The next draw is due at the 10.30am Coffee Morning on Saturday 3rd April.

The Quiddenham Children’s Hospice, the PCC and The Friends of Bawdeswell Church are holding a joint fund raising event at Bawdeswell Hall, by kind permission of Mr and Mrs D Gurney, on Monday 7th June at 7.30pm.

The evening’s entertainment will consist of a cabaret 'Broadway comes to Bawdeswell' staring  Susie Turner and Annette Jude. An evening not to be missed, packed full of all the best known musical theatre numbers!
A Hog Roast supper and Pimms reception will be included in your ticket price.
The tickets will be £15 each.

If you would like tickets for this event please apply to Peter Jervis or James Lilwall at Church View next to Bawdeswell Church or telephone them on  688499. 
 

EVENTS 2004

 “BROADWAY COMES TO BAWDESWELL” 
Monday June 7th
in marquee at Bawdeswell Hall

HANDEL CONCERT & BIRTHDAY SUPPER
 Saturday 17th July

CEILIDH & HARVEST SUPPER 
Saturday 18th September
The Norfolk Wherries

CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL & CONCERT – 11,12 Dec

This is held on the first Thursday of the month in bar of The Old Workhouse. The next meeting will be on April 1st. New members are welcome.
March’s meeting was well attended and we were pleased to see some new faces.

Book Choices :
 Current books: ‘Cold Mountain’ by Charles Frazier
    ‘Big Stone Gap’ by Adriana Trigiana
These will be discussed at the April meeting.

Next month:  ‘Star of the Sea’ by Joseph O’Connor
    ‘Not the End of the World’ by Kate Atkinson
 

Book Review: ‘Life of Pi’ by Yan Martell
This book won the Man Booker Prize in 2002. When I first heard of this book it was not one that I thought would interest me. I am therefore very glad that the Book Club chose it as I think it is one of the best books that I have read. It is a beautifully written story and I had difficulty putting it down.

At the start of the novel we are introduced to Piscine Molitor Patel known to all as Pi. He is a gentleman who has studied religious studies and zoology at university and it is his story that we are to be told.

The story begins with a description of Pi’s childhood in Pondicherry, India. It contains some amusing anecdotes relating to his name, his decision to be a Muslim, a Hindu and a Christian at the same time and life at his father’s zoo.

The main part of the story tells us what happens when, after the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, sixteen year old Pi ends up in a solitary lifeboat bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. His only companions are a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Soon only Pi and Richard Parker (the tiger) remain. The extraordinary tale of how they survive months at sea begins. Just as Pi has day to day existence under control and you begin to relax a Frenchman briefly appears on the scene and a mysterious island inhabited only by meerkats. 

The story is incredible but somehow made plausible. You can almost feel yourself in the boat able to reach out and touch Richard Parker’s fur. It is a most original story.