But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.