Sunday 1 January
9st 3 (but post-Christmas), alcohol units 14 (but effectively covers 2 days as 4 hours of party was on New Year's Day), calories 5,424.
11.45pm Ugh. First day of New Year has been day of horror. Having skulked at home all day, hoping hangover would clear, I eventually gave up and set off for the Turkey Curry Buffet far too late.
When I got to the Alconburys' and rang their entire-tune-of-town-hall- clock-style doorbell I was still in a strange world of my own — nauseous, vile-headed, acidic.
'Bridget! Happy New Year! Just about to start without you.'
In our first extract Bridget meets handsome, divorced Mark Darcey at the dreaded annual Turkey Curry Buffet