Eventually, I Manage To Cheer Mum Up

I'd Been Working On The [bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries Material] For Years, First, In The Independent Newspaper Columns And Then In The Various Versions Of The Movie Scripts.

Bridget Jones' Baby, At Heart Is About The Gap Between How You Expect Life To Turn Out And How It Actually Does.

Reminded Of Favorite Poem By Wendy Cope Which Goes: At Christmas Little Children Sing And Merry Bells Jingle. The Cold Winter Air Makes Our Hands And Faces Tingle. And Happy Families Go To Church And Cheerily They Mingle, And The Whole Business Is Unbelievably Dreadful If You're Single.

It Occurred To Me That If Africa Needed Us, Sometimes We Needed Africa A Great Deal More.

Oh God. Valentine's Day Tomorrow. Why? Why? Why Is (the) Entire World Geared To Make People Not Involved In Romance Feel Stupid When Everyone Knows Romance Does Not Work Anyway. Look At (the) Royal Family. Look At Mum And Dad.