have been made free to access:
Keeping Active during #Lockdown
Free Home Workouts – Strengthening for Seniors
Videos available on YouTube:
Like this ? Sport England has pulled together a big selection of recommended home workouts
And even more :
Northamptonshire Sport has its
own whole website for you.
What are you up to with your friends, near and far?
Let us know – you could inspire Byfield to do their own version, or find new friends to be ‘remote, together’ with !!