Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

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.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.