Page 158 - Bridget Jones's Diary - by Helen FIELDING

Monday 12 June

9st 1, alcohol units 3 (v.g.), cigarettes 13 (g.), minutes spent trying to
programme video 210 (poor).

7 p.m. Mum just rang. 'Oh, hello, darling. Guess what? Penny Husbands-
Bosworth is on Newsnight!!!'

'Who?'

'You know the Husbands-Bosworths, darling. Ursula was in the year above
you at the High School. Herbert died of leukaemia . . . '

'What?'

'Don't say "what", Bridget, say "pardon". The thing is I'm going to be out
because Una wants to see a slide show of the Nile so Penny and I wondered if
you'd record it . . . Ooh, better dash - there's the butcher!'

8 p.m. Right. Ridiculous to have had video for two years and never to have been

able to make it record anything. Also is marvellous FV 67 HV VideoPlus.
Simple matter of following operating instructions, locating buttons, etc., certain.